How Many Portals Are Enough?

Curt Hall

I continue to see references to companies developing enterprise knowledge portals, business intelligence (BI) portals, customer relationship management portals, and even balanced scorecard portals.


First, Break All the Rules

Jim Highsmith

I usually stay away from books with cutesy names, but I finally picked this one up because it showed up on many best-seller lists. First, Break All the Rules , by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (Simon & Schuster, 1999, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/


The Business Internet Consortium and the Supply Chain Council

Paul Harmon
THE BUSINESS INTERNET CONSORTIUM

Choosing Chaos

Jeff Gainer

"But, Monsieur Jeff," Francois implored. "Surely French wine will not present a problem for you."


Choosing Chaos

Jeff Gainer

"But, Monsieur Jeff," Francois implored. "Surely French wine will not present a problem for you."


Choosing Chaos

Jeff Gainer
CHOOSING CHAOS 25 July 2001 by Jeff Gainer

"But, Monsieur Jeff," Francois implored. "Surely French wine will not present a problem for you."


Choosing Chaos

Jeff Gainer
CHOOSING CHAOS 25 July 2001 by Jeff Gainer

"But, Monsieur Jeff," Francois implored. "Surely French wine will not present a problem for you."


Preventative Medicine For CRM Initiatives

Curt Hall

I've been involved with a company attempting to straighten out a decision support system it developed to streamline its software sales, marketing, and customer support operations.


Preventative Medicine For CRM Initiatives

Curt Hall

I've been involved with a company attempting to straighten out a decision support system it developed to streamline its software sales, marketing, and customer support operations.


Agile Organizations: Part III

Jim Highsmith
Agile Organizations series: Part 1

Barry's Latest Object Storage Fact Book

Paul Harmon

Software development is increasingly object-oriented (OO). Java is an OO language. The latest version of Visual Basic and Microsoft's new C# are also OO languages. And components and various component techniques rely on object techniques. Thus, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) application servers are also OO programming environments. The popular press may prefer to dismiss objects and focus on components, but serious software developers know that object technologies, in one guise or another, now dominate software development and architectural designs.


What Good Is a Metrics Baseline?

Michael Mah

The goal of gathering data to establish a baseline of IT activities should be to answer some clear-cut questions. These questions should then provide a roadmap for future updates to the baseline. The questions might include:


What Good Is a Metrics Baseline?

Michael Mah

The goal of gathering data to establish a baseline of IT activities should be to answer some clear-cut questions. These questions should then provide a roadmap for future updates to the baseline. The questions might include: