(Strategy Page - USA) The NMCI (Navy Marine Corps Intranet) project, a $9 billion effort to improve security and networking, has encountered a lot of unexpected problems.  

A Cure Worse Than the Disease

Any of you fellow parents out there know that the wish list letter to Santa is a big deal. My daughter Rachel had her letter in the mail on December 1. Anything Barbie or Bratz is an instant winner. Frankly, I think they all look like cheap harlots.

The intranet wish list for Santa

Corps planners are hashing out something bigger than the $11.9 billion computer network leathernecks and sailors love to hate.

Navy, Corps plan next-generation computer network

An intranet is about 20% technology, 80% people and process. To change or redesign the intranet has in fact little to do with design, and everything to do with change management.

Changing intranet, changing attitudes

Users Unhappy With Massive Navy Intranet, GAO Says

(Computerworld) -- The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet program has yet to meet user expectations even though $3.7 billion has been spent on the effort over six years, according to a report released earlier this month by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

December 18, 2006

The best IT advice

I can’t speak much to punch cards and wave division multiplexing doesn’t resonate with me but I can sure speak well to the remaining advice and recommendations.