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Actual for You - Provisioning/User Management System Upgrades: Part I -- Ten Reasons Why Not To Do An Upgrade
Business relationships need to provide you with the business you need. Whether you use an alliance, a leads group or a Power Team, you need to make sure that you are dealing with someone that is reliable, honest, and ethical. There have been many horror stories with relationships that have gone sour because one person did not live up to their side of the bargain. I worked with a person a few years back that wanted to develop a publishing house. He had the money and I had the expertise. This was great, but I was blind as to the pitfalls. The first thing we did was form a fifty-fifty partnership. He decided that I could be President of the company and he would take up the vice-presidents position. It worked well for a few months until he decided that he did not like the way I was managing t
2. Infrastructure is Not Sexy.
The budget is there but fixing an existing provisioning system is not considered a priority. Sadly, many companies see broken systems or processes as the “cost of doing business.” Or companies will do only the minimum upgrade to keep
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The above is a real world example. It may happen if a provisioning/user management system is not meeting company needs and there are no plans to upgrade.
This is a two part series on the dark side of provisioning/user management upgrade projects. Upgrade will be defined here to include new hardware and software, and also the supporting environment of business processes, roles, organizations, business rules, etc. This article will discuss reasons why these projects do not get started or fail to reach completion. The next article will cover how to overcome these reasons.
Here are ten reasons why the needed systems improvement are not implemented:
1. No Budget
IT budgets are frozen or only the most needed projects get funded. This will impact hardware/software maintenance, hiring or contracting needed resources, and more.
2. Infrastructure is Not Sexy.
The budget is there but fixing an existing provisioning system is not considered a priority. Sadly, many companies see broken systems or processes as the “cost of doing business.” Or companies will do only the minimum upgrade to keep
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The above is a real world example. It may happen if a provisioning/user management system is not meeting company needs and there are no plans to upgrade.
This is a two part series on the dark side of provisioning/user management upgrade projects. Upgrade will be defined here to include new hardware and software, and also the supporting environment of business processes, roles, organizations, business rules, etc. This article will discuss reasons why these projects do not get started or fail to reach completion. The next article will cover how to overcome these reasons.
Here are ten reasons why the needed systems improvement are not implemented:
1. No Budget
IT budgets are frozen or only the most needed projects get funded. This will impact hardware/software maintenance, hiring or contracting needed resources, and more.
2. Infrastructure is Not Sexy.
The budget is there but fixing an existing provisioning system is not considered a priority. Sadly, many companies see broken systems or processes as the “cost of doing business.” Or companies will do only the minimum upgrade to keep
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This is a two part series on the dark side of provisioning/user management upgrade projects. Upgrade will be defined here to include new hardware and software, and also the supporting environment of business processes, roles, organizations, business rules, etc. This article will discuss reasons why these projects do not get started or fail to reach completion. The next article will cover how to overcome these reasons.
Here are ten reasons why the needed systems improvement are not implemented:
1. No Budget
IT budgets are frozen or only the most needed projects get funded. This will impact hardware/software maintenance, hiring or contracting needed resources, and more.
2. Infrastructure is Not Sexy.
The budget is there but fixing an existing provisioning system is not considered a priority. Sadly, many companies see broken systems or processes as the “cost of doing business.” Or companies will do only the minimum upgrade to keep
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Here are ten reasons why the needed systems improvement are not implemented:
1. No Budget
IT budgets are frozen or only the most needed projects get funded. This will impact hardware/software maintenance, hiring or contracting needed resources, and more.
2. Infrastructure is Not Sexy.
The budget is there but fixing an existing provisioning system is not considered a priority. Sadly, many companies see broken systems or processes as the “cost of doing business.” Or companies will do only the minimum upgrade to keep
Many complain that CEO make too much money, as the average is some 300% more than the rank and file. If the companies were doing well that is no problem, yet if the company is rolling in the profits it would make sense and the shareholders might agree that this is a good policy, as it is a reward for success. Unfortunately many poorly performing companies are still paying the CEO too much. The CEOs say it is very difficult to run a company in bankruptcy or which is losing money? Yet, if that is the defense then the reward comment for profitable companies makes no sense. After all if we pay for success we must take away for lack of success. So if a company goes Chapter 11, then the CEO ought to give all the money back that he earned in destroying the company and taking away all those jobs
2. Infrastructure is Not Sexy.
The budget is there but fixing an existing provisioning system is not considered a priority. Sadly, many companies see broken systems or processes as the “cost of doing business.” Or companies will do only the minimum upgrade to keep IT infrastructure running. But beware, as once was said in a well-written article “Cheap is Expensive.” It will come back to haunt you.
3. No Technical, Management, Or Financial Champions
It may be a great idea but there may not exist anyone who can sell this at the mid or upper management level in your company. Also, you may experience “champion burnout” – where past champions who unsuccessfully tried to sell the upgrade no longer wish to do it again.
4. Business Case Is Hard to Write
Only by including both “soft” and “hard” savings can can one get the true picture of an upgrade’s return. “Soft” costs include user login downtime and productivity declines (cost of finding the current information about a person, document, or hardware device), increased calls to helpdesk and decline of helpdesk staff morale) and more. However, “soft” savings are often considered irrelevant by management and usually the numbers aren’t there if you rely on hard savings alone.
5. Can’t Agree on Software/Hardware
For various reasons, technical types cannot always agree which is the best software to meet company needs. Differences may be over preferred operating system, vendor, hardware, software configuration and features, or political/personal whims.
6. Undocumented Current Environment
Perhaps due to turnover or lack of time, no one has documented (or recently updated) what the “AS- IS” user management/provisioning environmen
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