Michael Krigsman
President and CEO
Asuret Inc.
Brookline, MA USA
+1 617-297-2097
skype: mkrigsman
mkrigsman@asuret.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mkrigsman/
All too often, large software projects are like ocean liners in a sea of icebergs, going full speed ahead while the officers and crew focus on narrow technical details. Then Bang! The project smashes into an obstacle that should have been anticipated and suddenly everyone is underwater. The Deck Chairs blog is dedicated to identifying the causes of project failures and suggesting better ways to navigate around the icebergs. The picture across the top banner is the Titanic, inspiration for this blog’s title.
Michael Krigsman is CEO of Asuret, a software and consulting company dedicated to reducing software implementation failures. Asuret’s suite of software tools improve the success rate of enterprise software deployments by quantifying and measuring the gray, non-technical risks and complexity that cause most implementation failures. Michael led the research effort underlying Asuret’s model of risk factors that typically contribute to project failures. Michael consults to software companies and IT departments on topics related to improving software implementations.
Michael is also CEO of Cambridge Publications, which he co-founded in 1989. Cambridge Publications specializes in developing tools and processes for software implementations and related business practice automation projects. Among Cambridge Publications’ client projects is the AcceleratedSAP suite of implementation tools, developed for SAP to improve implementation success for its large-scale projects. Other business process and implementation methodology clients have included CCA Global Partners, Compaq, Halliburton, IBM/Lotus, Intel, SAP, Staples, and Symantec.
Cambridge Publications has worked with more than 100 companies as developer of documentation and related product components. In his role as CEO, Michael has been involved with hundreds of software development projects, for companies ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 organizations.
Michael graduated with an M.B.A. from Boston University and a B.A. from Bard College. He is currently Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the America’s Cup Hall of Fame and the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, RI. Previously, he served on the Executive Committee of the American Electronics Association in New England.
(photo courtesy Bernard Spiegeleer)