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- Technological Mediated Masters Thesis
- Hi!As a New England College (Henniker, NH) graduate student, my Masters Thesis requires a survey to be completed. The working title of my thesis is "Technological Mediated Communication and the Organizational Change Agent" It deals how to maximize mobile technology's impact on teams, communities of practice, process improvements I am...
- Tags: Technological, feedback, wireless, knowledge management, continuous improvement, text mining, mobile devices, data mining, survey, 2.5bostons
- Discussion threads 2006-05-20
- Manufacturer's Portal Enables Continuous Improvement and Speeds Time-to-Knowledge
- Gates Corporation is one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial and automotive belts and hoses. With more than 13,500 employees in 22 countries, Gates struggles to keep very many people communicating effectively and focused on corporate objectives. To make it easier to find information scattered across the company, the...
- Tags: Continuous Improvement, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Web Technology, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Recalibrating Lean: Enterprise Mobility and Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing
- The goal of this white paper is to detail the benefits of integrating enterprise mobility into your lean environment, especially when it comes to the fundamental components of calibrating, operating and improving. Enterprise mobility technology enables you to enhance your lean efforts without it becoming burdensome to continuous improvement processes....
- Tags: Mobility, Symbol Technologies Inc., Manufacturing, Enterprise Mobility Technology
- White papers
- A Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Program That Saves Cash: Link Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements to Business Improvement
- Successful quality - and compliance - is a continuous improvement process that demands a closed-loop control structure. Technology-enabled quality in the "Financial data factory" provides a significant ROI. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance becomes a dimension of overall quality. Continuous inspection solutions from Oversight Systems provide precise results and a leveraged environment for...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Oversight Systems, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2006-07-25
- CMMi for Software Development Projects: Initiating a Process Improvement Program
- Continuous Process Improvement is the underlying principle behind most modern quality and process standards. In order to stay competitive in a global economy, organizations must systematically strive to improve their processes through sustained and disciplined efforts. This paper presents the fundamental steps leading to process improvement and suggests some practical...
- Tags: Software, Continuous Process Improvement, Software Development, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-04-30
- Continuous Integration With Continuum
- "Integrate early, integrate often." This is the underlying principle of continuous integration, a powerful development practice recently brought into the spotlight by the Agile methodologies. Apache Continuum is a flexible, easy-to-use tool that can help to put continuous integration into action. This paper explains the basic principals of continuous integration,...
- Tags: Integration, Apache Continuum
- White papers 2006-05-30
- Advances in Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
- Kashya develops unique algorithmic technologies to enable an order of magnitude improvement in the reliability, cost, and performance of an enterprise's data protection capabilities. Based on the Kashya Data Protection Appliance platform, Kashya's powerful solutions deliver superior data protection at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions. Kashya's Data...
- Tags: Data Protection, Kashya, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management
- White papers 2005-10-06
- Controls, Compliance and the Role of Continuous Monitoring
- Faced with unacceptably high ongoing compliance costs, many organizations are considering technology solutions for continuous monitoring to facilitate the compliance process and minimize cost. Continuous monitoring offers the greatest benefits when applied to automate controls and compliance tasks that were excessively manual and labor intensive in first-year compliance efforts. Compliance...
- Tags: Compliance, Monitoring
- White papers 2007-02-12
- IT Service Management - And Beyond
- Macquarie University Library identified a need for a responsive and scalable way of delivering services, particularly IT services, which made best use of existing resources, developed a shared understanding of service provision across the Library and created a cycle of continuous improvement. To identify best practice in service delivery, Macquarie...
