Instant Science

Here you can find some personal reflections on issues concerning my professional interests.

These include Business Process Management, Organization Design, and the use of information technology in a wide sense.

Disclaimer: This blog is not an official Gartner publication. The content represents my personal point of view, but not necessarily the official standpoint of my employer.

Any comments are welcome!

Monday, December 13, 2010

"Hacker Group" Anonymous

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The recent operations against Wikileak opponents and anti-piracy organizations have brought Anonymous back into the media spotlight. However...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

What is a project charter good for?

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A project charter issued by senior management formally authorizes the initiation of a project and gives the project manager authority to app...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Freedom of speech

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The well known Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan has been sentenced to 19.5 years in prison and a financial fine. And for what? For exerci...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Remember Henry Fayol?

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In my previous post, I referred to a paper by the Institute of Strategic Studies at the United States Army War College ( Unity of Command in...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Organizational mess - the SOF case (unclassified)

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I have been interested in issues in multi-dimensional organizational structures for quite a while. The problems related to matrix-style orga...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Total Value of IT

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Together with a team of franchising organizations, Gartner and itSMF (IT Service Management Forum) are offering a product under the name of ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Lead Work Area

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I saw the following sign recently. Guess where ... Yes, a shooting range. I believe that there might be some lead around ... especially the ...
Friday, April 10, 2009

IT Cost Containment

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Over the past months, driven by the economic crisis, cost containment and reduction has become a major topic. Also the CIO business expectat...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Project Portfolio Management

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Due to the current macro-economic situation, many companies are currently reviewing their project portfolios and realize that there might be...
Friday, July 11, 2008

Tax-payers' commemoration day 2008

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Three day ago, on July 8, German tax payers could celebrate this year's commemoration day, i.e. from that day on they work for their own...
Monday, July 07, 2008

Telekom: Issue resolved

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My issue with Telekom regarding the upgrade of my DSL connection was resolved to my fullest satisfaction. The story unfolded like this: dsl-...
Friday, May 30, 2008

Follow-up: DSL upgrade - Disappointed by Telekom

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In a previous post ( Instant Science: DSL upgrade - Disappointed by Telekom ) I expressed my disappointment with Deutsche Telekom. Well, my ...

EU - List of restricted handluggage items

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I received a reply from the EASA (see below). It declares that the list of forbidden items is not within the responsibility of the EASA and ...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

EU - List of restricted handluggage items

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The EASA ( European Aviation Safety Agency) issued a list of restricted handluggage items (Directive 68/2004) on February 1, 2004. The list...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008

DSL upgrade - Disappointed by Telekom

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At home, I have a DSL connection provided by Telekom since 2001. Until February this year, I had a 6 mbit connection with DSL and phone flat...
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Studied Systems Analysis and Business Informatics in Germany and Sweden. Holding a PhD in Informatics from Göteborg University (Sweden). Have worked with Business Process Management, Organization Design and IT since 1994 as a researcher, lecturer, consultant, and the pharmaceutical industry. As of 01-04-07 associated with Gartner Consulting in Germany.
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