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- How to save your IT budget
- A lot of IT leaders fail to hit their IT budgets and find themselves sweating it out in the second half of the year. This episode of Sanity Savers for Executives explains why IT budgets are often unrealistic and poorly-conceived, and provides tips for creating an achievable budget.
- Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-07-30
- When should you do a major hardware upgrade?
- The decision of when to buy new hardware on a large scale is typically driven by changing needs in the organization. The challenge for CIOs is knowing how and when those changes translate into real hardware needs. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives provides several questions to help...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Hardware Upgrade, Hardware, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-07-23
- Counterpoint: Five reasons to decentralize your IT department
- See the top five benefits for decentralizing your IT department, and the trade-offs you have to make if you decentralize, in this episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives. Also see: Five reasons to centralize your IT department
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Department, Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-07-16
- Five reasons to centralize your IT department
- Most IT leaders either love centralization or hate it. In some organizations, you may love it one year and hate it the next. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives presents the top five arguments for centralizing your IT department.
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Strategic Planning, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-07-09
- Five questions to help you get your IT project funded
- If you're having trouble getting the green light for IT projects, then this episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives can help. It provides five questions to ask yourself before presenting your project to the CEO or the management team.
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-07-02
- Three big communication tips for CIOs
- One of the top priorities of a CIO is to articulate a vision for how technology can support and transform the company. There's no way to achieve that without effective communication. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives provides three useful tips for CIOs...
- Tags: CIO, Communication, Episode, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-06-18
- How to land the perfect CIO job
- You won't be able to land your ideal CIO position by surfing job ads and firing off resumes. You have to do the right kind of preparation and legwork, and this episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives will help you get started.
- Tags: Job, TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-05-14
- Five habits of wildly unsuccessful CIOs
- In episode #6 of Sanity Savers for IT Executives, TechRepublic's Jason Hiner describes five CIO habits that are sure to kill your IT department and doom your career as an IT leader. Once you've watched the video, you can also get the full text of the original...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-05-05
- Steer clear of these illegal job interview questions
- When it comes time to interview job candidates, you probably know that there are some questions that are simply off limits. However, there are also some seemingly innocent questions that could get you into hot water. Episode #7 of Sanity Savers for IT Executives tips you...
- Tags: Job, TechRepublic Inc., Job Interview, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-05-05
- Five tips to help new IT managers
- Making the move from a technical job to managing an IT department requires a variety of new skills. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives provides five tips for IT executives to help their techies make the transition to becoming managers. Once you've watched the...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Sanity Savers, IT management, CIO, career
- Videos 2008-04-29
- Five things you should know about ITIL
- ITIL was originally just a set of books from the U.K. about IT best practices. Today, it has turned into a global phenomenon and one of the hottest topics in IT. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives gives a rundown of five basic ITIL facts every IT pro...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-04-29
- Use this simple process to improve IT vendor selection
- When it's time to spend a big chunk of your IT budget on a new purchase, you need to systematically map out the requirements of your project or upgrade so that you make the best vendor selection. In Episode #4 of Sanity Savers for IT Executives,...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Vendor Selection, Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-04-29
- Five things to know about VoIP over wireless
- Voice over IP can provide substantial savings on your telephone service by allowing you to use an IP network to make phone calls. You can also run VoIP over Wi-Fi, but you need to be aware of certain limitations. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives highlights the key...
- Tags: Wireless, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Wi-Fi, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-09-24
- Five ways to make your meetings more effective
- When you find yourself walking out of a meeting feeling energized by the ideas that emerged and the issues that were resolved, you should realize that someone took the time to define a purpose for the meeting and to manage the process effectively. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-09-17
- Four ways to reduce energy costs and environmental impact
- Green IT is one of the hottest trends in the technology industry. The idea is to provide computing services in an environmentally conscious way. Most green IT methods involve significant changes to an organization's server and storage infrastructure and can even extend to the desktop. This episode of Sanity Savers...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Storage, Green IT, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-09-10
- Does Green IT matter for business?
- You've probably run across "Green IT" at industry trade shows and in the media. Although the concept is a little vague, Green IT is making its influence felt across the IT landscape. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives explains what green IT is, why it's important, and how...
- Tags: Green IT, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-09-03
- Four trends that will transform IT over the next five years
- Gartner has cited its top 10 IT trends to watch over the next three to five years. IT leaders should put these trends on the radar to exploit them for competitive advantage. In this episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives, I share four of these trends and give you...
- Tags: Trend, TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-08-29
- Five ethical dilemmas IT leaders must confront
- Professions such as law and medicine have long-established ethical guidelines to govern behavior. But in the IT field there isn't always a consensus about what's right. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives highlights five of the ethical concerns that IT leaders must confront.
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-08-20
- Top leadership qualities of CIOs
- What does it take to be a great IT leader? The best insights come from the CIOs who are out there doing it every day. In this episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives, see what CIOs have identified as the top leadership qualities needed to run an IT department.
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Leadership, Strategy, Management, techrepublic inc., sanity savers
- Videos 2008-08-08
- Five ways to trim your IT budget
- When it comes time for corporate belt-tightening, IT is often a popular target. There are also times when an IT leader simply needs to rework the budget in order to make room for new projects or priorities. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives looks at five ways to...
- Tags: IT Budget, TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-08-06
