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Insight
Over the years, I've had a growing suspicion that has turned into a certainty: the success of agile adoption efforts is not based primarily on the practices or even the team. I've come to believe that the number one reason for the success of any agile adoption effort is the individuals involved in the projects.
Executive Report
Identifying Risks from an ITIL Service Perspective
Abstract
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and its fundamental concern for quality IT service delivery and management provides a completely fresh way of identifying the full range of risks that organizations face in conceiving, funding, executing, and operating IT services that support business objectives. ITIL strategic and tactical objectives are as clear as the desert sky. Because of this clarity, managers should find it easier to document the potential risks in failing to fulfill ITIL's prescriptions.
Executive Summary
Identifying Risks from an ITIL Service Perspective
Identifying risks is an old management activity now reinvigorated within the context of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service lifecycle, found in ITIL version 3 (ITIL v3).1 Risk identification is the necessary first step to risk mitigation, and a fresh way of looking at risks through the prism of service creation and delivery can heighten not only an understanding of risks, but an awareness of what management actions are required to avoid them.
Executive Report
IT Cost-Cutting in a Time of Economic Peril
Abstract
In a time of aggressive cost-cutting, CIOs and other decision makers in an IT organization can play a key role in helping business units find cost-cutting quick-wins while also reducing the risks that such cost-cutting will compromise IT's future service abilities.
Domain
IT strategy
Assertion 178:With more and more companies unwilling or unable to invest in up-front capital costs for projects, lots of noise is being made about cloud computing as a fast and efficient deployment environment. Most companies will be wary but willing. Can you afford not to get involved?
Executive Summary
IT Cost-Cutting in a Time of Economic Peril
Cost-cutting, freeing up cash, and generally preserving financial health is the order of the day for companies in our current recession. The IT organization finds itself in a uniquely awkward position. It is expected to pony up savings like every other unit, but can this be accomplished without compromising valuable resources and capabilities needed for the future?
This month's installment of Cutter Benchmark Review is the fourth in our yearly series on IT trends and technologies for the coming year. As you know if you have been following CBR, at the beginning of every year we ask our practicing and academic contributors to take stock of current trends. Based on our benchmarking survey of investment priorities, we ask our contributors to explain the results and look ahead to extrapolate these to create some guidelines for our readers on how to tackle the new year in the IT shop.
The year 2009 is set to become one of the most turbulent years ever seen in the IT industry worldwide. We anticipate many changes and a substantial amount of restructuring both in the industry and in companies that make use of IT.