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California payroll: Another failure waiting to happen?

California payroll: Another failure waiting to happen?

By Michael Krigsman on September 2, 2014

The State Controller’s Office is launching an assessment to recover its failed payroll project. This new project seems doomed even before it starts.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged BearingPoint, California, payroll, project management, sap | 1 Response

Deltek Update Fall 2013

Deltek Update Fall 2013

By Michael Fauscette on October 23, 2013

Last week in Dallas Deltek’s customers and partners gathered for its annual user conference. As usual it was well attended and the audience was very enthusiastic.  Deltek’s customers are some of the most loyal and vocal I’ve seen in the enterprise software business. While there were many product announcements with lot’s of new features and […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged collaboration, Deltek, erp, Kona, Professional Services, Project, project management, Social, solution, SRP

Evolution and opportunity: Going beyond IT failure

Evolution and opportunity: Going beyond IT failure

By Michael Krigsman on December 11, 2012

On April 7, 2006, I wrote my first blog post, titled Poor, Poor FBI, describing an ill-fated FBI project called the Virtual Case File. That article kicked off a writing spree, which continues to this day, of more than 1,000 pieces on ZDNet and elsewhere. Now, I’m extending the IT failures mandate to include broader […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Chief information officer, IT Failures, Michael Krigsman, project management, ZDNet

Six lessons for intelligent project management

Six lessons for intelligent project management

By Michael Krigsman on November 28, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged project management | 3 Responses

Innovation Management

Innovation Management

By Michael Fauscette on October 26, 2011

I titled the post “Innovation Management”, but I intend to focus as much on the activity as on the underlying system. While innovation management is the name we use in our just released Social Business Taxonomy (IDC Doc #230541, currently subscription required, but shortly will be posted here). I’m a little wary of using “management” […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged ideasourcing, ideation, innovation, Innovation management, Knowledge Management, Management, open innovation, portfolio, process, product, project management, service | 1 Response

Communication and Collaboration in a Social Business World

Communication and Collaboration in a Social Business World

By Michael Fauscette on April 16, 2011

There’s a pretty good argument that a big part of the social business transformation is simply using new and more effective ways to communicate. In fact that’s really one of the fundamental advances that accompanied the adoption of the Internet….

Posted in Business | Tagged activity stream, collaboration, communication, e2.0, email, im, project management, socbiz, social business, work execution

Minnesota HealthMatch: A perfect storm for IT failure

Minnesota HealthMatch: A perfect storm for IT failure

By Michael Krigsman on March 21, 2011

When poor judgment and lousy communication meet genuinely bad technology, it creates an awful perfect storm where IT failure is almost certain. Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS) just closed out such a project.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged custom software, government, Healthmatch, Medicaid, Minnesota, Project Failure, project management

CIO view: 'Feelgood mojo' and the quest for consulting greatness

CIO view: ‘Feelgood mojo’ and the quest for consulting greatness

By Michael Krigsman on January 11, 2011

The best consultants, who genuinely do the right thing for clients, are worth their weight in gold.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged CIO, Consultant, IT Consulting, Management consulting, project management, si

CIO view: Business requirements and the elegant art of 'no'

CIO view: Business requirements and the elegant art of ‘no’

By Michael Krigsman on January 10, 2011

A CIO explains the importance of defining business requirements as a prerequisite for IT success.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Chief information officer, CIO, Harvard Medical School, Information technology, IT Success, project management | 3 Responses

Five tips from inside the Devil's Triangle

Five tips from inside the Devil’s Triangle

By Michael Krigsman on December 3, 2010

This post offers thoughtful advice, based on an understanding of the Devil’s Triangle, to help ensure your project will be a success.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Devil, Enterprise resource planning, erp, InfoWorld, project management

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