As the availability of large amounts of information increases, companies' abilities to exploit that information for business purposes becomes proportional to the level of quality of the data. When bad data items are injected into a system, there are significant impacts, all of which cut into profitability.

As the availability of large amounts of information increases, companies' abilities to exploit that information for business purposes becomes proportional to the level of quality of the data. When bad data items are injected into a system, there are significant impacts, all of which cut into profitability.

This is my last Advisor during the summer vacation season here in California. Next week, most of my readers will be back in the office, thinking about enterprise architecture issues and other weighty business topics. Before summer is over entirely, however, I thought you might like to know about my birthday gift to myself: a Kyocera.

Say goodbye to those extension cords.

A sample product vision statement:

I had lunch not too long ago with a mid-level manager at a defense contractor. He was interested in how my e-commerce research might apply to his organizational issues.

Whether implicitly or explicitly, portfolio management has always been a key function of IT management. Selecting which projects to undertake, allocating resource levels to projects, and monitoring results across projects are key portfolio management activities.

Anyone involved in developing component-based software is probably aware that a growing number of people are advocating "new" software methodologies. In the US, these new methodologies are typically called Extreme Programming (XP -- http://www.extremeprogramming.org).

Oracle recently ran into trouble with some of its packaged application customers when it announced it was planning to discontinue support for version 10.7 of Oracle Applications.

Oracle recently ran into trouble with some of its packaged application customers when it announced it was planning to discontinue support for version 10.7 of Oracle Applications.

Oracle recently ran into trouble with some of its packaged application customers when it announced it was planning to discontinue support for version 10.7 of Oracle Applications.

According to Cutter Consortium, the biggest problem facing project managers today is a lack of direction.