IT alignment 150-cite literature review
July 4, 2008
A gold mine, if you’re curious what the academics are up to regarding "IT-business alignment": http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/journal/v22/n4/fig_tab/2000111t1.html#figure-title Read More →
Helge Scheil on ERP4IT
July 2, 2008
As usual, I’m behind in my reading. Helge Scheil posted this opinion piece to CIO magazine in February, specifically referencing the moniker "ERP4IT." While I always appreciate the publicity, want to make a couple clarifications: - Not... Read more...
Catching up on my journals 2
July 2, 2008
Harvard Business Review July-August 2008: "Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference" by McAfee & Brynjolfsson, is an interesting read, showing that turbulence and performance spread are much greater in high-IT industries,... Read more...
Catching up on my journals
July 2, 2008
Probably my first exposure to the concept of a "professional journal" was M*A*S*H; medical journals figured in a number of the episodes. I remember in particular Hawkeye berating Frank Burns for not keeping up in his reading. So, I have a... Read more...
Wiles and Vambenepe on CMDBf.
May 28, 2008
interesting perspectives on CMDBf from Van Wiles here. Key quote: "can you market these adapters without a common data model"? That is the rub, as I've been saying. However, one thing his post points out is that a market space for third party... Read more...
Eclipse open-source CMDBf-based CMDB
May 28, 2008
here. Read More →
Services and applications
May 22, 2008
Like this post Just What is an ITIL Service Anyway? by IT Skeptic (Rob England): "An IT service is the availability and/or consumption of a type of transaction running on technology." Agree 100%. Where do transactions live? Inside applications.... Read more...
ERP for IT - my views
May 22, 2008
Just to set the record straight for my friend the IT Skeptic: Not sure I agree with "ERP for IT" either. Paid too many dues back in the day as an ERP architect for Accenture, where I saw the good and the bad of it. Here are some quotes from... Read more...
A new framework for IT management: portfolio lifecycles
May 18, 2008
Frameworks, frameworks, everywhere... ITIL, CMM, COBIT, etc., etc., ... and yet none of them satisfy. All have nagging gaps and flaws: - ITIL's weakness with respect to production applications, the primary "service" offered by the modern IT... Read more...
A personal matter
April 12, 2008
On my personal blog. Read More →