http://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/02/10/the-curse-of-the-tin-woodman/ Open information and technology. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:40:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/02/10/the-curse-of-the-tin-woodman/#comment-399 Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:03:17 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/02/10/the-curse-of-the-tin-woodman/#comment-399 [...] The curse Tim Woodman une métaphore qui décrit et explique à la perfection une situation que l’on rencontre trop souvent dans les systèmes d’information des grosses organisations. [...]

]]> http://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/02/10/the-curse-of-the-tin-woodman/#comment-398 Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:53:56 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/02/10/the-curse-of-the-tin-woodman/#comment-398 [...] A great blog on the IT in large enterprises or Government. The author starts out with the interesting story of Tinman from The Wizard of Oz. He explains how a package acquired and gradually modified to meet an organizations requirements. In principle, buying instead of building is a great idea — it lets a company share development costs with many others while concentrating its limited IT resources on its core specialties. This approach works, however, only when a product does something that is well understood and widely implemented (i.e. it’s a commodity). [...]

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