02/27/06 Tip of the Week. Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Tip 2 – Get everyone on the same page.
February 27, 2006
Be sure your team understands how SOX fits into the IT environment. You should make sure the IT group is involved from the beginning of the project and is updated and included in the review of business processes that rely on IT systems and infrastructure... Read more...
Wikipedia
February 26, 2006
I've been spending some time with Wikipedia and am now watching the following articles. Am mulling over possible contributions. There are many gaps and opportunities to add some value here... CMDB Configuration management Data management Data... Read more...
Aging workforce: one more argument for config/portfolio management?
February 25, 2006
The looming mass retirement of baby boomers has many HR professionals increasingly concerned. IBM has started devoting considerable attention to this, e.g. http://www-1.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/ibvstudy/bcs/a1009193?cntxt=a1005263. This may be... Read more...
Valuing applications
February 25, 2006
It's easy to put a value on physical computers. It's much harder to put a value on an enterprise's applications, but these are more significant by far. Two interesting developments I noted while perusing some literature on the plane: The Economist magazine... Read more...
HBR Article: IT & Board
February 25, 2006
The Harvard Business Review published a most interesting article in October 2005; a response to it led me to track down the original. By Richard Nolan and F. Warren McFarlan, it's entitled "Information Technology and the Board of Directors."... Read more...