Cloud Computing and the Enterprise

I ran across an absolutely amazing blog post from Mark Masterson titled ‘The Enterprise Cloud‘ that really shed a lot of light on Cloud Computing in the Enterprise. Cloud Computing seems to be one of those nebulous entities with many different definitions by many different people.  Take the following definitions as examples. Frank Gillett @ [...]

Links for Dec 28 2008

This is the last “Sunday Links” post for 2008…hope you find it a good one! Using Information to Develop Productive Relationships by Michael McKinney at Leading Blog 7 Wrong Ways To Outsource Your IT Department by Dr. Jim Anderson at the Business of IT Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com: The Power of the Real Time Enterprise [...]

Most Commented Articles for 2008

I recently installed IntenseDebate on my blog and started playing around with the tools available to me.  I noticed that I can easily stats of posts and comments…something I hadn’t really looked at before. What are my most commented posts from 2008?  See below. Blu Domain: Poor Service Defined – 54 comments Better to be [...]

Sitecore, Me and the Boy Scouts

Me on Sitecore (from a Sitecore Press Release): “We needed to move into a CMS to gain content management capabilities as well as easily host and manage our numerous local council and national websites from a central location,” said Eric Brown, CMS Project Manager, Boy Scouts of America. “Sitecore was selected due to its ability [...]

Realizing the potential of IT

McKinsey has recently released a report titled “IT’s unmet potential: McKinsey Global Survey Results” that shows that there is still a lot of work to do to align IT and business. The survey attempts to answer the following high-level questions: How IT can serve as a tool to help build competitive advantage What risks arise [...]

Links for Dec 21 2008

Positive Communication and Leadership by Stephen Smith on Slacker Manager A Lean, Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise by Dean Leffingwell on Scaling Software Agility Social Hierarchies: I had an Experience Like Sheryl’s by Ted Wallingford on Signal to Noise Spark Your Creativity by Thinking INSIDE the Box By Mark McGuinness on Lateral [...]

Blog Updates – Theme Change & IntenseDebate

Its that time of year again.  No…not the holidays.  It’s time for me to change my blog around again I’ve changed the theme to the Contender Theme and added IntenseDebate to handle comments. Let me know if you see any issues with the blog and commenting system.

Twitter & Friendfeed

hey everyone – I’ve been lax in letting you know that I’m on Twitter and Friendfeed…feel free to follow/subscribe. Twitter: http://twitter.com/ericdbrown Friendfeed – http://friendfeed.com/ericbrown

Project Selection using Decision Support & Optimization Techniques

This post is an excerpt (with slight modifications) of a recent paper titled “Project Selection using Decision Support Optimization Tools.” If you’d like to read the full paper, click here for the PDF version of Project Selection using Decision Support Optimization Tools.  The full version of the paper has full details of the LINGO model [...]

Cutter on 2009 IT Trends

The Cutter Consortium blog has an interesting post titled “IT Trends and Antitrends for 2009“.   Some interesting items listed…I’ve reproduced the listing of Trends and Anti-Trends below with a brief discussion following. The Trends: Trend 1: Firms will try to remove redundant islands of business process and technology. Trend 2: Data warehouses, vocabularies and ontologies [...]