Dovetail Software Blogs: CIO Headaches
“IT
remains the best equipped and most suitable force within the enterprise
to develop the agility needed for survival and prosperity. But in
today’s world, where the opportunities are technological, IT has to
enlarge its interests beyond technology, and into the nature of
enterprise opportunity.”
TLE-2007 Highlights – Know Thy Audience!
“And
I think that was the main key success factor from the presentation
itself, because I was able to prove some of the key concepts regarding
social computing and the role of communities and at the same time I
could mention as well how I got to connect with people from the
audience I didn’t know from before face to face, but when talking to
them feeling like I knew them for years already! And they themselves
got to share their own thoughts about such adoption of social
networking within the enterprise. And before we realised about it,
everyone was sharing their own thoughts with questions and answers and
showing everyone that adopting such tools has got nothing to do with
the tools themselves, but with the cultural change of making use of
them. And that was the whole point of how I first envisioned the
presentation. Just perfect! Chaotic, energising, wonderfully
unstructured and straight to the point.”
Forrester Forum To Advise I.T. Chiefs
”’We’re seeing decision-making power for any purchase is shifting out of the I.T. organization to the CFO
or lines of business,’ said analyst Pascal Matzke. ‘Virtually no I.T.
decision is being made without a business case [so] I.T. managers have
to have a sound understanding of the business value of any project or
purchasing decision.’”
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Order Management
”’IT
dominated projects often fail to deliver business agility in areas such
as new product introduction, changing business models, and the
acquisition of new stakeholders,’ Wang writes. ‘Meanwhile,
business-dominated projects often fail to recognize IT considerations
that may hamper future flexibility in areas such as integration with
existing systems and in nonupgradeable product customizations.’ For
example one B2C customer built a call center
order capture system that led to order size increases of 15 percent,
but its inability to integrate with the financial system resulted in a
$1.5 million expense.”
Microsoft’s Raikes on the Role of BI in Corporate Strategizing
“What
really matters is whether users get the capabilities they need.
Acquiring the traditional industry players in BI just gives you the
same capability characteristic of the old industry. It makes those
acquisitions suspect. Much more of our focus has been in how we
transform the industry. Historically, you have had the pure BI players
and the enterprise application vendors dabbling in BI. Our approach is
much more about an end-to-end focus on BI, starting with the platform,
including the integration with the Office tools and the business
performance applications.”
Startup moving from India to the US to save money!
“Riya,
a very interesting startup that evolved into like.com just moved its
development team from India to the US to save money. They don’t seem to
be the only one: I heard a similar story from another small startup
recently. This is a perfect example of what I was trying to explain in
my post “Why globalization does not mean your job will get outsourced
to India.” You can’t just look at labor cost differentials: you have to
look at total cost differentials.”
Study: U.S. government still lacking data protection
“Less
than half of agencies updated their encryption and protection
technologies, and less than half provided security training to
employees after the VA breach, the survey said. Sixteen percent of
agencies did not react at all, the survey said.”
