 Peter Krass
Senior Managing Editor/Features,
InformationWeek
pkrass@cmp.com
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Selective Outsourcing: Better, Not Bigger
Is bigger really better? On the highway, absurdly overpowered Explorers, Grand Cherokees, and Range Rovers clog the lanes. In sports, Mike Tyson gets an incredible $30 million (before chewing charges) for losing. And on the desktop, bloated apps require even home PCs to have 16 Mbytes of RAM. It seems the only things getting smaller are IT outsourcing contracts.
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James I. Cash J
r.
The James E. Robison professor of business administration at Harvard University.
He can be contacted at
jcash@hbs.edu
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Management Agenda: IT And PR: Living In Spin
The evolution of Web tools and applications means that IT and public relations must work to redefine media relationships.
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 Stephen Manes
Stephen Manes has been writing about PCs and their frustrated users for 15 years. He is the co-author of
Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented An Industry
(Touchstone/Simon and Schuster).
2784258@mcimail.com
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Desktop Agenda: Write Once, Run Where?
Tired of the endless carping about the benefits of Java? Maybe we can learn a lesson from the fate of a system called 'p.'
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 Lawrence Magid
Author of
The Little PC Book
(Peachpit Press).
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You can reach him at
magid@latimes.com
or visit
his Web site
.
Management Agenda: Those Oldies But Goodies
Lotus and Corel have found there's still a spot in the market for application suites written for Windows 3.x operating systems.
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 Cheryl Currid
President of Currid & Co., a technology consulting firm in Houston.
cheryl@currid.com
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Push, But Don't Shove
Push technology can work--but too often, we end up with more information than we want. How do we kill the push monster?
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 John Tibbetts and Barbara Bernstein
Partners in Kinexis, a San Francisco consulting firm.
kserver@kinexis.com
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Application Development: Consulting In The Badlands
When you sign on for a project, here are 10 forces that are beyond your control and may hobble your best efforts.
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 Herbert W. Lovelace
Chief information officer at a multibillion-dollar international company. Herb practices his day job under an alias, and frequently changes the names of colleagues mentioned in these columns in order to protect
the guilty.
He can be reached at
secret@cmp.com
. He promises to provide real answers (with whimsical comments) to your
E-mailed questions in
Ask The Secret CIO
.
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Secret CIO: So Much For Helping Morale
No one likes to be laid off, but some company policies can make it an unnecessarily humiliating experience.
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 Bernd Harzog
An Atlanta consultant specializing in software vendor product and marketing strategy.
He can be reached at
berndh@mindspring.com
.
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Between The Lines: Networking Unplugged
Big software vendors don't provide what's needed for portable network computing. What choices does that leave you?
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 William M. Ulrich
President of Tactical Strategy Group Inc., a Soquel, Calif., consulting firm specializing in architecture transition strategies, and is co-author of
The Year 2000 Software Crisis: Challenge of the Century
(Yourdon Press,
1997).
He can be reached at
tsginc@cruzio.com
.
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The Millennium Crunch: Users Must Be Leaders
Business executives must move from the role of passive bystander to that of joint owner of the year 2000 solution.
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 In My Humble Opinion
In My Humble Opinion is an occasional column expressing the opinions of
InformationWeek
readers. Submissions can be sent to
IMHO@cmp.com
. Only writers being considered for publication will be contacted.
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Legacy Of Legacy Systems
By Dick Bellaver, associate director of the Center for Information and Communications Science at Ball State University in Indiana.
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