Let's continue with the conversation we began in " Up the Down Leadership Staircase" (Trends E-Mail Advisor, 8 April 2004) about what technology leadership will require in the early 21st century (and perhaps a lot longer).

Let's continue with the conversation we began in " Up the Down Leadership Staircase" (Trends E-Mail Advisor, 8 April 2004) about what technology leadership will require in the early 21st century (and perhaps a lot longer).

Let's continue with the conversation we began in " Up the Down Leadership Staircase" (Trends E-Mail Advisor, 8 April 2004) about what technology leadership will require in the early 21st century (and perhaps a lot longer).

Let's continue with the conversation we began in " Up the Down Leadership Staircase" (Trends E-Mail Advisor, 8 April 2004) about what technology leadership will require in the early 21st century (and perhaps a lot longer).

Let's continue with the conversation we began in " Up the Down Leadership Staircase" (Trends E-Mail Advisor, 8 April 2004) about what technology leadership will require in the early 21st century (and perhaps a lot longer).

I remember when the idea of using the Internet and the Web as marketing and sales channels first became popular in 1997. For a couple of years you could hardly read any magazine without wading through stories on how the Internet and the Web were going to remake business. In fact, I wrote some of those articles.

Decades of experience have shown that there are certain policies, attitudes, and practices -- shall we say, "rules of thumb" -- that, taken together, are essential for successful organizational change. And given that outsourcing is a major organizational change process, these rules of thumb seem to apply to outsourcing as well.

Decades of experience have shown that there are certain policies, attitudes, and practices -- shall we say, "rules of thumb" -- that, taken together, are essential for successful organizational change. And given that outsourcing is a major organizational change process, these rules of thumb seem to apply to outsourcing as well.

I remember when the idea of using the Internet and the Web as marketing and sales channels first became popular in 1997. For a couple of years you could hardly read any magazine without wading through stories on how the Internet and the Web were going to remake business. In fact, I wrote some of those articles.

I remember when the idea of using the Internet and the Web as marketing and sales channels first became popular in 1997. For a couple of years you could hardly read any magazine without wading through stories on how the Internet and the Web were going to remake business. In fact, I wrote some of those articles.

[Excerpted from an article in the September 2000 Business-IT Strategies Executive Report.]

Management's attitude toward risk will influence greatly whether risks are identified early and thoroughly enough to take reasonable actions to mitigate them.

I recently published a column in IEEE Software in which I observed that in recent years, requirements and modeling have fallen on hard times and that this is a trend that should be reversed. The article appeared just a few days ago, and I have already received comments from readers who say they are seeing a resurgence of interest both in requirements and design.