Business Benefit
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Why your business should use Twitter
Insight perspective Twitter's not just about what you ate for breakfast. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary explains how businesses can take advantage of it and other social networks.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Twitter, British Telecommunications, social networking, Facebook, network, LinkedIn, advisory board
The mainframe's virtual renaissance
Insight Increased interest in virtualization and the demand for "greener" computing could see revived interest in mainframe computing, say industry insiders.
Tags: Mainframes, Mainframe, Security, Virtualization, Butler Group, software, Microsoft .NET, job, Wintel, IBM WebSphere
Are you ready for Windows .NET Server?
Insight A closer look at the changes to Windows 2000 server in its successor, Windows .NET Server.
How to prioritize your organization’s projects
Techguide Here are some tips work with management, to successfully determine how to balance new and existing projects.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Project, Business Benefit, accountability, PowerPoint Presentation, team-building, information technology, strategy, business case
Are your IT projects a house of cards?
Techguide Organizational cultures that prioritize business value over mechanical project execution, will prevent IT folks from spinning business benefits to get their project approved--and doomed for failure.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Budgeting/cost control, Business Benefit, Card, appraisal, Michael Krigsman, Management Practice, Sommer, software
10 steps to prevent IT myopia
Techguide Peter Birley, an IT director in a legal firm, offers some tips for IT leaders to think strategically about business, organizational, and management issues.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Leadership, Business Strategies & Functions, Supplier, Michael Krigsman, performance, software, CEO, industry
Built-in change processes increase chance for IT project success
Techguide An industry watcher shares the built-in change process his company uses and explains how it compares to the traditional project management approach.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Bentley College, VP, job, MBA, health care, built-In, team, Project management
Use initial project justification to measure business value
Techguide Here's what to do if you're asked to measure the business value of a project once it is finished.
Tags: IT project management, Infrastructure/architecture management, Project management
Select and prioritize projects with a business case
Insight Every company needs to compare projects and determine hierarchy. A business case document provides this level of information and is quicker and much easier to prepare than a formal project definition.
Nasscom announces program for emerging companies
News India's Nasscom has unveiled a capacity building partnership program, targeting small and midsize enterprises looking to work with European countries.
Tags: IT training, Consulting, Business, Certification
Microsoft is handing out presence
News Company doles out server software code in effort to help business applications makers build new communications tools.
Tags: Software integration, Business applications, Instant messaging
Is your project MAD?
Techguide Forget deliverable-inspired tasks that produce little useful output. If you want your project management discipline to really shine, apply them to true business objectives.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Project, project manager, Fortune 500, financial benefit, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, CIO, financial
Plan for effective capacity and availability management in new systems
Insight Putting a new system into place requires an examination of capacity and availability issues. Analysis of these factors clarifies the system's business value and ensures that it will meet users' needs and IT support expectations.
Good ROI doesn't guarantee project approval
Insight A project may be cancelled despite decent return on investment projections. Here's how other factors, including costs, company priorities, and project alignment, play a part.
Plan your benchmarking approach before starting to collect metrics
Insight Where do you start? First, you need to do some preparation. You need to frame out what you want to accomplish through benchmarking and the type of benchmarking program you want to set up. Let's look at the steps required to do this.
