The ability to organize for high performance is a source of competitive advantage. Teams are seen as a critical component of a high-performance organization. In my view, however, few IT managers accurately assess the organizational risk in failing to attend to team dynamics that lead to reliable delivery. Thus, they incur tremendous "organizational debt" in the way they structure and manage the work. That's where this issue of CBR comes in.
October 2004
October 2004
Vol. 17, No. 10, October 2004
Printer Friendly PDF versionOutsourcing Is a Corporate IT Issue In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: Offshore Outsourcing: No Pain, No Gain?
- Offshore Outsourcing: No Pain, No Gain?: Opening Statement
- Breaking the Cycle: Rethinking Your Approach to Offshore Outsourcing
- Competing in the Offshore Era
- Working in IT in America: Some Strategies for Not Losing Your Job to Overseas Outsourcing
- Preparing for Offshoring Initiatives
- Outsourcing and Information Security: What Are the Risks?
September 2004
Focus on New Technologies
Resolving data integrity issues requires new technological approaches. Technologies like RFID build in quality by improving data accuracy, objectivity, and timeliness.In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: In Pursuit of Information Quality
- In Pursuit of Information Quality: Opening Statement
- Beyond Data Cleansing: A Process-Oriented Approach to Improving Information Quality
- The Next Frontier: How Auto-ID Could Improve ERP Data Quality
- From Pallet to Shelf: Improving Data Quality in Retail Supply Chains using RFID
- Improving Data Quality the Six Sigma Way
- Information Quality Management in a Real-Time World
- Data Tracking in the DoD, from Army Logistics to Net-Centric Warfare
September 2004
Would Hershey Foods Corporation's story of undelivered candy that piled up in the company's warehouses in 1999 and of the more than US $100 million in lost Halloween sales that year have been any different had close executive board-level oversight of the infamous enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiative taken place?
August 2004
You Don’t Believe Them
Business cases — the financial models and supporting documentation used to evaluate IT investments — are among the least understood, least trusted tools that managers encounter in running a technology operation.In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: Analyzing IT ROI: Can We Prove the Value?
- Analyzing IT ROI: Can We Prove the Value? -- Opening Statement
- Six Rules for Finding IT Value
- ROI: Bad Practice, Poor Results
- Planning for Benefits Realization
- ROI, the Business Case, and Bottom-Line Impact
- Believe It: Five Principles for Performing Credible ROIs
Copyright © 2024 Arthur D. Little | All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy | Terms of Service