HP recently held a conference to promote the idea that its customers should transform IT just like it did. Apparently, this strategy is centered around blowing up your whole IT organization at once and rebuilding it from scratch. Information Week rightly doubts that many enterprises other than IT equipment manufactures will follow HP's lead.
But the government tends to operate on a megaproject basis. Maybe this is a good model for what they should be doing. Certainly major changes are needed ...
Curt Monash is a leading analyst of and strategic advisor to the software industry. Praised by Lawrence J. Ellison for his "unmatched insight into technology and marketplace trends," Curt was the software/services industry's #1 ranked stock analyst while at PaineWebber, Inc., where he served as a First Vice President until 1987. He subsequently co-founded Evernet, Inc., a $40 million networking systems integrator. Since 1990, he has owned and operated Monash Research, an analysis and advisory firm covering software-intensive sectors of the technology industry. In that period he also has been co-founder, president, or chairman of several other technology startups.
Curt has served as a strategic advisor to many well-known firms, including Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, AOL, CA, and Netezza. Curt earned a Ph.D. in mathematics (Game Theory) from Harvard University. He has held faculty positions in mathematics, economics and public policy at Harvard, Yale, and Suffolk universities.
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