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GM's recent decision to initiate a "multisourcing" strategy that will result in it parceling out its IT outsourcing responsibilities to multiple solution providers has gained a lot of attention within the IT industry, as well as among corporate management and business publications.
Maybe I've been in the IT industry too long, but I don't get what all the commotion is about.
I have never found the grim statistics on IT project failures particularly illuminating or convincing. These statistics and their conclusions -- basically, that IT departments are consistently failing at IT and have to try harder, again -- show up periodically from research companies and spur a flurry of funereal and pontificating commentary within the IT community.
I have never found the grim statistics on IT project failures particularly illuminating or convincing. These statistics and their conclusions -- basically, that IT departments are consistently failing at IT and have to try harder, again -- show up periodically from research companies and spur a flurry of funereal and pontificating commentary within the IT community.
Coming into the restaurant at the conference, Ray spotted a table of old friends waving him over to join them.
"Congratulations on your promotion, Ray! Your company is lucky to have you as its CIO," Fran said. "What's your plan?"
Henry Ford may have given us the inexpensive automobile but Alfred Sloan gave us the model year. Ford believed that mass production was based on making millions of one standardized product. Sloan, on the other hand, believed that mass consumerism was based on changing automobile styles every year so that people would be tempted (encouraged) to buy a new car every few years rather than every decade. This was called style-based (or marketing-based) obsolescence.
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Information Security Assessments
Information security risk assessments have become one of the more important techniques to minimize operational risk, improve the security posture in a company, and meet current regulations and standards. Risk assessments have long been used in other domains, such as software and system development and the financial and insurance industries. In information security, risk assessments began as primarily technological evaluations -- an identification of the known [1] vulnerabilities remaining in operational systems and system components.
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Key Moments in Projects
There are many key moments in projects. What I do during those moments greatly influences the outcome of the project. There is good news here in that we as project managers can learn to recognize these moments and respond well.
I believe a key moment in a project occurs when someone brings me some not-so-good news about the work. This can happen many times in every project. There is a set of activities preceding such a moment:
After performing rigorous due diligence, reviewing several RFP (request for proposal) responses, and evaluating a selected number of suitable vendors, you picked one or more partner(s) to work on your sourcing initiatives. What makes you so confident that you and your partner will have a successful relationship? What assures you that you two are really in this relationship together, for the long haul?