Chris Hart (hyamshart)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Member since Apr 24, 2006, follows 15 people, 3 public groups, 386 public bookmarks (1005 total).

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5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases on 2009-11-18
Richard Eoin Nash - The Blog: My start-up: Cursor on 2009-11-17
Why Great Innovators Spend Less Than Good Ones - Scott Anthony - HarvardBusiness.org on 2009-11-04
Amazon Web Services Blog: Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service on 2009-10-28
Warren Ellis » Immaterials on 2009-10-18
How to Get IT Projects Approved - Susan Cramm - Harvard Business Review on 2009-10-16
- Usually it goes something like this: The manager knows that the key to justifying projects is demonstrating the link between your proposed projects and the overall enterprise strategy. Unfortunately, research indicates that "most companies have a formal strategic planning processing but don't use it to make their most important decisions." In other words, they don't really have a meaningful enterprise strategy.
- So what do managers do? They use a watered-down surrogate: a list of IT initiatives that survive the annual financial planning process. The list does not impress the IT investment board. They demand to understand the strategic and financial justification for each line item.
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- - Unfortunately, the resulting list of approved IT projects has as much to do with making IT matter as a series of home improvements do on creating a pleasing and functional décor.
  - All this because, as we pointed out before, there's no meaningful enterprise strategy.
  - written down.
  - What distinguishes leaders from managers is the ability to develop strategic context for their organizations and initiatives in spite of the absence of an actual strategy document and formal processes.
9 Ways to Run Smarter IT Projects - Susan Cramm - Harvard Business Review on 2009-10-16
- Don't automate existing processes, but redesign from an extended enterprise perspective.
- If you are going to replace or upgrade an existing system, scope it so that it delivers an important capability that was not in place before.
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- - The point here is not that geeks are incompetent or that geekwork is hopeless, but that creativity and innovation are difficult to do" and "if you expect every project to be completed on schedule and on budget, you're likely to be constantly disappointed.
The Business and IT Must Work Together. Can You Help? - Susan Cramm - Harvard Business Review on 2009-10-16
Thomas Nelson Partners with Author Solutions to Launch Self-Publishing Imprint, WestBow Press on 2009-10-16
Why are Amazon, Google interested in eReaders, eBooks? « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books on 2009-10-13

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