Dec 16
20 IT mistakes
A good list from Infoworld of the top 20 IT mistakes. Some of these apply only to larger entities (such as offshoring), several are independent of size and budget. I’ve pulled the 20 out and outlined them below. Enjoy and please contact us if you’re making these mistakes!
- Botching your outsourcing strategy
- Dismissing open source—or bowing before it
- Offshoring with blinders on
- Discounting internal security threats
- Failing to secure a fluid perimeter
- Ignoring security for handhelds
- Promoting the wrong people
- Mishandling change management
- Mismanaging software development
- Letting engineers do their own QA
- Developing Web apps for IE only
- Relying on a single network performance
- Throwing bandwidth at a network problem
- Permitting weak passwords
- Never sweating the small stuff
- Clinging to prior solutions
- Falling behind on emerging technologies
- Underestimating PHP
- Violating the KISS principle
- Being a slave to vendor marketing strategies
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