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Mauro Gatti

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Senior IT Architect, IBM

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I hold a PhD in theoretical physics and I am currently a Senior IT Architect. My focus is currently mainly on:

1. Intangible assets
2. IT investment decision process analysis
3. IT architectural design analysis
4. Optimization of IT investments ...

I hold a PhD in theoretical physics and I am currently a Senior IT Architect. My focus is currently mainly on:

1. Intangible assets
2. IT investment decision process analysis
3. IT architectural design analysis
4. Optimization of IT investments through mathematical programming
5. Capacity planning for server virtualization and server consolidation projects

To know more about mee see my CV at http://www.itdec.eu/AboutUs_MauroGatti.CV.html

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Nov. 17, 2011

Mauro Gatti recommends this answer by Barry Schaeffer

Where are there reports that validate the frequent assertion that 65%+ of major IT projects fail?

One thing to keep firmly in mind, as you look for failure reports, is the fact that people who are responsible for the failures don't often do a "mea culpa" about them. Indeed, in many cases, the failure is kept under very tight wraps until ... more

Business Intelligence

Project Management

Nov. 17, 2011

Mauro Gatti and 2 other people answered this question

How does a virtual machine move from one to another seamlessly?

There is a huge difference between online and offline migration.
Offline migration is when you can afford to turn off the VM. In online migration on the contrary you want to be able to migrate the VM without the users noticing the migration.
Online migration ... more

Information Technology

Virtual Machine

Nov. 8, 2011

Mauro Gatti and 46 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Customer 2.0 Is Mad as Hell [11/3 @ 11 am]

Are face-to-face conversations still the most powerful way to connect with a prospect?

There are so many people that agree on the importance of face-to-face communication that there is certainly the need of a contrarian opinion. Broad questions like these do not almost always have a simple answer, unless you consider "it depends" an answer. There are circumstances ... more

Sept. 26, 2011

Mauro Gatti and 8 other people answered this question

Is poor performance contagious?

As Mark Herbert says it may, but there is no causal relationship; it depends on how the group reacts. If someone, for instance, is underperforming simply because it is lazy, it may well happen that he/she becomes isolated from the group, provided that the group ... more

General Management

Human Resources

Performance Management

Poor Performance

Sept. 25, 2011

Mauro Gatti and 33 other people answered this question

If you can't give an employee a raise, what are other ways to reward them?

Intrinsic motivation (see for instance http://www.psych.rochester.edu/SDT/) is crucial for any human being and it is in my opinion even more important for IT professionals. Indeed, if they were not intrinsically motivated to learn technologies and fully understand the world around them they would pursue a ... more

Human Resources

Employee Engagement

Sept. 7, 2011

Mauro Gatti and 24 other people answered this question

What are the top mistakes that interviewers make when conducting an interview?

Here are a few examples of mistakes I have seen many times in my professional life:
1. The interviewer can give a bad impression to the candidate that can therefore decide to accept a job in a different company. This happened to me several times. ... more

Human Resources

Feb. 18, 2011

Mauro Gatti and 9 other people answered this question

What are the top 5 mistakes that most managers make?

That's a very interesting question and I see you are receiving many interesting answers. However, none of the comments above have highlighted the fact that in your question you do not clarify the word 'mistake'. One of the main challenges of organizations is to set ... more

General Management

Bad Business Practices

Leadership Effectiveness

Feb. 14, 2011

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Feb. 14, 2011

Mauro Gatti and 1 other person answered this question

What are the top virtualization benefits?

Hi Christy,
your question is extremely important. Unfortunately my response comes quite late, but hopefully it will be of help for someone else.
Let start a preliminary remark: which benefits matter the most depend on what are your objectives, so there cannot be a perfect ... more

Information Technology

Server Virtualization

Servers and Storage

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