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In this article, I examine survey findings pertaining to how organizations rated the success of their SCI initiatives. Specifically, I consider the following:
There's no doubt about it -- "real time" is the IT industry's current buzzword of choice. Vendors mention it every chance they can in their marketing literature, and consultants, analysts (myself included), and the press are keen on the phrase, too.
We had sophisticated systems that never talked to each other. As a result, most of the time the functional organizations were trying to second-guess what others were doing. For example, suppose there was a need to build 1,000 units. Production Control (PC) might decide to order 1,100 units, because they didn't always get what they wanted from material control. Material control might think: "PC never gets their forecasts straight; I know they'll ask for more." So they might add 20% to the PC request.
In a 2002 survey the Cutter Consortium performed on the state of risk management practice, we found that less than 40% of the companies we surveyed said that they are actively practicing software risk management. Worse, most that were practicing it were doing it in a pro forma manner.
Everyone is talking about Web services, but the information on them is heavily skewed. You can find reams of instructive matter about specifications, and nearly every vendor has a thrilling tale to tell (or "sell"?). But there's a dearth of accurate data about what organizations are actually doing with Web services -- or whether they're doing anything at all.
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IT Industry