While commonplace today, only a few years ago social media technology, such as blogs, was strictly the province of hard-core geeks. But now, grandmothers, public relations flacks, and teenagers have joined the digerati, posting their political views, their cookie recipes, and their innermost thoughts on the newest boy band, and sharing these posts with friends, family, and the wide, wide world.

Although text mining technology has been available for years, its use has mainly been relegated to intelligence agencies, news providers, wire services, and other organizations whose business primarily centers on the handling or processing of large volumes of textual information.

Although text mining technology has been available for years, its use has mainly been relegated to intelligence agencies, news providers, wire services, and other organizations whose business primarily centers on the handling or processing of large volumes of textual information.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In our next issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.

Corporate project portfolios are routinely challenged in many organizations. Executives will often see projects that are late and overbudget, deliver poor value, and have less-than-satisfied business sponsors and end users. In this Executive Report by Sanjiv Augustine and Roland Cuellar, we offer suggestions on how to combine Agile project delivery at the project level with Lean thinking at the portfolio level in order to significantly increase project throughput, financial investment performance, and business sponsor satisfaction.

Corporate project portfolios are routinely challenged in many firms. Looking across the portfolio, the executive will often see projects that are late and overbudget, deliver poor value, and have less-than-satisfied business sponsors and end users.

In a 2004 Cutter IT Journal article, Methodology Object Management (MOM) was introduced to fit an entire range of software development processes -- from the "heavy" traditional waterfall approach to "light" agile development methods [2]. MOM's basic tenets were developed for IT organizations that have multiple development cultures but aspire to manage the overall development structure consistently -- regardless of the software technique used in the various business lines.

If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

-- Thomas Aquinas

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

-- George Patton

If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

-- Thomas Aquinas

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

-- George Patton

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) programs are notoriously prone to implementation difficulties. Many overrun their budgets, slip their schedules, disappoint their sponsors, or all of the above.