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- Need some Career advice
- I work for a top 500 company as a desktop support tech, have attained my MCSE in Win 2000 and been working to complete my CCNA, I'm 48 and have about 7 years total in IT. The company I work for has implemented some changes that really isn't favorable to...
- Tags: career, Career Advice, competency, core competency, Danatega, desktop, network, network administration
- Discussion threads 2005-03-29
- AMR Research Alert: Rethinking Core Competencies
- In this thought-provoking article from AMR Research, author Bruce Richardson discusses recent trends in the Research and Development (R&D) arena and explains why "everyday low prices," which are great for consumers, make it hard for manufacturers and vendors to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Richardson goes on to outline the...
- Tags: AMR Research, Bruce Richardson, competitive advantage, core competency, IBM Corp., outsourcing, product design, R&D
- White papers 2005-03-17
- From Chaos to Core Competency
- Agere, located in Allentown, Pa., is a leading maker of integrated chips for wireless devices, disk drives and network gear, with 7,000 employees and about $2 billion in annual sales. There was no ability to clearly see interdependencies among projects. The solution for Agere was straightforward: Start taking full advantage...
- Tags: Core Competency, Primavera Systems Inc., Agere Systems Inc., Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Project Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Management, Sales, It Operations, It service Management
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- Yahoo! enhances search service
- But is Yahoo! doing enough to trump Google at its core competency?But is Yahoo! doing enough to trump Google at its core competency?
- Tags: Strategy, pr.arun@..., Yahoo! Inc., search technology
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Competency Management and Rewarding
- In rewarding one current area of interest is skill-based pay or competency-based pay. Many of these pay systems focus on competency development of individual employees. In the domain of competency management exist many variations depending on the theoretical background and on organization's strategy. How can rewarding be planned to support...
- Tags: Helsinki University, Competency Management, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-02-27
- Best practice: Building a BI Competency Centre
- BI is reaching ever more constituents. As demand increases, so does the imperative for a sound strategy addressing short - as well as long-term needs. Increasingly, organisations are forming BI Competency Centres.
- Tags: SAS Institute, Best Practice, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2005-06-01
- BI Imperative Web Seminar - Focus on Building the BI Competency Center
- Establishing a Business Intelligence Competency Center BICC - a cross-functional team with defined tasks, roles, responsibilities and processes for supporting and promoting BI - encourages everyone across the organization to own business intelligence. The presenter of this webcast shows how to exploit the benefits of BI Competency Centers, including: increased...
- Tags: Web, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Webcasts
- Integration Competency Centres
- Integration is evolving – moving away from creating data warehouses to span enterprise-wide applications including compliance, ERP consolidation and data synchronisation. This white paper explains how Integration Competency Centres ICCs ensure that organisations can meet these needs by re-using knowledge, tools and processes created on one project...
- Tags: Informatica, Integration, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Productivity, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2005-04-07
- Evolving the Project Management Office: A Competency Continuum
- Many organizations today have recognized the need for a Project Management Office PMO to achieve project management oversight, control, and support. The PMO's role is to help both the project manager and the relevant organization to not only understand and apply modern project management practices, but also to adapt and...
- Tags: Project Management Office, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-09-22
- Getting Started: Your Guide to SOA Success
- More and more organizations are turning to a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA to increase productivity, enhance operational efficiency and agility, and align their IT infrastructures with business strategies. To help enterprises take advantage of these significant benefits, Software AG has created a unique SOA Competency Center - an organization with dedicated...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Idea Qualification
- In today's highly competitive, change-intensive and global marketplace, innovation is a core competency that every business must embrace. Innomation is the automation of innovation and depends on people, processes and technology for success. Many technologies contribute to innovation success but few are true innomation technologies - tools and applications used...
- Tags: Innovation, Innomation, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Apple bursts out with 8-core 3 GHz Intel quad-core
- Anyone interested in an 8-core workstation?Can anyone see themselves plopping down some hard cash for an 8-core Mac Pro?
- Tags: george_ou@..., quad-core, Apple Computer Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- BPO 2.0: The Road to Contact Center Innovation
- The basic premise of Business Process Outsourcing BPO is that companies focus on their core competency and move their non-core business processes to outsource providers allowing for optimal use of a company's time and resources. BPO has grown immensely in the last decade - the list of functions being outsourced...
- Tags: Innovation, Business Process, BPO, Outsource, Contact Center, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Operational Planning, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2006-07-19
- Together at Last: How a BI Competency Center Consolidates BI Expertise
- The expanded Corporate Information Factory CIFe, the most frequently implemented architecture for BI, is easily divided into two halves - getting data into the environment and getting information out into the hands of the business community. These two halves each require their own expertise contained in Competency Centers - one...
- Tags: Expertise, SAS Institute, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Webcasts
- Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development Uses SAS to Make Faster Decisions About Drug Development
- Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development, a New Jersey-based company, designs and conducts global experimental clinical research, coordinates global pivotal clinical trial plans, and designs and executes pivotal clinical trials in the United States. The company's core competency is the development of new medications, not the creation and maintenance of a Clinical...
- Tags: Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Healthcare
- Case studies
- Normann's Crane 2.0 Operationalising Service Systems Co-Design
- Service development and delivery is by its very nature an activity that requires cooperation between suppliers and customers. This cooperation does not imply or require parity between the parties. In any such relationship parties divide responsibilities based on a perception of self-competency and subsequent economic value. This is not always...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Normann, Business Structures, Service Level Management, Finance, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2007-10-10
- Changing the Face of Technology in Education: Funding Education - Not Technology
- Adopting Shared Service Centers provides services to smaller, less funded schools; services that were previously unavailable because of access, support needs, implementation costs. It is imperative to look at alternatives that create new operational efficiencies, reduce costs and strengthen bottom lines. Schools should focus on their core competency and primary...
- Tags: Education, Adopting Shared Service Centers
- White papers 2006-03-16
- The Business Intelligence Competency Center: Making the Most of Your BI Investment
- After investing in business intelligence solutions, a person would do everything possible to ensure the company gets the value and results expected? A Business Intelligence Competency Center is an effective way to manage and leverage the BI resources both people and technology for their full potential. The presenters of this...
- Tags: Investment, Business Intelligence Competency Center, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Webcasts
- Extending the SAN for SANbox 9000 Core Switches
- The best way to mitigate the limitations of a decentralized data environment is to create a core-to-core bridging strategy using standard, proven technologies. Core-to-core bridging is the QLogic term for linking the core networks between data centers. Data center switches, such as the SANbox 9200, can access remote SAN islands...
- Tags: SAN, QLogic Corp., Data Centers, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Networking, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-10-18
- Skills Measurement for IT Talent - How Government Agencies Are Putting Commercial Best Practices to Work
- From April 22 - 29, 2002, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management OPM held its first IT Virtual Job Fair. The online skills measurement approach used in the IT job fair achieved some important goals. First, the measurement system supported a new competency-based approach to defining job qualifications. Traditionally, government...
- Tags: Job, Agency, Information Technology, Government, Best Practice, Brainbench, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
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