A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these
sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone,
and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the
bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed
in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my
talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the
present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than
now.

In der Computerwoche vom 17.April wird über Outsourcing Risiken gesprochen:

Bogota, Bangkok, Johannesburg: Wo Outsourcing am gefährlichsten ist

Manchmal siegt einfach Dreistigkeit, um Aufmerksamkeit zu bekommen.

After years the grief and complaints of the external consultants get worse and worse. There is still enough work for nearly everybody but in reality the wrong people are in the wrong place. The top cause of the malaise are the recruitment agencies that are often totally incompetent to match requirements.

Failure Pattern: Staffing and Choosing the Consulting Services

An excerpt from the "Anatomy of IT Failure"

IT projects like the big SAP implementations are in there vast majority highly pioneering projects.

Only those companies who are able to efficiently exploit the symbiosis of collaborating technologies will be able to survive the battle for new market shares. SOA is just the acronym for the complex that solves the dilemma. Logosworld offers mentoring your path to SOA and the new world of Enterprise 2.0

Blue Elefants are advisor across the world hence nothing seems to be more natural for us as distributing IT tasks. But we realized that the past offshoring hype was expensive and ended often in a disaster. But the cupables are not the offshoring firms but the way how projects have been executed. So created the Managed Quality Offshoring , which is based on a factory approach. We choose seasoned masters as bridgeheads that know both the culture of customer's and factory's site.

The SOABOX is a pre-configured (Windows Sharepoint Based)server appliance that serves as a plug-and-play Enterprise Service Bus. SOABOX is loaded with middleware for monitoring and orchestration of data exchange and a large variety of commodity services and popular adapters like those for SAP, SOAP, XMLRPC or JSon and several popular development frameworks like .NET, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP etc.

Hologramming: Governance and risk containment for Holistic Change and SOA

The methodology blends the ideas of chaos theory, cybernetics and SCRUM agile development into a holistic meta-concept.

Syntegration and Hologramming

Die Syntegration® ist eine Management-Methode, die 1991 vom Erfinder der Management-Kybernetik (Basis des St. Galler Management Ansatzes) Prof. Dr. Stafford Beer entwickelt wurde.

Es handelt sich um einen nach kybernetischen Grundsätzen strukturierten Prozess zur Entscheidungs- und Konsensfindung, der den Wirkungsgrad im Austausch von Informationen und in der Integration unterschiedlicher Sichtweisen maximiert.

Unterschiedliche Perspektiven finden in kurzer Zeit zur bestmöglichen Lösung einer Fragestellung zusammen.