In my previous post, I asserted that many companies are not good at managing risks and I’ll stand by that statement. They’re not good at…
In the previous post, we examined some of the characteristics of early application systems through the lens of the tools employed to build and operate…
After people and processes, applications are a primary enabler of business capabilities for most organizations of any size. In the early days of commercial computing,…
I have written in past posts about the need to apply a risk-adjusted approach to managing information and communication technology (ICT). The focus I have…
A model of an average enterprise contains numerous dimensions, way more than the three that we are intrinsically familiar and comfortable with or the seven…
In his post Cause of Death: Invalid Assumptions, my colleague Mark Moore observed that project risk management often excludes consideration of underlying assumptions on which…
What is Risk? Many people think about risk as the potential impact of an exogenous event, like a hurricane or an auto accident. However, it…
There have been several posts on LinkedIn recently about IT Steering Committees—what their charter is, what information they should have available and how they should…
Mark Moore’s recent post entitled Corporate Cataracts focused on the need to match vision with strategy in order to achieve success at the enterprise level. …
How we design and implement systems and processes can play a large role in determining their usability. Poor usability can contribute to avoidable risks. This…