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The lawsuit filed by Waste Management against SAP in March over what the trash-disposal company claims was a botched ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation is growing increasingly rancorous, with accusations of withheld information and deliberate foot-dragging.

Every time the economy turns downward, IT shops take a hit.

Microsoft calls it TownSquare. Deloitte hosts D Street. IBM has its Beehive, and Best Buy its BlueShirt Nation.

A few months back, I blogged about getting more value from your outsourcing strategy: Rather than sign a single $1 billion-plus deal, break your services up.

Drastic marketing budget increases are not likely this year for most marketers worldwide, according to a survey conducted by the CMO Council and sponsored by Deloitte Consulting, Market and TechTarget.

If Apple were a football team, the New England Patriots would have had some serious competition this year.

We asked some industry leaders for their most provocative predictions about IT's future in 2008. Here's our collection of the most interesting ideas.

Whatever you do, please don't call Stephanie Lee a geek. Sure, she's majoring in information technology and marketing at Marquette University in Milwaukee, where she's a senior.

Although many corporate board members believe that IT strategy is important, most directors admit that they don't pay adequate attention to information technology issues, according to a study slated to be released next week by Deloitte Consulting.

Spurred by stretched-out budgets, IT managers want to get the most business bang for their IT buck. That means delivering bottom-line impact and business value as quickly as possible.

Fear can be a powerful generator of upstanding conduct, say Stephen Wagner and Lee Dittmar. But business runs on discovering and creating value. In this month's Harvard Business Review, the authors discuss how smart companies are finding unexpected value in Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance. Wagner, who is the managing partner of the US Centre for Corporate Governance at Deloitte & Touche, and Dittmar, who leads the enterprise governance consulting practice at Deloitte Consulting, talked with Computerworld about how companies can use compliance to their advantage.