TechRepublic Resources
- Strategic Thinking for tactical techs
- As the IT Manager for a small business, I get to wear many hats. I perform a multitude of functions that would ordinarily be delegated to the staff in a larger company. Because most of those functions are tactical, I find that I spend very little time in...
- Tags: Task, Job, Strategic Thinking, Help Desk, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Call Centers, It Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tim Malone
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Application Architecture Essentials, Part 7: Application Architecture Security - Use Strategic Thinking to Ensure Your Organization's Security
- To survive at the architecture level, the IT specialists who flourish are those who think in terms of strategy, systems, policy, and procedures. Move beyond programming, and learn new ways to approach security from a higher, application architecture level. Stay ahead of security breaches and help ensure the enterprise is...
- Tags: Strategic Thinking, Application Architecture, Security
- White papers 2007-06-12
- EXORToon (exe)
- Experience all the fun of EXOR with the added feature of animated characters. Both the playing style and goal remain the same, but the experience is enhanced with animated characters who wink and hop at you. A great game for developing strategic thinking, even for youngsters.Note:The Download Now link will...
- Tags: Strategic Thinking, Strategy, Games, Management, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-12-04
- Making the space and time for Strategic Thinking
- Dead on!Creating an atmosphere that lends itself to creativity is a hurdle I feel most in IT face. Like you pointed out, staff is shrinking and indirectly tasks are still be being completed, but with less completeness. Outsourcing tier 1 and 2 support has resulted in the addition of a...
- Tags: Uv7, strategic thinking
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
- Making the space and time for Strategic Thinking
- I have found myself being pulled in about a thousand directions the last couple of weeks and the song, “That old familiar feeling” seems to be haunting me. I know where I need to be focused, but lately I find myself being dragged back into fighting fires--a management mode I...
- Tags: Management Skills, Managment, strategic thinking, Time Management, Wisdom
- Blog posts 2007-03-04
- Strategic Thinking is the key to proactive management
- TechRepublic member Eugene recently e-mailed me to ask how a new IT manager can learn to be a "more strategic alliance to business." The word "strategic" has been used in a variety of ways for work environments—strategic planning and strategic management, for example. However, another conceptual use of the term,...
- Tags: line staff, middle manager, Steven A. Watson, Strategic thinker, strategic thinking, thinker
- Technical articles 2003-07-08
Additional Resources
- Next Generation Supply Chain Strategic Planning Technology and Applications
- What is supply chain strategic planning? Its not execution, and its not re-engineering. It is strategic decision-making and business-planning by forward-thinking companies. Operational supply chain strategy remains the weak link in the market, mainly due to the degree of difficulty involved in using sophisticated models and complicated algorithms. In the...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategic Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- White papers 2000-04-15
- Stop Drowning in Data: A Strategic Sourcing Web Series - Beyond Simply Treading Water: Why Procurement Data Quality Matters
- This webcast describes pressing challenges and best practices in strategic sourcing; five keys to transforming the procurement organization from transactional to strategic; the strategic sourcing continuum and how to determine the organization's spot on it; and steps the organization can take right now to become strategic.
- Tags: Sourcing, SAS Institute, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Webcasts
- A Balanced View of Balanced Scorecard
- A strategy is irrelevant if you can't implement it. That's the collective realization of the business world after decades of obsession with strategy and strategic thinking. That realization has led to a voracious market for ideas on execution, alignment around strategy and predictable achievement of strategic results. The BSC approach...
- Tags: Realization, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Business-IT Alignment: Mapping Your Organization's Course
- Figuring out an appropriate business-IT alignment path can be made easier with the Strategic Alignment Model as part of your toolkit. The model helps executives to unearth strategic business opportunities that call for an integral IT strategy and to focus both on specific domains of strategic choices and on relationships...
- Tags: Business Opportunity, Information Technology, Domain, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 1999-12-10
- Strategic Planning: A Vision and Roadmap to Prosperity
- This paper focuses on the value of the V-O-E (Visioning/Strategic Planning, Organization and Execution) approach toward corporate prosperity. More specifically, a proven, successful approach toward Strategic Planning is introduced. Using the fruit bowl analogy, Strategic Planning provides the context within which the business operates. That approach includes a discussion of...
- Tags: Prosperity, Vision, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- The Data Quality Lifeline: A Practical Approach to Strategic Sourcing
- This webcast describes the steps to becoming a strategic sourcing organization and the technology solutions that can help a person achieve his or her goals. This Web seminar describes pressing challenges and best practices in strategic sourcing.
- Tags: Data Quality, Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Webcasts
- Strategic Planning
- Strategic planning should follow a common sense approach. This paper explains a method of planning that the author has seen work successfully and what is required to help to succeed. One may know a different way of building his or her plan, but this technique does work. The author explains...
- Tags: Author, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Improving the Budgeting Process With Strategic Resource Planning and Budgeting
- This seminar discusses beyond Activity-Based Planning and Budgeting to introduce the concept of Strategic Resource Planning and Budgeting, where costs are classified by what drives them. For each cost driver category, a different budgeting technique is used and the total budget is developed. The linkage to strategic priorities is provided...
- Tags: Budgeting, Financial Services
- Webcasts
- Beyond Scorecard Reporting
- In today's highly competitive business environment, it is essential that the shareholders and board of directors have continuous access to a strategic, performance-focused scorecard reporting system that monitors the success of how the organization is implementing its entire strategic plan. Before a scorecard report can truly reflect the organization's results,...
- Tags: Performance, Performance Management, Corporate Governance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers
- Creating the Strategic Plan for Today's IT
- IT's strategic plan is an essential tool to run IT like a business. The strategic plan for today's IT is different from the strategic plans that IT may have developed five years ago. It is purpose-driven and a complement to IT governance structures and processes. The structure and content are...
- Tags: Information Technology, Plan, Strategy, Management
- Research reports 2006-06-08
- Leading the Way for Ottawa OCRI Strategic Plan
- This Strategic Plan represents a process of planning and consultation with stakeholders, board members and staff. It acts as a framework to establish and articulate strategic priorities for the next three to five years. As well it is accompanied by an annually updated Operating Plan, which provides detailed insight into...
- Tags: Priority, Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers 2005-03-09
- City of Winston-Salem: Information Technology Strategic Plan
- Information technology is key to effective delivery of City services and the economic vitality of the community. The purpose of an I.T. Strategic Plan is to define investments in information technology that are consistent with a City's strategic priorities. This plan starts with Winston Salem's Strategic Plan as approved by...
- Tags: Information Technology, North Carolina, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2003-07-01
- RFID in Supply Chain: Uncommon Best Practices
- Successful companies refuse to look at RFID through only the eyes of their customers' needs. Instead they go back to the document that should be a living, breathing foundation of every company: the annual strategic business plan. Every action of every employee should step in concert to this strategic plan....
- Tags: Supply Chain, Best Practice, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Strategic alignment: Use it for your career too
- I think most people in IT have heard the term "strategic alignment" more times than they can count. Pundits are crawling out from under rocks everywhere to stress how important it is for IT to align itself with corporate business goals. Strategic alignment helps clarify and chart an organization's direction...
- Tags: toni bowers, Success, publishing gal, Personal Development, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
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