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It is very challenging to negotiate when the other party is more powerful than you are. While differences in power do exist in negotiations, power is complex, with some factors acting for you and others against you. You need to be able to understand and exploit these dynamics.

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Enterprise architecture (EA) can be traced back to 1987 and has continually evolved ever since. In this Executive Report by Claude R.

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The reasons for, and statistics on, IT project failures are well known and cited. However, because so many organizations attempt to hide their dirty laundry, rarely do we see an insider's account of the precise points at which a project derailed.

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Conventional wisdom holds that it's difficult, if not impossible, to cost-justify a technology project, particularly if the project is primarily technology infrastructure.

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In this Executive Report by Robert K. Wysocki, we examine the project overview statement (POS) -- the first document you create as part of the process for getting approval of a new proposed project.

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Enterprise 3.0 is about the radical changes that will move us away from talking about business technology alignment and closer to business technology convergence -- the inevitable outcome of technology, business, and management trends.

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Enterprise 3.0 is about the radical changes that will move us away from talking about business technology alignment and closer to business technology convergence -- the inevitable outcome of technology, business, and management trends.

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Many may say that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not the "next big thing" in 2010 and beyond. However, to arrive at the future of SOA and all its potential, the time to act is now -- build business services today.

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By now, agile methodologies have become established as a means of correcting a variety of ills within the software development environment. The next step is to move them to center stage within the enterprise.

This is the final Executive Report in a four-part series by Dr. Sara Cullen on the outsourcing lifecycle. The series is based on a detailed understanding of the outsourcing experiences of 107 organizations. This report takes you through the last three building blocks focused on transition, management, and the next generation (that is, the next contract). It is during these building blocks that the work done (or not done!) in the earlier part of the lifecycle, discussed in the previous Executive Reports, can hit hard. And even if done well, there are many challenges, as you will see.

Domain

Innovation

Assertion 187:

Companies have pursued efficiency, economies of scale, and mass markets at the expense of products that excite consumers and promote loyalty. The upside has been declining unit-cost curves, which have allowed products to reach consumers at prices more affordable than ever before. However, the downside has been a series of "me, too" products that fail to inspire.

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Data integrity and confidentiality have long relied on a combination of network- and application-based security. As enterprise architecture (EA) becomes more complex, data is progressively more integrated within massive data warehouses and distributed architectures.

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Barriers to the continual refinement of today's traditional search engine model are looming as the Internet continues to grow exponentially, as the information signal-to-noise ratio continues to shrink, and as we embrace the emerging Web 3.0 era, which is characterized by semantically linked data.

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If you are experiencing problems with your agile adoption initiatives, you are not alone. However, with experience we've seen common attributes and behaviors emerge that you can employ to increase your chances of agile success -- as well as to avoid failure.

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Open source software (OSS) is becoming increasingly important within the enterprise as it moves out from its original base within the IT infrastructure and server environment.

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System architecture

Assertion 186:

SOA has reached a tipping point in organizations' abilities to deliver business value.

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This Executive Report outlines the framework and process of business transformation.

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Leadership skills are tested when times are tough, when business is down, and when morale is low. So how do you motivate your people after 20% of their colleagues have been laid off? How do you focus their attention on future prosperity when the future seems so uncertain?

More and more enterprises are exploring how to become green and sustainable. Yet the terminology and methods for doing so are often confusing and inconsistent throughout the enterprise. What do we mean by "green?" What do we mean by "sustainable?" Can we truly incorporate greenness throughout our business in a systematic way, or will it be an ad hoc approach? This Executive Report by Michael Rosen, Harsh Sharma, and Tamar Krichevsky focuses on how architecture can lead the way to real changes in an organization.

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Breaches of personal information are a growing concern for the public and represent significant financial and legal risk to enterprises. This risk can be effectively managed by classifying business functions into those that need personal information and those that do not.

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In this Executive Report, I provide a strategy for the effective management of "fuzzy" projects. A fuzzy project is any project where the goal, the solution, or both are not clearly defined. Managing such high-risk projects is challenging.

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E-business

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Managers need to keep pace with rapid developments in global offshoring opportunities outside Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). This Executive Report by Leslie Willcocks, Catherine Griffiths, and Julia Kotlarsky describes these developments and provides a 20-factor framework for assessing the location attractiveness of the emerging 120-plus countries offering offshore services.

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A harsh economic recession calling for renewed cost reduction with an emphasis on tactical solution-delivery projects causes concern over the effectiveness of enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) and puts agile back in the limelight.

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Cloud computing describes the state of the art in data center infrastructure and its possibilities. As we explore in this Executive Report by Brian J. Dooley, the cloud provides some hope for handling some of the trickiest issues regarding business intelligence (BI).