For the love of money: Scottish 'spend to save' plan fails
Even when a large project fails, external consultants can walk away with huge fees. It's sad.
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The barren coldness of winter
We in the technology business sometimes take ourselves just a tad bit too seriously. Sometimes, I think it's a good idea to completely let our minds wander elsewhere.
Happy Holidays overcoming the bare trees of failure
As we move toward the end of another year, I hope your bare trees bloom into successful and delightful experience. This photo shows the cloudy sky ahead of tomorrow's snow blizzard, here in Boston.
Advice for working with analysts
Here's a great presentation filled with sage advice for working with industry analysts.
BP oil spill and obvious failure
In some organizations, Pollyanna-like tendencies emerge whenever they plan new projects, leading to inevitable failure.
Complexity and false hope
It's hard to simplify complexity. Sometimes, this painful reality causes managers to grasp at straws and wallow in denial, seeking the allure of easy, yet ultimately pointless, solutions.
"IT bungles: appalling and unacceptable"
The UK's Child Support Agency (CSA) has had a long history of major IT and management problems, as described in Computer Weekly.Now, politician Danny Alexander has jumped into the fray with a few choice words describing the CSA:The massive IT failures that have dogged the CSA are appalling and unacceptable.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Moving to ZDNet
Effective immediately, I am moving this blog to ZDnet, at the following address:http://blogs.zdnet.
Profits Hurt When Raising VC Money
This is off-topic, but too bizarre to avoid mention. From Paul Kedrosky:Being profitable too soon gives investors, rightly or wrongly, an idea of what the margins are on the business, as opposed to what they could be in some perfect world.
Pigs Might Fly in Iowa
According to the Hawk Eye, Iowa has the distinction of joining Nevada and Wisconsin on our list of recent state government project failures. In this case, A.