Leading IT Projects: Knowing when to Speed Up and when to Slow Down

Dateline: May 1, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. How fast can IT make something happen?  In most organizations it's never fast enough.  "Slow" is not the adjective we want associated with IT (or for that matter, with any process).   However, to minimize risks and project failure, projects must go slow enough to insure … [Read more...]

IT Focuses More On the Business and Less On Internal Services

Dateline: October 10, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a recent survey of the Society for Information Management (SIM) membership which indicated that IT is in a transition in many organizations.  Leon Kappelman, IT Professor at the University of North Texas and the study's lead researcher, was quoted … [Read more...]