CMM / CMMI – Evolution, not revolution Your business card reads “project manager.” You just paid your annual PMI membership dues. You’ve been to training, regularly participate in seminars and sleep with scholarly journals under your pillow (osmosis). The methodology on your desk is almost worn...
MADISON – It’s no secret Wisconsin fares poorly when it comes to attracting federal dollars. In annual 50-state rankings, Wisconsin scores in the bottom five in getting a return on the federal tax dollars its citizens send to Uncle Sam. In bringing home the bacon,...
COBIT – Governance or anarchy - your choice! So what does government have to do with continuous improvement? Oh sorry! I didn’t mean government -- I meant governance! There’s a relationship between good government and good governance. You could say that government caused governance or, at...
A popular concept in business today is “performance-based management.” Like other vacuous terms prevalent in the management vernacular such as “customer-centric,” “value added,” and “mission critical,” it has all sorts of implied and sometimes contradictory meanings. ...
It's as if a collective "a-ha!" hit the brains of some of the Internet's earliest entrepreneurs, an a-ha that is spawning a new generation of Web browser tools designed to make finding and using Web-based information much easier than it is today....
As is so often the case with any form of legislation, each individual law represents a compromise built around a coalition of diverse forces. In the case of energy and electricity, one needs to look no further than the way most states reward regulated utilities...
Strategy and technology combine into one of the most volatile mixtures available to modern business. After numerous singed eyebrows or much worse, we’ve learned that randomly throwing matches at that combination is not a good idea. Unfortunately, many organizations seem to have translated that lesson...
A joint effort of industry, government, and more than 200 universities (including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University), Internet2 is leading the way toward revolutionary new network technologies and high-speed Internet-based applications. But effective access to Internet2’s main infrastructure is still limited. In...
MADISON – A few days before Forbes magazine released its annual rankings of best cities for business and careers, author and futurist Joel Kotkin spoke in Madison about the rise of small and medium-sized communities as places to live and work. His conclusion was simple:...
Web sites have endured a hard struggle, and somehow survived where other traditional marketing tools and old principals failed. Now the same sites and domain names must face harsher realities once again, all to ensure high visibility and exposure. Today without visibility, on e-commerce, Web...