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.
CxO Talk episode 1: Guy Kawasaki on influence for APEs
CxO Talk, my new talk show with co-host Vala Afshar, debuted with a conversation on marketing and influence with author and investor Guy Kawasaki. Guy’s most recent book, titled APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, is a practical handbook for self-publishing a book and using social media to get the word out and sell copies. CxO Talk is [...]
Marketing and IT tensions: ‘CxO Talk’ debuts today
A new breed of chief marketing officer seeks data-driven answers to tough challenges, such as establishing clear links between marketing spend, activities, and specific business outcomes. To meet these goals, marketers have taken over an increasing slice of the overall budget that enterprises allocate to technology. Not surprisingly, this trend corresponds to the growth of [...]
Is the desktop dead? Scoble and friends face-off on mobile
As part of the BusinessNext and (New Media Expo) conference, held this past January in Las Vegas, I asked a couple of interesting and highly accomplished friends — Robert Scoble and Vala Afshar — to discuss the impact of cloud, social, and mobile in the enterprise. Famous blogger, author, and Rackspace executive, Robert Scoble, spends significant time with large [...]
Enterprise software and the curse of vendor sameness
Enterprise software vendors talk in pithy, some would say pseudo-sophisticated, language designed to impress prospects, customers, and influencers in the market. Almost all enterprise vendors use terms like the following as symbols to convey broader meaning, despite offering little or no content to the reader: Time to value Continuous innovation Accelerated solutions Big data Mobile first Increase [...]
2013 ERP research: Compelling advice for the CFO
New research on the success of ERP implementations reveals mixed results. Although respondents are satisfied with their choice of software, the survey shows most ERP projects run over budget and buyers are do not fully receive expected benefits from their projects. Nonetheless, few respondents characterized their ERP project as a failure. For chief financial officers, [...]
Five lessons from a CIO innovation workshop
“Complexity” defines the reality of life for most CIOs. Under pressure to increase both efficiency and innovation in an environment where reducing costs is mandatory, CIOs face a unique set of challenges. These conflicting goals symbolize enterprise confusion around IT and the appropriate role of technology in business. Many organizations view IT is an expensive necessity [...]
Enterprise software wars: 5 points of advice for CIOs
Enterprise software, long a complex domain only of interest to specialists, has become the darling of venture capital investors and start-ups. This post presents context and concludes with advice for CIOs on navigating the changing enterprise software landscape. Enterprise software eats the world (photo credit: Michael Krigsman) To get a sense of growing interest in [...]
Cloud research exposes gaps between CIOs and business leaders
We often hear that IT is not aligned with the business, which is a catchall concept loosely meaning that business leaders and IT folks do not understand each other’s goals. Although differences in perspective and goals between these groups do exist, the gaps are difficult to measure, quantify, or even describe precisely. Nonetheless, these differences [...]
Big money: Marin County and Deloitte settle ERP lawsuit under gag order
Enterprise software can be a high stakes game of big money and influence, as the saga of Marin County and Deloitte Consulting demonstrates. California’s Marin County settled a longstanding lawsuit with Deloitte Consulting over a failed ERP project involving SAP software. The agreement offers Marin County little benefit and allows Deloitte to avoid bad publicity. [...]
SAP and HANA: 5 Points of advice for CIOs
SAP’s future is a combination of hardware and software, called HANA (high performance analytical appliance), which can process large volumes of data orders of magnitude faster than anything else the company offers. The potential applications of HANA are numerous and include examples such as: Real-time adjustments of airline ticket prices based on moment-by-moment shifts [...]
