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How often are we surprised when a task, or entire project, slips unexpectedly because key staff have outrageously (sic) taken a holiday at a critical point in the schedule? The credit crunch will make it even harder than usual to persuade those who fund your technology investments, especially if you need new money to spend when there is downward pressure on your existing budget. Westminster Business School, London 10th June 2009. Limited places available. Event organised by the Sociotechnical group of the British Computer Society. Let’s admit it, we all know that the IT job sector is shrinking faster than you can say: “Return on Investment.” These days it is so easy to quickly e-mail a difficult task to somebody else, either to share the problem or to shed it completely, rather than dealing with it ourselves. I’ll bet that it’s at least once an hour, or maybe more [...] People will tell you that if you are too close to a problem, you should just step back and take a look from a different angle. The proliferation of “mashups” (software services created by combining disparate components into a new configuration) shows that they are becoming increasingly popular and have already entered the Enterprise domains. Some of these are not only useful but also fairly quick to develop and deploy. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. The facility of [...] Building a Senior Management Team is as easy as ABC, so long as that doesn’t stand for Antony, Brutus and Cassius! Bonfire Fuel up to $3.4 trillionComputing reports Gartner estimates that the worldwide market for IT in 2008 will be $3.4 trillion, up by 7% on the figures for 2007. I guess that makes the size of the Trillion Dollar Bonfire almost $2 trillion (per year) of disappointment and cost; based on 50 to 60% of investments failing to achieve their [...] |
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