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Brunel University's Business Class: Listen and get IT right
Comment It is all too easy to dive in to IT projects, thinking they are a solution in themselves. In the second in their series of columns for silicon.com, Brunel University's Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett advocate beginning with one of the... [14 Mar 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: How to avoid IT project failure
Comment In the first of a new series exclusively for silicon.com, Brunel University's Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett look into large IT project failure and ways to avoid it. Are users missing the obvious precautions? [13 Feb 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: Getting IT teams to work together better
Comment From extreme programming to moving IT pros around the business and out of 'comfort zones', Brunel's Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett reckon there are various ways to get more out of staff, helping them develop an agile mindset. [18 Jun 2003]
Brunel University’s Business Class: Business content
Comment Last time Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett started looking at how to understand what your business really does, so allowing a model-driven approach to software. Now it's time to think about content. [20 Jan 2004]
Brunel University's Business Class: This is how you marry IT and business
Comment In the third part of their exclusive series for silicon.com Brunel's Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett say three Cs - communication, consultation and coordination - are the key to the successful integration of IT systems and business. [15 Apr 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: How to turn a mistake into a positive event
Comment National football team managers always lament the time they get with players after games, before they return to their clubs, to go through what went well and what went wrong. This month Brunel's Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett say the... [16 May 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: Create a living IT system
Comment Brunel University's Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett ask how organisations can create living, breathing systems. What are the right approaches? Everyone who’s worked in IT will, at some time, feel that their particular project or system... [19 Sep 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: A programme management primer
Comment Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett seek to clearly define 'programme management' with a view to smashing two assumptions - that it is simply a scaled-up version of project management and that a 'one size fits all' approach will work. [04 Jun 2004]
Brunel University's Business Class: How to stick to long-term goals
Comment It may be 'bleeding obvious' but according to Brunel's Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett too many good teams lose sight of what they're really trying to achieve. So how do you make sure the business gets the most out of IT again and again? [16 Jul 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: IT projects should be allowed to fail
Comment Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett, leaders of the Fluid Business research project at Brunel University, argue that project failure should be viewed more often than not as a success Many IT projects exist to create a link between IT and... [23 Aug 2004]
Brunel University's Business Class: Motivating and rewarding
Comment Developing a rewards-based culture is a challenge most businesses grapple with. Brunel's Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett shed light on some of the options. Motivation is a tough nut to crack. [13 Aug 2003]
Brunel University’s Business Class: Understanding your business
Comment Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett look beyond model-driven architecture, stressing what a business does is far more important than how it does it… Last month’s article gave an outline of the benefits - and pitfalls - of adopting a model... [17 Dec 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: How to put people first
Comment This week Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett ask why, when every boss invariably says that they put staff first, few companies really make the right moves. A recent survey here at Brunel revealed the lack of strategic thought invested in... [22 Oct 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: Building a model information system
Comment Model driven architecture can sound complicated but this month Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett explain how this evolution is really about making IT easier - and more effective. The IT industry has, for some time, been talking about... [14 Nov 2003]
Oracle's revolting shareholders, Amazon grace and internet traffic booms
Comment As a result, a number of class action suits are in the pipeline. There are a number of class actions that have resulted from this alleged misrepresentation - including a pension fund and a number of law firms. [18 Mar 2001]
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