Stories about: Systems Thinking

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Outsourcing contracts at risk 29 January, 2008 16:09

Businesses are in danger of losing control of their outsourced IT projects due to a lack of internal IT leadership, poor business sourcing strategies, inadequate relationship building and a failure to provide the right internal resources and skills, according to a study commissioned by LogicaCMG as part of its Outsourcing Enterprise whitepaper series.
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Outsourcing works if key skills are retained inhouse 03 December, 2007 16:43

Businesses are in danger of losing control of their outsourced IT projects due to a lack of internal leadership and poor business sourcing strategies.
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Feature: Changing lanes with strong governance 13 September, 2006 12:18

It took a crisis for Volkswagen of America to learn that strong governance is the only way to keep IT aligned with the car maker's primary goal of selling more cars than the competition.
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Dear IT graduate, just one word -- mainframes 28 September, 2005 16:00

Imagine today's computer science students experiencing the kind of cocktail party thrown for Benjamin Braddock by his parents in the 1967 movie The Graduate. As the students wonder about what the future may hold, various older figures sidle up with one-word suggestions about possible careers. Java, Linux and Internet you'd expect to hear whispered, but mainframes? Not so much.
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Knowledge Management Case Files 02 February, 2000 12:01

United Technologies Corp., Located in East Hartford, Conn. Employees: 142,000 nationwide; 1998 Revenues: $25.7 billion.
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Feature: Keeping IT on track 01 July, 1999 12:01

Today, business and IT strategies are becoming increasingly inseparable, one driving the other. Businesses must select the appropriate IT architectures and infrastructures for the project. These decisions and choices demand a systematic approach to project and system evaluation. This article describes the Constructive Evaluation (CE) method which provides a sound basis for such decision making and that is applicable to evaluation of several types of IT systems