Anyone who is around me very long will hear about one of my favorite books: Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn . I reference the book in my design and architecture classes as a way to focus on what people do with the things we build.

There's a lot of interest in business process improvement at the moment, and much of it is focused on the hope that software tools can be used to organize and control the execution of business processes. Products designed to facilitate the analysis and runtime management of processes are typically called business process management (BPM) tools or suites.

It is expected that the scope of an outsourcing relationship will evolve over the lifetime of the contract. Good scope management benefits both the buyer and the provider: the buyer receives all the services at the appropriate service level that it contracted for without overpaying, and the service provider performs only the services it has been contracted to do without giving away work.

Have you ever encountered a project failure? Project management research suggests that many projects would qualify as failures. Most statistics clearly imply that things are not getting any better and failures are commonplace.

Have you ever encountered a project failure? Project management research suggests that many projects would qualify as failures. Most statistics clearly imply that things are not getting any better and failures are commonplace.

Have you ever encountered a project failure? Project management research suggests that many projects would qualify as failures. Most statistics clearly imply that things are not getting any better and failures are commonplace.

Have you ever encountered a project failure? Project management research suggests that many projects would qualify as failures. Most statistics clearly imply that things are not getting any better and failures are commonplace.

Offshore IT outsourcing started with Y2K and applications software work and has expanded in the last few years to include business processes like HR and accounting and IT-enabled services, such as contact centers and related customer support services.

Offshore IT outsourcing started with Y2K and applications software work and has expanded in the last few years to include business processes like HR and accounting and IT-enabled services, such as contact centers and related customer support services.

Offshore IT outsourcing started with Y2K and applications software work and has expanded in the last few years to include business processes like HR and accounting and IT-enabled services, such as contact centers and related customer support services.

Offshore IT outsourcing started with Y2K and applications software work and has expanded in the last few years to include business processes like HR and accounting and IT-enabled services, such as contact centers and related customer support services.

Offshore IT outsourcing started with Y2K and applications software work and has expanded in the last few years to include business processes like HR and accounting and IT-enabled services, such as contact centers and related customer support services.

IBM announced it's buying Alphablox Corporation for an undisclosed amount. Alphablox's namesake product is a component-based Java application development environment (ADE) that is particularly useful for developing and embedding analytic functionality within other software applications.