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A synopsys from the Ethics Smethics Point of Vue and other reasons why I'll never work with Michael Schrage   http://www.cio.com.au/article/185611/ethics_shmethics/ Do the right thing or implement the system correctly. Well this statement is clearly flawed. If your IT department cannot implement a system correctly than you as the CIO have failed at developing a team with the right skills, Wilcox et al have cited that team composition and dynamic are of prime importance on ERP and CRM development. (Willcocks, Sykes, 2000) i If such difficulties arise you might be better off seeking employment as a used car salesmen or tax collector or some other business where a lack of ethics is a good fit.  If you believe that withholding layoff information will help get your projects completed, it’s probably going to be your last project as CIO since the company will have serious issues gaining customer confidence once employee confidence and trust is lost. ...

"The world must actually be such as to generate ignorance and inquiry; doubt and hypothesis, trial and temporal conclusions... The ultimate evidence of genuine hazard, contingency, irregularity and indeterminateness in nature is thus found in the occurrence of thinking. " - John Dewy (1958) i The software enterprise consists of a vast forest of applications with each serving it's own genus and function, each program and system maintaining it's relevant business function. This “ Ecosystem” has many dependent factors however it's usually a homogeneous environment, where most systems within an organization are similar in nature or utilize a similar base computing system to ensure that function and form are not chaotic. To take an organization that has a “Chaotic” environment and standardize it is to undergo the process of maturity or the cyclical process of software and hardware audits according to existing standards and determine which gaps...

Computing has many capabilities and information technology is now a driver for most business ventures including multi-billon dollar companies such as Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Facebook and Amazon. The following five basic capabilities are available to any organization via investments in computing infrastructure. Long term record storage The advent of inexpensive desktop and pocket computing has had as much of an influence on business and the Gutenberg press did on the dissemination of information over two hundred years ago. Computing  facilities now house all the records for most organizations in a digital format on a file system usually residing either on a series hard drives or a highly available and redundant Storage Array Network; Having these commuting resources allows an organization or business the ability to store records of all practices and procedures; these include records of communications and meetings in the form of E-mail and minutes letters. We ...