IMHO If I can go into your company and turn off all you IT infrastructure and your business can keep operating, CEO does not need to understand IT. If your company cannot operate without IT, why then did you employ a CEO without these core skills
I can see your point of you that you want to deliver changes faster and I can understand your frustration with the IT department. However from their point of view their jobs maybe measured against stability not change and so they take such a risk adverse approach. Maybe your Senior managers could negotiate different terms of service for your servers to let them get on with their job and you with yours
There is another organisation in Australia called computer bank http://www.computerbank.org.au that provides PC's and computer training for disadvantage groups
They use a open source solution involving Linux so that licencing issues that effected PC for Kids do not trouble them.
The issue you have is not with the competitor product but with the client.
The Managers who have decided to go with the competitor product invested their repuation in the competitors product. So if you do go to the Client with this information you are going to make them look like Clowns. Hence the comment sore loser when you told the webmasters.
This could harm you getting future business from this firm (which is really what your company's interested in)
The two choices you have are 1. Walk away
review the reasons why you lost the orginal tender
and when the next tender comes out for an upgrade on the website (and from what you say about the competitor product there will be one) go for it and sell your product.
Choice 2. Invite the Head of the Company or the department (generally the bosses of the people who made the decision to go with the competitor's product )on a social outing and find out what problems they are having on the web site project.
Then have a quite word with him/her off the record about the project and tell them your concerns and it will go no further than the two of you.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought the Wall Street Exchanges were hosted in New Jersey?
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/all/
I wonder who's going to be immortalised as the first person to be killed by a computer-controlled car?
John Connor?
IMHO If I can go into your company and turn off all you IT infrastructure and your business can keep operating, CEO does not need to understand IT.
If your company cannot operate without IT, why then did you employ a CEO without these core skills
Epic agree
Heres the link
https://actuv.darpa.mil/
I can see your point of you that you want to deliver changes faster and I can understand your frustration with the IT department. However from their point of view their jobs maybe measured against stability not change and so they take such a risk adverse approach. Maybe your Senior managers could negotiate different terms of service for your servers to let them get on with their job and you with yours
What tools did you use to Load test WOW?
There is another organisation in Australia called computer bank http://www.computerbank.org.au that provides PC's and computer training for disadvantage groups
They use a open source solution involving Linux so that licencing issues that effected PC for Kids do not trouble them.
Go to http://www.lester-assoc.com/ they do sponsorships for a couple of countries. UK, SA, NZ and Oz
The issue you have is not with the competitor product but with the client.
The Managers who have decided to go with the competitor product invested their repuation in the competitors product. So if you do go to the Client with this information you are going to make them look like Clowns. Hence the comment sore loser when you told the webmasters.
This could harm you getting future business from this firm (which is really what your company's interested in)
The two choices you have are 1. Walk away
review the reasons why you lost the orginal tender
and when the next tender comes out for an upgrade on the website (and from what you say about the competitor product there will be one) go for it and sell your product.
Choice 2. Invite the Head of the Company or the department (generally the bosses of the people who made the decision to go with the competitor's product )on a social outing and find out what problems they are having on the web site project.
Then have a quite word with him/her off the record about the project and tell them your concerns and it will go no further than the two of you.