Michael Krigsman
Well-known expert on why IT projects fail, CEO of Asuret, a Brookline, MA consultancy that uses specialized tools to measure and detect potential vulnerabilities in projects, programs, and initiatives. Also a popular and prolific blogger, writing the IT Project Failures blog for ZDNet. Frequently quoted by the press on topics related to IT management.
Goodbye Kodak, Hello FujiFilm
After 131 years great American photographic icon, Eastman Kodak, filed for bankruptcy while Japanese FujiFilm rises toward greatness. There is a lesson in here.
CIO view: Three truths that bridge the great divide
Photo credit: “Conversations in Silos” by Michael Krigsman This post summarizes my remarks to a group of senior government leaders embarking on an innovative and ambitious plan to improve health care delivery in their state. A key issue is fostering communication and collaboration between business stakeholders and IT. Statistics tell us that almost 70 percent [...]
CES 2012: Wrap up video
Now that the huge Consumer Electronics Show is over, it’s time to review the most important new products and announcements. In a departure from my usual IT Project failures fare, I spoke with Canada’s Sun News Network about CES 2012 highlights. Here’s that video report: Although not actually in Las Vegas, I followed certain announcements carefully. In response to [...]
Predicting 2012: Rapid implementation in focus
The world of IT failure is bizarre. Despite outrageous statistics that affect virtually every major enterprise software vendor and customer, from ERP to CRM and beyond, mere mention of the topic terrifies many in the industry. As a result, IT failures have become an accepted, almost expected, part of enterprise life. The time for this [...]
Workday interview: Insights from a deep enterprise cloudist
Great interview with Workday Co-CEO, Aneel Bhusri, who discusses cloud, ERP, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, NetSuite, investing, and other hot topics.
Smart move: SAP delays community platform rollout
SAP’s online forum, called the SAP Community Network (SCN), includes over two million members, making it an important presence for customers, developers, and partners. With so many users, platform decisions and changes can affect a staggering number of people. The existing SCN infrastructure is dated and SAP is developing a replacement based on the Jive [...]
TechCrunch trivializes SAP’s $3.4B billion cloud acquisition
Photo credit: Cloud watching by Michael Krigsman TechCrunch trumpeted an odd lack of interest in SAP’s acquisition of human capital management vendor, SuccessFactors, for $3.4 billion. The popular technology startup blog offered these choice comments: In what is perhaps the most boring piece of tech news to come out of this week, German software giant [...]
Six lessons for intelligent project management
Many organizations mistakenly think project managers are solely responsible for implementation success or failure. On the surface, such myopic and shortsighted views may appear true — if many tasks are late and over-budget, then of course the overall project will also follow suit. However, looking more closely it becomes clear that project management is only [...]
Enterprise software under attack
Traditional enterprise software has increasingly come under attack from cloud vendors and the general “consumerization of IT.” Both these trends signal changing expectations about the relationship between enterprise software and end users. Traditional enterprise software has a negative reputation for being poorly designed and difficult to use. Although vendors have long been aware of this problem, few [...]
Robert Scoble (still) doesn’t understand enterprise software
Yet again, we open the thorny debate of enterprise vs. consumer software.
