getting past the gatekeepers

Lion Gatekeeper by Daniel Y on flickr

We live in an increasingly connected, some would say open, world. And yet there still seems to be no shortage of gatekeepers, whose primary function is to guard against unfettered access to people, places and ideas. Have you worked out how to get past the gatekeepers?

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improving the integrity of IT investment proposals

TCO = TRUE cost of ownership

feed the ostrich by .bala on flickr

Why do operating budgets become heavily backloaded towards the past, rather than towards future opportunity? Because too many organizations prefer to base business cases for a proposed system on corporate accounting policies, instead of forecasting the true cost of ownership, thereby creating an increasing legacy of sunk costs for years to come.

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perils of online anonymity and accountability

Jekyll and Hyde had it easy

strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Profound Whatever on flickr

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde had it easy – they only had each other to worry about. I have so many alter egos now that I need a database to keep track of them all.

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a cautionary tale about over-expectation and over-selling

Emperors and Sorcerers

skinner - sorcerer by blakewest on flickr

If IT had delivered every benefit promised over the past twenty years, our businesses would be so cash-rich by now that it would be positively embarrassing to read the Balance Sheets. But they are not. So can business Emperors still be seduced by technology Sorcerers?

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Return on Integrity

return of the light by AlicePopkorn on flickr

Many of us have seen the acronym ROI, used in a business proposal to claim hoped-for return on investment. But I believe that the term ROI more accurately reflects quite a different measure: Return on Integrity.

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