Archive for category IT
Access to Information Changes Things
Posted by Thom in IT, Technology on 2009/04/12
social_prefix = ”; social_title = ‘Access to Information Changes Things’; social_url = ‘http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/04/12/access-to-information-changes-things/’; In today’s New York Times the front page of the Arts section featured a great story on the Grateful Dead and how their fans talk and think about the music of the Grateful Dead and what has happened with new ways to [...]
Managing Costs vs. Solving Business Problems
Posted by Thom in IT, Outsourcing on 2009/03/31
I recently read an interesting McKinsey Quarterly article on Managing IT during a downturn. IT spending and costs, like so many business functions, wax and wane with business cycles. Spending increases gradually over time before a shock or other external event occurs requiring significant and rapid cost cuts. The current downturn is no different but what [...]
Documentation, or thoughts on IT’s biggest nemesis
In a previous professional role I had the opportunity to meet and advise businesses of all sizes on their IT operations. I noticed something common to almost all organizations was a lack of adequate documentation. And by adequate I’m not talking about beautiful 4-color large format Visio logical and functional schematic diagrams, although those are [...]
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