IT Retardants

Why IT doesn't meet expectations Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on Jan 17, 2007 12:15 AM Subscribe Alerts: The key reason IT is often a source of cost and frustration is that senior managers - CEOs, CFOs, and board members - usually have neither the expertise to direct...[Read the rest]

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Ethics? what's that gonna cost me?: IT fraud comes in two main forms: those perpetrated for money or power, and involving failures to act ethically. [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Jan 16, 2007 12:15 AM
A challenge in fraud detection: My wife went to a conference recently where she saw a demonstration of an open source fraud detection utility called picalo. Its very cool - heres what the primary developer,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Jan 15, 2007 12:15 AM
How IT execs sell out their organizations: A google decision shifts the cost burden from dollars spent in IT, to minutes spent by users - minutes google monetises through paid advertising on email pages. [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Jan 4, 2007 12:15 AM
Unix vs. Windows or: sometimes a fool is just a fool: his own people not only can't do the job, but can't conceive of doing the job - "inconceivable" he calls it, despite having a staff large enough to devote 30... [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Jan 3, 2007 5:36 AM
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss: The longer term blame, however, rests squarely with the Universities and others involved in management education. Too many of them are simply not doing the job -both victims and perpetrators... [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Dec 18, 2006 12:15 AM
The nastiest, most pernicious, Windows advantage yet: The cultural expectation of failure bred first by data processing and then amplified by Wintel experience is now being exploited for political gains. [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Nov 1, 2006 12:15 AM
Traditional development and open source: The winners are the guys who are smart enough to deeply understand the core issues and then "just do it" - building highly functional prototypes, then getting others to build... [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Oct 10, 2006 12:15 AM
Development work and team size: the programming language appropriate for a particular application is the highest level language in which the requirements can be fully and completely expressed. [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Sep 18, 2006 12:15 AM
Politics, technology, and doubt by association: if the technology media community isn't doing its job with respect to Apple, what makes you think it's doing its job with respect to any other company with big media... [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Aug 31, 2006 5:38 AM
Corporate loyalties and the temporal disconnect: Objectivity doesn't mean having no opinion, it means being willing the change that opinion as the facts may warrant. [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Aug 24, 2006 5:42 AM
Disaster avoidance and recovery: bloody drills under realistic conditions lead to bloodless, automated, processing continuity when the real thing hits [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Aug 15, 2006 6:04 AM
The (traditional) disaster recovery plan: all of the plans I've reviewed have had one thing in common: a lack of testing, or even testability, under realistic conditions. [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Aug 14, 2006 5:47 AM
Middle management: Do you know why Ford cant make a Volvo despite owning the company? Both the Five Hundred sedan and the Freestyle station wagon are Volvos made by Ford, and theyre... [Read the rest]; Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: Jun 22, 2006 3:29 AM