tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55497690058495170892012-02-18T21:01:30.414ZEnterprise 2.0 in general describes the liberation of often previously inaccessible corporate information to be opened up to general discoverability, consumption, and reuse using a Web-based modelClient Solutions Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847137261134455390noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549769005849517089.post-8802873907837653312008-04-03T12:09:00.001+01:002008-04-03T12:10:45.029+01:00

As an organisation do you encourage your employees to suggest ideas for improving your business? If you don’t have a formal process by which ideas can be submitted and assessed, then chances are you are going to miss out on some very valuable information that is freely available.Some recent research by Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder which investigated the idea systems in over 150

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This month’s edition (March 2008) of the Harvard Business Review contains an article by David Upton and Bradley Staats called ‘Radically Simple IT’. It proposes an approach to implementing new IT systems that is preferable to the ‘big bang’ or ‘incremental’ methods favoured by most organisations.The ‘Big Bang’ method involves spending a long period of time developing a system and then

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Robert Graham, in an article titled ‘Beyond the Triple Constraints’ makes the case that project managers need to consider contribution to shareholder value as an additional variable. Anyone who has studied project management will be familiar with the triple constraints of time, quality and cost. Graham suggests that in the modern business environment focusing on these constraints alone is not

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TeamTrack is used by companies around the world in a myriad of different ways. In fact Serena knows of over 600 different applications that have been created using TeamTrack and they estimate that there are hundreds if not thousands more that they do not know about.In this series of articles we will look in detail at some of the applications that Client Solutions has delivered to customers in

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Monte Carlo Simulation is a relatively new technique in the field of mathematics that uses simulation rather than precise analytical calculations to arrive at an estimated value. In essence it introduces noise into a mathematical analysis. In the real world, actual outcomes seldom match predicted outcomes that are based on probabilities. ‘Noise’ or unanticipated influences often encroach on a

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In this tutorial I want to show you how you can use HTML to add pictures to your TeamTrack solutions in order to make them more interactive and colourful. A picture that uses shadowing can also add depth to your solution making it richer and more appealing.The technique basically is made up of the following steps.Make the graphic that you want to add and save it as a jpg file [e.g.

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If you think about it, projects and investment funds have a lot in common. Both involve an initial outlay of costs but the hope is that they will bring a financial gain to the investor in the future. Given the constraints of finite resources, the investor will need to be clever about his choices. Selecting one project or investment fund will naturally exclude the selection of others. The

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This interesting blog article by Jeremy Burton looks at the focus Microsoft is putting on Modelling as the ‘Holy Grail’ of programming. The idea is that programmers will be able to develop applications in the future simply and quickly by linking together services using a graphical tool.The developer essentially draws a picture of a process (model). When she is happy with that process she can turn

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Many organisations have a Microsoft SharePoint system in place which they use primarily as a document library. Often it can grow to become a monster that is full of redundant documents and is impossible to navigate and maintain. TeamTrack, a business process management tool, can be used with SharePoint to enforce a more controlled solution. To understand how this can be done consider the

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Most of us will remember building things with Lego as a child. Lego, the company, sold bricks of various sizes and shapes and left it up to the imagination of children to use them to build whatever they wanted. The results were often very complex models that the Lego designers had never even considered would be built when they sold the bricks.Over the years, Lego has brought out new components.

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Serena estimates that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of TeamTrack applications in existence. This means that although you may have installed TeamTrack in your organisation to manage a particular process, chances are, you could be getting more value out of it.In this brief article I want to give you some examples of ways that organisations are using TeamTrack.1. NDA approvalIn the US,

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Most organisations have war stories of projects that were never completed or failed to deliver on what they promised. It is far too common an occurrence. A report from The Standish Group in 2004 entitled “CHAOS Chronicles”, which studied over 40,000 projects, showed that project success rates had more than doubled to 34% from their previous study a decade earlier! 34% is still a success rate that

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According to Gartner, Business Process Modelling is one of the top technologies to focus on in 2008. While BPM is not technically a ‘technology’ (it is more a field of knowledge), it must be in place before really useful SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) applications can be developed.This supports comments in an earlier blog article where I suggested that more formal automation of business

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It has been said that Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is largely a discussion about maturity. The more mature your key processes, the better your IT governance. As an organisation’s IT governance processes mature, it becomes more successful at doing the right projects right.As discussed in a previous article, where project management focuses on the execution of projects, PPM looks at

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Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is often misunderstood to be simply a method of managing multiple projects. This misses out on the key benefit of PPM which is to do with aligning projects with the strategic goals and direction of the organisation. To assign the PPM function to the Project Management Office (PMO) is to severely limit the advantages that can be achieved from it.The core

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The business environment in which we all operate has changed fundamentally over the last decade or so. The need for organisations to employ some form of process automation is greater than ever. So what are these environmental changes and how have they impacted businesses? In this article I will look at five environmental factors that every organisation must consider.1. GlobalisationThe Internet

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