Scott Walters Exploring Stuff » Management http://swalters.com Looking at IT and adoption issues. Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:02:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Project Management Links http://swalters.com/2007/03/project-management-links/ http://swalters.com/2007/03/project-management-links/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:53:54 +0000 ScottWalters http://www.swalters.com/2007/03/16/project-management-links/ http://www.gantthead.com/ is an online community of project managers.

http://www.niku.com/ provides OpenWorkbench, a competitor to MS Project that is an excellent tool to work with.

http://www.pmboulevard.com/ is a resource site for all things project management related.

http://www.pmi.org/ are the producers of PMBOK and a certification group for project managers.

]]> http://swalters.com/2007/03/project-management-links/feed/ 0 Journals http://swalters.com/2007/03/journals/ http://swalters.com/2007/03/journals/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:52:57 +0000 ScottWalters http://www.swalters.com/2007/03/16/journals/ http://www.cio.com/ CIO Magazine

http://www.cio.com.au CIO Australia – IT issues of interest to CIO’s

http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/secid;21 CIO Government – closely related to CIO magazine, this covers government specific issues

http://www.csoonline.com.au/ Chief Security Officer – also related to CIO magazine covering security issues

http://australianit.news.com.au/ Australian IT – News limited covers the IT industry

http://www.cio-today.com/ more IT news targetted at the top of the IT ladder

http://www.zdnet.com/ the venerable ZDNet, a source of information

http://www.cnet.com/ cnet was once fantastic, nows its more product reviews than anything else

http://opensource.sys-con.com/ Enterprise open source news.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/ Dilbert blog – the Scott Adams’ blog. Just ’cause I read it sometimes doesn’t mean I agree with it.

www.dilbert.com Dilbert cartoon – What more can you say about Dilbert.

]]> http://swalters.com/2007/03/journals/feed/ 0 Government employee blogs – At The Whiteboard – ZDNet http://swalters.com/2006/09/government-employee-blogs-at-the-whiteboard-zdnet/ http://swalters.com/2006/09/government-employee-blogs-at-the-whiteboard-zdnet/#comments Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:55:00 +0000 ScottWalters http://www.swalters.com/2006/09/28/government-employee-blogs-at-the-whiteboard-zdnet/ Government employee blogs – At The Whiteboard – ZDNet

When is the public’s right to know more important than a government agency’s right to privacy? Bob Artner looks at the legal issues involved in government employee blogs and suggests evaluating them along a continuum.
Host: Bob Artner, VP, TechRepublic
Length: 00:03:32

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Should promote a bit closer review of balanced score card. Of particular interest at the moment because I’m working on Business Plans.

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By Irene Tham • Published: Thursday, July 20, 2006

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by Sean Michael Kerner , Published: 6/18/03, Builder.com

I’m now on the side that writes RFPs rather than responding to them however this article covers many of the basics in understanding the RFP prior to writing the proposal.

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This is a pretty good blog on ITIL that I stumbled across today. Well worth following.

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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19785111%5E15316%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

“INTEL will lay off 1000 managers, or about 1 per cent of its work force, as it seeks to tries to restart profit growth amid heated competition with rival AMD.”This action is designed to both reduce costs and improve communications and decision-making across the company,” Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said.”

Interesting thing about this is that the reduction of 1000 managers will apparently “reduce costs and improve communications and decision-making across the company.” Doesn’t say much if you’re one of the culled managers.

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]]> http://swalters.com/2006/07/intel-culls-management/feed/ 0 Wikis–a disruptive innovation http://swalters.com/2006/07/wikis-a-disruptive-innovation/ http://swalters.com/2006/07/wikis-a-disruptive-innovation/#comments Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:33:00 +0000 ScottWalters http://www.swalters.com/2006/07/11/wikis-a-disruptive-innovation/ A good article from KMWorld Magazine concerning Wiki’s. Cindy Gordon discusses implementation of Wiki’s at several larger organisations.

http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=15802

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