Earlier this year, amidst intense rabble rousing to herald the arrival of 08, I had what at the time seemed like a vision. Perhaps even an epiphany. Dare I say…a revelation. Admittedly, most things that penetrated my champagne haze were met with an internal “dude…that is a great idea” but unlike my notion of genetically [...]

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IT Project Failures has been examining the all to frequent phenomenon of government IT project failures. Central to the analysis - typically opaque bureaucracies shy away from revealing their internal machinations, especially when it has to do with something as complex as large IT projects.
What can government leaders can do to improve the situation? 

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Nothing makes me think more about Enterprise 2.0 than a 70$ haircut. I mean, I need to think about something other than the outrage that is this decent-bar-tab-priced grooming ritual. If I don’t, I fear I may intentionally spear the slight French man architecting my coif with his own clearly expensive shears. (Sacre bleu!) It [...]

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As I was sitting in a taxi in downtown Amman, my mind was wandering to various familiar topics. My upcoming sharwarma sandwich (so tasty), the greatness of IU basketball (Go Hoosiers), and of course Enterprise 2.0 (also very tasty). It was at this point, not 5 milliseconds after contemplating the turnover disparity of the [...]

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For the past few years, I have spent most of my professional time providing various IT solutions for clients within the international donor and foreign aid community. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this arena, it is comprised of organizations such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World [...]

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