If your IT shop isn't using earned value management, you may want to start thinking about it. EVM, which has its roots in the U.S. Department of Defense, is moving into private industry. More important, it's coming to IT.
When David Lindahl added a new position to his unit, he didn't hire a programmer, a business analyst or a network administrator. He hired an anthropologist.
The Australian Defence Organisation believes that education advances its mission.
Workers at Excel Switching spent months studying successful Web sites, mapping out a strategy and implementing their own Internet vision. But the planning couldn't eliminate a common problem: internal debates.
Tens of thousands of e-mails pass through the offices of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. every month.
US health insurer BlueCross BlueShield has spent between US$3 million and $3.5 million over the past three years on a storage-area network (SAN) that includes 40TB of storage.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Inc. has spent between US$3 million and $3.5 million over the past three years on a storage-area network (SAN) that includes 40TB of storage.