7 Mar 2008

Ask.com Falling Apart For No Good Reason

Ask.com is having a terrible week. The company laid off 8% of its workforce, or about 40 jobs, and remains in a state of confusion about its future. Ask’s parent company, IAC, is mismanaging the search firm, panicking because the company isn’t Google,... (posted on 7 Mar 2008 by InsideGoogle)

3 Mar 2008

Bandwidth Deals for MSPs

Management Service Providers, MSPs, can increase their value added to their clients by expanding the information technology services that they provide to include finding better deals on WAN bandwidth. Few companies realize how much the telecommunications... (posted on 3 Mar 2008 by T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer)

3 Mar 2008

Screen Savers

Recently we implemented mandatory screen savers for all PC's at work. There were a few systems that we had to exempt from the policy due to legitimate business need. These systems are in secured areas and have limited access by only a few users. The rest... (posted on 3 Mar 2008 by Andy ITGuy)

1 Mar 2008

Can we break Corporate Silos without breaking Specialization?

Mansoor wrote an interesting post a couple of days ago that spurred some intelligent discussion. I want to continue the conversation by adding another perspective to one point in the post. It seemed like Mansoor said that specialists who are very good... (posted on 1 Mar 2008 by Green & White)

16 Feb 2008

BusinessWeek thinks that “Seth”-based firms are great

(Note: No reference to Seth Godin here - “Seth” pronounced ’saitth’) This is funny - BusinessWeek seems to think that a Seth-run company is a fresh idea — that companies “led by one guy get things done”. Quoting from their hilariously off-the-mark... (posted on 16 Feb 2008 by Green & White)

12 Feb 2008

IT projects for the organization with operational IT

In my critique of Nicholas Carr’s “IT Doesn’t Matter,” I made mention of choosing whether or not IT is strategic for an organization. In a sense, this choice is between strategic IT and operational IT. Strategic IT is the use of information technology to... (posted on 12 Feb 2008 by we CAN help IT)

11 Feb 2008

Beyond the 7-minute attention span: getting management interested in ITIL (or anything)

IT initiatives fail so often because of lack of management commitment, support and leadership. What to do about that? read more (posted on 11 Feb 2008 by The IT Skeptic)

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