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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

InfoWorld Daily: The truth about military- style IT management

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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

* The truth about military- style IT management
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* When SOAs fail

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THE TRUTH ABOUT MILITARY- STYLE IT MANAGEMENT

Careers: While many people loosely apply the word 'militaristic' to
corporate management styles, one reader explains that, "people who have
never been in the military haven't a clue what it's really like ... I
have found the military to be the most Demming-like organization for
which I've ever worked. A close second was organizations run by
ex-military officers." To which Bob Lewis waxes historical in this
Advice Line post. "Military leadership training before and during the
Vietnam War was quite bad. Following the fiasco, the military figured
out what it needed to do differently and implemented deep and
substantive changes... ...

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WHEN SOAS FAIL

Podcasts: Remember that old notion that most IT projects fail? It may or
may not be true (we explored that reality in The six great myths of IT a
while back) but, nonetheless, it is spreading to SOA. Poor planning
tends to catalyze such problems. "Truth be told, SOAs are not that
difficult to define, design and build," David Linthicum explains.
Getting that architecture in an optimal state, however, is a hard
objective to achieve. "In reality the people fail, not the technology or
the approach." Tune into Real World SOA. The news beat: For $6.8 million
SAP buys Business... ...

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