- Tags: Information Technology, Macquarie University, IT Service Management, Library, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2005-04-03
- Demystifying the Local Continuous Replication (LCR) Feature
- Local Continuous Replication LCR which formerly was known as the Local Continuous Backup feature is, when speaking high availability and Total Cost of Ownership TCO, an extremely interesting new feature. The LCR feature makes it possible to create and maintain an exact copy replica of databases in a storage group...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Feature, Roi/Tco, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
- White papers 2006-06-13
- Achieving CMMI Compliance Through Automated Process Management
- This white paper identifies how organizations may leverage automation towards achievement of improved levels of Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI. For organizations that have undertaken CMMI efforts or achieved higher levels of CMMI maturity, this white paper unveils how to apply automation towards managing process definition and refinement, process deployment...
- Tags: Process Management, Capability Maturity Model, Automation, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2005-01-10
- Reinforcing Six Sigma in Project Management
- Six Sigma and Innovative thinking when used in conjunction with Project Management can be recognized as panacea for all ailments! Six Sigma is practiced as a methodology of process improvement to achieve business excellence. Six Sigma is a systematic method of using extremely rigorous data gathering and statistical analysis. It...
- Tags: Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Sustainable Governance
- In this webcast, you'll hear how IBM's latest product release is helping customers adopt a more holistic approach towards IT governance to drive results and deliver ROI. You'll learn how this significant evolution of the IBM Rational toolset provides a solid foundation for regulatory compliance oversight, globally distributed development,...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Regulatory Compliance, Roi/Tco, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Webcasts 2006-06-13
- Why and How to Build a Continuous Integration Environment for the .NET Platform
- This paper is a learning tool and also a detailed manual to reference for executives, managers and developers on 'Why and How to build a Continuous Integration Environment for the .NET platform'. It covers everything from the basics of Continuous Integration to significant business advantages, as well as overview diagrams...
- Tags: Solution Provider, Environment, Integration, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-01-18
- Software Risk Management
- This paper presents a holistic vision of the risk-based methodologies for Software Risk Management SRM developed at the Software Engineering Institute SEI. SRM methodologies address the entire life cycle of software acquisition, development, and maintenance. This paper is driven by the premise that the ultimate efficacy...
- Tags: Software, Methodology, Software Engineering Institute, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2001-03-03
- Disaster Recovery & Protection Made Simple With EMC RecoverPoint
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how RecoveryPoint can meet the continuous remote replication and continuous data protection needs.
- Tags: Continuous Data Protection, EMC Corp., Disaster Recovery, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts
- MSF Process Template for CMMI Process Improvement (exe)
- Choose the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement process for projects with longer life cycles and that require a record of decisions made. Choose MSF for CMMI Process Improvement over MSF for Agile Software Development, if your organization is undertaking a broad quality assurance and process improvement initiative or your team...
- Tags: Process Improvement, Software Development, Quality, Business Operations, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-09-04
- Service Level Agreements: A Framework for the Quality Management and Improvement of Central Support Services
- Service Level Agreements SLAs are becoming an increasingly popular way to manage the quality of services within organisations. Monash University is developing SLA's between central support services and faculties for support services including human resources, student services and information technology services. The potential benefits of this process include increased internal...
- Tags: Monash University, SLA, Support Services, Quality Management, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2005-04-28
- Achieving Measurable Value: Optimizing the IT Investment and Demonstrating Value
- This paper explores using Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard methodology to first align an IT organization with the business it serves, then assist in driving continuous improvement and demonstrating the value delivered in a clear way. CIOs and other IT executives, faced with the challenge of increasing the focus of...
- Tags: Unisys Corp., Information Technology, IT Investment, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
- White papers 2005-10-01
- A New Algorithm for Crossbar Switch Problem Using Hopfield Neural Network With Continuous Hysteresis Neurons
- This paper proposes a continuous hysteresis neurons Hopfield neural network architecture for efficiently solving crossbar switch problems. A Hopfield neural network architecture with continuous hysteresis and its collective computational properties are studied. It is proved theoretically and confirmed by simulating the randomly generated Hopfield neural network with continuous hysteresis neurons....
- Tags: Algorithm, Network Architecture, Neuron, Network Administration, Productivity, Networking
- White papers 2006-12-01
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