erp4itEnabling IT GovernanceApplication and Service Portfolio Management- February 24, 2007 A longstanding debate in IT service management is the relationship between Service and Application. Readers of my book and this blog know that I see an Application as a subtype of Service, not as a component of. The alternative view...http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/application_and.html "Configuration": decomposing a troublesome word- February 24, 2007 Thought for the day: Configuration is used in the sense of: A configuration item a discrete object of a given type. The router, the server, the software, the application. The configuration of the item itself - the value of...http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/configuration_d.html IT Financial Management Association- February 19, 2007 If you are looking for highly detailed, in-depth information on IT financial management, check out the IT Financial Management Association. I have just ordered all four of their books. Anyone else out there interested in Activity Based Costing as a...http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/it_financial_ma.html Value networks article- February 11, 2007 Useful article on value networks. I remain unconvinced, but there is some meat there. -ctbhttp://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/value_networks_.html Value network: a non-value-add critique of the value chain concept- February 10, 2007 2182007 This article and associated debate is receiving a lot of hits. It's essential for the newcomer at least to read my IT Value Chain (excerpted from my book). Also of interest may be: The two faces of demand management...http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/value_network_a.html Rodrigo Flores blog- February 10, 2007 This is long overdue - Rodrigo is CTO of Newscale and a real mover and shaker in ITSM, especially in the area of service catalogs and service request management. http:servicecatalogs.typepad.comservicecatalogs -ctbhttp://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/rodrigo_flores_.html The death of computing- February 5, 2007 Via Slashdot. One of the most sensible recent articles by an academic computer scientist I've seen. Echoes a lot of things I've been thinking. What he doesn't mention, however, is that the gaping hole he identifies between CS and industry...http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2007/02/the_death_of_co.html |