Realizing Benefits Realization

After arriving from a much delayed trip back from Singapore that started with a cancelled flight and moved on to many other tribulations I realized that I had scheduled an interview with Allen Bernard at cioupdate.com - although not quite on the planet, I apparently did manage some degree of coherence as it resulted in a very good article that I think captures the essence of the IT value problem. The article ends with a quote from Erik Dorr of the Hackett Group relating to Intel where he says "What Intel is doing is not rocket science, it's pretty much the basics." and Allen concluding with "...of course, the basics, which always seem so easy to understand and yet so hard to put into practice, are where most people fall short. Complexity can be exotic and therefore exciting, but the "basics"? Not really." Right on!!