Charles E. Belford

Articles by Charles E. Belford

Good Technology Management is Never Enough

Organizations that depend on IT need good technology management. That's obvious. What is not as obvious (except to good technology managers) is that good technology management is never enough. Unless you've got executives who understand the strategic challenges and opportunities of this technology and how to leverage it to meet their business objectives, your organization will always take a back seat to those organizations whose management actively accept as their responsibility the task of creating new business value from IT.

In Praise of Asset Management

Y2K robbed management of its technological innocence, but it didn

Raising the IT Bar for Senior Managers

Customer relationship management (CRM) solutions are hot these days, and becominig hotter. Newer versions combine with data-mining...

Answering the Call for an E-strategy

Lucky you. You've been tasked to work up an e-strategy for discussion at your company's management retreat....

Turning Disasters into Opportunities

Good news stories about the next IT-based business solution rarely grab management's interest. But bad news can...

Beyond

Talk is cheap. In the computer industry, it's cheaper. In the consulting business, it's as cheap as...

Your Web Site As Sandbox

Planning a military operation has always been a tricky business.Rather than standing around scratching diagrams in the dirt with a stick, commanders ...

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