This is Dennis McDonald’s Blog’s MANAGING TECHNOLOGY Section.
Scroll down for topics such as Collaboration, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Disaster Response, R&D Management, Expertise Management, Knowledge Transfer, Mergers & Acquisitions, Associations, Personal Data Ownership, Social Network Portability, and Digital Rights Management. A complete list is here. For specific topics use the “search this site” box.
Entries in Cost Analysis (9)
There's Nothing Wrong with the Social Networking Industry that Some Honest (Cost) Information Won't Fix
Jeremiah Owyang’s LiveBlog: What’s Wrong with the White Label Social Networking Industry?, especially if you read the comments, delivers a good snapshot of the gaps that still exist between product evangelism and the realities of implementing specialized online social networks.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Networking, Standards, Enterprise 2.0, Cost Analysis, Social Media, Adoption, Strategy, Social Network Portability, Software, DataPortability
|
4 Comments
How Corporate RSS Supports Collaboration and Innovation
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out corporate IT manager Jim MacLennan’s RSS: Underappreciated Web 2.0 in the Enterprise blog post.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Collaboration, Project Management, Innovation, RSS, Cost Analysis, Tagging, Metrics, Email, Adoption, PowerPoint, Knowledge Transfer
|
3 Comments
Are Collaboration Tools Part of the IT Infrastructure or Part of the Application Portfolio?
I was interviewed yesterday by a Forrester Research staff member about how CIO’s (Chief information Officers) should approach the implementation of collaboration tools (click here for a list of blog posts related to “collaboration”). We talked about the usual adoption issues related to “web 2.0” applications within the enterprise.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Governance, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Enterprise 2.0, Cost Analysis, Strategic Planning, Software
|
2 Comments
Ten Realities of Managing and Using Technology to Generate Business Value
Years of managing, studying, developing, consulting on, and using information technology have taught me about the realities of using technology for business advantage. Here are ten of these realities:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Best Practices, Standards, Business Models, Cost Analysis, Technology, Market Research, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Lists
|
Post a Comment
OECD Publishes Report on International Counterfeiting and Piracy
The OECD has published the Executive Summary of a major report on international trade involving counterfeited and pirated products. The report, The Economic Impact of Counterfeiting and Piracy, estimates that international trade in 2005 involving counterfeit or pirated works totalled $200 billion US.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Piracy, Cost Analysis, China, Counterfeiting
|
Post a Comment
Followup to "Is DRM a 'Tax' on the Intellectual Property Supply Chain?"
On May 2, 2007 I published Is DRM a “Tax” on the Intellectual Property Supply Chain? where I compared DRM (Digital Rights Management) to a “tax.” I’ve received several comments and emails with different perspectives and I wanted to follow up.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, iTunes, Cost Analysis, iPod, DMCA
|
Comments Off
The Justification of Enterprise Web 2.0 Project Expenditures
Given the difficulty of doing Return on Investment (ROI) analysis for IT projects, how do you justify an Enterprise Web 2.0 project? In a comment he left on my How Much Will Your Enterprise Web 2.0 Project Cost? post, Vinnie Mirchandani suggested that one place to start would be to look at the criteria used in the past for evaluating large IT investments.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Web Office, Enterprise 2.0, Cost Analysis, Strategy, Strategic Planning
|
3 Comments
System Integration Costs and Enterprise Web 2.0 Projects
When considering the potential system integration costs of an enterprise web 2.0 project, one of the first things to do is to identify potential system-related “ripple effects” (if any) of introducing an enterprise web 2.0 system into the organization. We also need to consider the cost implications of addressing and managing these ripple effects over time.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Project Management, Enterprise 2.0, Cost Analysis
|
Post a Comment
How Much Will Your Enterprise Web 2.0 Project Cost?
Professor Andrew McAfee has an excellent series of posts related to the application of “return on investment” (ROI) calculations to enterprise IT. His posts deserve a close reading. He gets some flack for seeming to argue against measurement, but as he explains in his second post, that’s not his point; he’s basically saying that too many business cases that rely on a haphazard or incomplete calculation of IT benefits are flawed, incorrect, incomplete, or self serving.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Web 2.0, Business Models, Enterprise 2.0, Cost Analysis
|
1 Comment