Posted on May 5, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
As suggested by “The Experience Trap” series I’ve been running, in the very near future, the skills and competencies to lead future initiatives will be those of a program and portfolio manager.
I’m not sure that the way we approach methodology is helping. As an example, my local PMI chapter is sponsoring a speaker on Adaptive [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
A case study (here) and press release (here) about a quick, clean SAP Business All-In-One implementation at TomoTherapy. What stands out about what worked?
Using SAP Best Practices as the baseline. It makes it very easy when one can leverage a fully documented and functional prototype.
Using a partner willing to leverage SAP Best Practices. It is instructive [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Lot of travel lately — Walldorf, Singapore, and Bangalore back-to-back-to-back.
I want to pick up a thread I dropped earlier, the idea that CIOs get too caught up in this idea that they have to be “strategic.” For too many IT shops, this approach leads to several common mistakes:
Losing focus on the plumbing, thereby losing credibility [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Frank M. at PM Think had a brief post on diverging business<>IT views of the role of IT. This reminded me of many discussions with CIOs and our SAP strategy guys about overcoming this disconnect.
My take is that this issue has been driven by a basic conflict: CIOs see themselves as strategic when many of the businesses [...]
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