Change Management
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Firms can gain from proper BPM deployment
Insight perspective Business process management, or "process for processes", helps CIOs anticipate processing issues and optimize efficient processes.
Tags: Process, Business, middle management, Successful Business Process Management, Satishchandra Nayak, ERP, Business Process, BPM, CIO, information technology
To go green, focus on breaking habits
News Enterprises need to work at changing employee mindsets and routine processes to succeed in their green IT strategy, say industry players.
Tags: Green IT, Recycling, Infrastructure/architecture management, Corporate culture, Green IT, Australia, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, performance, software, barrier
'Corruption' slowing India's e-govt growth
News Politicians' concerns of losing control and the lack of service targets have hindered e-government initiatives in India, say industry players.
Tags: Local Government, Regulations, Federal Government, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., E-government, IT Services, India, Government, phone, public sector
Businesses fail to appreciate the value of IT
News Tech needs to get itself noticed--but that's no good if they can't explain what value they provide.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IT Service Management, ITIL, IT Services, IT Professional, Survey, CMDB, change management
Introduction to Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008
Techguide SQL Server database consultant Tim Chapman takes a look at the new auditing features available in SQL Server 2008.
Tags: Databases, Server platforms, Data Management, Microsoft SQL Server, Data, Database, Data Auditing, data capture, DDL, ETL
Don't mistake the map for the journey
Techguide Using innovative methods for projects doesn't have to mean abandoning benefits gained by applying structured project management techniques.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Motorola Inc., Method, Project, project manager, Rick, compliance, knowledge, technique
Get a slipping project back on track
Techguide Plenty of things can derail a project plan--here are some practical techniques that can correct the direction of a project that’s losing ground.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Activity, Project, Schedule, Deadline, Resource, project manager, Work, performance review
Legg Mason: We're backing Yahoo
News The investment house, which owns 4.4 percent of Yahoo stock, says it will back existing management.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Search, Internet advertising, Legg Mason Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Stock, Carl Icahn, capital management, shareholder
Deciding to outsource: Is it cultural?
Blogs You may have been expecting this to be about cultural differences in relation to companies that outsource but it's not. ...
10 ways to effectively estimate and control project costs
Techguide Estimating what a project will cost is only half the battle; controlling those costs during the project and after delivery is equally critical.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Cost control, Baseline Cost, Business Unit, Information Technology, Benchmarking Exercise, Project, IT-spending, Cost
Aussie organizations shun Office 2010
News No large Australian organization is known to be planning an Office 2010 migration, and many have not even completed their move to Office 2007.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Training, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows XP, KPMG Consulting Inc., Microsoft Office, desktop, Benefit, Microsoft Windows
APAC firms to tap on hosted UC in downturn
News Enterprise caution on IT spend in next two years will drive growth of hosted unified communications services in the Asia-Pacific region, predicts Frost & Sullivan.
Tags: Services, LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Video, Customer support, Asia-Pacific, Unified Communications Service, Service, unified communications services revenue, BPR
Restless data: Diffusion via virtualization
Techguide Left on its own, data will find its way to the farthest recesses of your data center. But when helped along by implementation teams, there's no limit to data diffusion.
Tags: Data Management, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Data, Security, Virtualization, Database, Diffusion, Tom Olzak, HR Database
Ray Ozzie sees cloud over Valley
News Microsoft's chief software architect discusses the impact cloud computing will have on the tech industry and Silicon Valley during a talk in Palo Alto, Calif.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Web sites, Leadership, ARM, Ray Ozzie, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Bill Gates, Google Inc., Web Browser
Manage these three aspects of change in your project
Techguide You can't predict every change that will happen in your project, but you can manage them as they occur.
Tags: IT Management, IT project management
