July, 2008

Watch these fun videos and give thought to upcoming events

It may be said that it is good to have 100% network availability. It may also be said that it is nice to choose when to relax, step away from the computer and perhaps enjoy the outdoors. Have a nice weekend. Hope you enjoy the videos (and give thought to the related site, results and future plans). Hope you also give thought to the upcoming Earth Hour. This post takes no credit. Inherent quality today and in the future is largely you, and thanks to you. Keep making things better. Thanks for doing so.

Read this fun look at a serious topic (network availability)

Looking for an enjoyable, funny, colorful post to read? Try this one! Although the topic is based on something fairly serious (Internet down!!!), it is an enjoyable read simply because of the fun way in which it is written (nice job Nicole!). Also enjoyed was a particular comment which referred to this fun site, It’s A Wonderful Internet (nice research find Asad!). Perhaps some readers of VIIP remember this post which is about a movie with a similar title. Perhaps some remember this post which contains serious numbers in terms of what a single hour of outage means to particular industries (millions per hour!!!).

Has your organization had a network outage recently?

If so feel free to share how long you were down, whether you and others accomplished objectives for the day regardless, and whether you or someone somehow tried to make a positive difference in the day for others regardless. Ideally some good came to the day. Ideally appropriate thanks was plentiful for the inherent quality brought to the day, or the risk management practiced, which allowed objectives to be accomplished regardless of the network unavailability.

Is the Business attitude toward IT improving in your organization?

The business attitude toward IT is generally improving in many organizations. Is it in yours?

For a few things that may help you inherently improve quality and value (and the business attitude toward IT), you may like to visit this CIO Briefing on SearchCIO.com. It contains ITIL case studies, product overviews and articles on related trends, strategies, execution, tools and technologies behind the scenes of successful ITIL utilization. You may also like to visit this interesting piece on SearchCIO.com that is associated with a Forrester Research survey; particularly if you are wondering whether it may be better for the CIO to report to the CFO or the CEO.

The relationship between CobiT and Val IT

A quick post to share awareness…

There is some potential interesting reading in Volume 3 2008 of CobiT Focus. Articles in the July issue include one on the relationship between CobiT and Val IT; and another on IT Risk Management. There are more however. You can view the newsletter here.

If pro athletes earn millions, perhaps IT Pros should also (some already are; read more)

In a world where quality must increasingly become a shared responsibility, perhaps you can say that Security is in My Job Description. Perhaps you can say other things are too. Perhaps you can say there are a million reasons to be a CQO and therefore to be a help to the CIO. For those who work hard at supporting the CIO, perhaps reading this will interest you: Who wants to be a CIO Millionaire?

A robot doing what is ultimately best

As noted within the book Inherent Quality Simplicity, our universe has bots and robots which in society’s future may be in every business and home as elements or extensions of us. This is perhaps a reason why it is important for positive energy to grow, flow and be elevated within all interactions and creations. To get an idea of a potential future (for example: i) when a robot may appear bad although it is following its directives and therefore doing what its creators thought was best; ii) when a robot may appear good, and more humanlike (?), although it overrode its directive to determine and do what seems ultimately best), perhaps watch the movie associated with the trailer below. This post takes no credit (hats off to the creative people at Disney and Pixar for the fun movie; official site here).

Quality blogging

Sharing awareness of a couple of new Quality related blogs: Quality Assurance and Project Management; Managing Software Development and QC/QA. Welcome aboard Jaideep and Zohair; look forward to reading your posts as well as related comments by others.

Help evolve quality and value towards being increasingly intrinsic and pervasive. Thank you for doing so.

Online sales, imagine

More than 17 million people per month use NexTag to research, compare, and save on products and services online. Imagine what you may be able to generate in online revenue, perhaps even from a simple ball cap.

This post takes no credit for the accomplishments of Hurley or NexTag. It does however share awareness and encourages you to think about possibilities for the future. You can achieve anything. This includes online sales.

Making the move to IPv6 before 2010

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts we will have run out of IP addresses by early 2011. (story here) … perhaps this isn’t a news flash for most, however perhaps the title of this post on Internet Evolution makes sense and more will be making the move to IPv6 in the near future: Forward March to IPv6 by 2010

As a somewhat interesting aside, “The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet’s addresses recently lost track of its own” (story here).

Taking a fresh look (e.g., Visual Studio Gallery; CIPS)

This post shares awareness of a couple of fresh looks: Visual Studio Gallery; CIPS. This weekend may be a good time in general for you and your organization to think about taking a fresh look at ways of making quality and value increasingly intrinsic and pervasive.

Compliance, Governance, Security (and ideally value that’s increasingly inherent)

Sounds like an interesting blog: Regulatory Compliance, Governance and Security. Welcome aboard Charles.

The Cloud, billing by consumption, and the future of business intelligence, continuity and competition

The best way to learn something very well may be to be responsible for teaching it. With that in mind this post has a few questions; your digging and answers may help others to learn.

Drawing upon this article (and 12 points stated within), is or isn’t cloud computing coming to your enterprise, and what database do you think may be largely associated with the Cloud and the future of innovative business intelligence? 

Whatever your answers may be to the above questions, the words below may be worth thinking about and internalizing.

Businesses are undergoing a fundamental shift in the way they make decisions. In today’s rapidly changing environment, decision-making occurs more frequently and at all levels of an organization. Having access to your company’s crucial information and using that business intelligence to achieve strategic enterprise-wide objectives differentiates highly successful businesses from potential competitors. (data sheet here) 

Will the Cloud help to evolve the intrinsic and pervasive value of your organization by 2020? How might moving up into the Cloud change things relative to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?

With respect to the latter question you may find these words interesting:

“The Meta Group reports that the downtime cost for each company in the Energy Industry is $2.8 million/hour; in the Telecom Industry $2.0 million/hour; and for Financial Institutions, $1.4 million/hour.” Who said it?

Advanced Test Automation Frameworks

Greg Annen’s background includes the creation of advanced test automation frameworks so it should be interesting reading posts in his new ITKE blog, QA Focus. Be sure to visit. Perhaps doing so will help you ensure the inherent quality of your test automation frameworks.

ISO-27002, SQL Server and the Windows Server 2008 Firewall

Step 0 of this recent post, SQL Server and the Windows Server 2008 Firewall, says ISO-27002 is worth reviewing. If you have, perhaps you agree.

Does the inherent quality of your security strategy include application of what you’ve read in ISO documents?

A World of Difference

Ideally all increasingly do what they can to help make things progressively better from various perspectives. This post takes no credit, simply shares awareness of a special CBC feature about some who may be helping to make a world of difference.