I was drawn to your writing due to your laser focus on strategy alignment of IT projects. Such a philosophy, if implemented faithfully, would make my specialty of downsizing and re-aligning mid-tier company IT projects less necessary.

I plan on writing a good length post on the tensions and dynamics that push and pull on these mid-range business ERP and CRM fiascoes.

In this economy, proper selection of the systems that run a business process is so important; throwing default solutions meant for leviathans at these mid-tier specialty and vertical businesses is just a recipe for disaster.

Luckily, if steered right at the outset, or caught before the VARs start raiding the hen house (IT budget), we can get the CIO or IT boss on track with an ever growing crop of excellent SAAS and platform services, or even some very simple weaves of common software that the client already has the licenses for!

Keep up the great evangelizing for sanity in the CIO’s mission.