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		<title>Net Neutrality &#8211; 10/22/2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Tighe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US government is proposing broad new regulations for telecommunications and cable internet service providers. The new proposals appear to target specific providers for regulation and government oversight.  Specifically, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey has proposed the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009, or the “Net Neutrality” bill, outlining government policies to impose new governance and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joetighe.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5081400&#038;post=223&#038;subd=joetighe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery &#8211; The Art of Finding Reliable Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Tighe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of application engineers: those who say “Data is the problem” and those who say “Data are the problem.” The infrastructure team was provided systems discovery information from a variety of sources including internal IT, contractors and key IT support vendors. The team was delighted to see “current-state” systems information. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joetighe.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5081400&#038;post=202&#038;subd=joetighe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Content Management</title>
		<link>http://joetighe.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/federeted-media-infrastructure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Tighe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Organizations are creating media and information at an ever increasing pace.  Traditionally, electronic media and related information has resided on widely disparate technologies, locations and represented only operational transactions.  As organizations move operations to digital media and establish partnerships, via portals and extranets, with customers and suppliers, “digital media” becomes distributed among many parties. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joetighe.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5081400&#038;post=106&#038;subd=joetighe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IT  Contracts &#8211; Due Diligence</title>
		<link>http://joetighe.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/it-contracts-due-diligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Tighe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A Slight Misunderstanding   In one acquisition, a domestic technology outsourcing company was contracted to provide key IT services through a twelve month transition period.  Upon signature of the acqusition agreement, the integration transition team asked for the IT equipment access credentials.  The outsourced service provider, a well know M&#38;A services leader, refused to provide the credentials.  The problem turned out to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joetighe.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5081400&#038;post=76&#038;subd=joetighe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Application Inventory &#8211; Due Diligence</title>
		<link>http://joetighe.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/due-diligence-application-inventory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Tighe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Application Inventory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Application Inventory Strategy Acquire business application information during the due diligence phase.  Adopt a strategy that will identify the most critical applications in advance of the acquisition and focus the available task resources on critical business applications first.  Where the target company lacks application information, immediately allocate skilled M&#38;A IT resources to reverse engineer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joetighe.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5081400&#038;post=28&#038;subd=joetighe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Project Management Scaling</title>
		<link>http://joetighe.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/ma-it-infrastructure-project-management-scaling-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Tighe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Project Management Scale – Acquisition Integration   Be careful how you scale the information technology integration project management effort.  You might get it.    IT Infrastructure integration efforts can be brought to a standstill by excessive project management controls.   In one mid-size enterprise organization merger, the project management office (PMO) was often a valued [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joetighe.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5081400&#038;post=20&#038;subd=joetighe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supply Chain Management</title>
		<link>http://joetighe.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Tighe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is essential to perform an assessment of the supply chain efficiency during the due diligence phase of the merger and acquisition process. The target company will probably not support the overall merger/acquisition goals.    Tip: Set up an independent M&#38;A supply chain. In a recent acquistion, the buyer chose to use the target company [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joetighe.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5081400&#038;post=1&#038;subd=joetighe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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