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- How to achieve real diversity in IT
- While just hiring people who look different may satisfy internal mandates or passing fads, the truly beneficial form of diversity comes from a diversity of ideas and experience. by Patrick Gray
- Tags: Hiring, Information Technology, Diversity, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, Strategy, Management
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Proving to business leaders that new technology is not just a gimmick
- As IT managers and CIOs, our businesses charge us toidentify new technical trends and IT tools we can use to achieve a competitiveadvantage. At the same time, many of our organizations resist the introduction ofthese new tools with ferocity. Sometimes this resistance springs frombudgetary, interpersonal, or political concerns. Other times,...
- Tags: information technology, leader, managerĀ, Shannon T. Kalvar
- Technical articles 2004-09-08
- Performance Management - Making It Work
- Effective Performance Management PM integrates multiple methodologies such as balanced scorecards, strategy maps, budgets, activity based management ABM, forecasts, and resource capacity planning. Are these fashionable fads or relevant solutions? Performance management has been hailed as the new salvation for aligning your resources and turning an organization's strategy into individual...
- Tags: Strategy, Performance, Effective Performance Management, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- iDashboards: Driving Business Decisions
- Everyone seems to be talking about dashboards of one kind or another. Most software vendors are clamoring to claim they have dashboards. Dashboards have become a craze as the preferred user interface for presenting aggregated data. However, unlike many other passing fads, the dashboard craze will leave behind a lasting...
- Tags: Dashboard
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Prediction '08: It's More Than One Technology, Stupid!
- The underlying story of the 2006 election was technology. 2006 was the year that candidates started realizing that online tools were more than toys, more than fads. They began to understand that they could use both old and new online tools along with offline activities to do the things any...
- Tags: Technology, Productivity, PDAs, Social Networking, E-mail, Handhelds, Hardware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- White papers 2006-11-14
- Customer or Client?
- There was a short article about internal business users being viewed as clients rather the customers. Can anyone help me locate this article? I would like to discuss it with my IT support team.Cant help find the article, but for my two-cents..I prefer "Clients", and I think "Customers" is almost...
- Tags: Johnny Heat
- Discussion threads 2005-05-02
- Virtualization pains: Migrating real servers to virtual with Virtual Server Migration Toolkit
- That thing is a jokeWith Vmware the process is as easy as taking a Ghost image and just doing an import.It's done ,no muss no fuss.Good write-upWell-written article, thanks. My company decided to go with VMware, and I have to agree with pgm554 a little... migrating servers in a...
- Tags: hardware, pgm554, server, virtual server, virtualization, VMware Inc., windows
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- Project Based Organizations
- Project Based OrganizationsHi Everyone. I have been reading a lot of stuff about project management lately. This includes organizations that are moving towards a project based approach. My concern is whether this really can work in organizations that are not IT companies or even in IT companies. I work on...
- Tags: j.lupo@...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
- Don't waste your IT dollars
- Failing to Integrate Current Marketing Objectives with Internet MarketingHello, Although I have done no formal study on this topic. it is my sincere opinion that much waste does occur when companies, organizations, and entrepreneurs fail to integrate their internet marketing plans with their overall marketing strategies.For whatever reason, many organizations...
- Tags: dwight.stickler@..., feedback, career, project management, integrated website marketing management, software, information technology, Internet, Web site
- Discussion threads 2007-01-08
- Mission statement or vision statement?
- What's the definition of a mission statement? In response to a recent article, some members questioned the difference between a company's mission and its vision. Read on to see if you agree with their definitions.When sailing the unpredictable waters of today’s consulting market, it’s important to have a reliable sextant...
- Tags: Strategy, Beth Blakely, mission statement, vision, vision statement, Gillelan
- Technical articles 2001-02-01
- What Fads would you like to see again and which are you glad are gone?
- What Fads would you like to see again and which are you glad are gone?I wrote a minor novel last night on my blog related to the economic parallel to Forest Gump and it forced me to reminisc on the fad that I have seen come and go during my...
- Tags: Surflover
- Discussion threads 2005-10-06
- SAT and IDE?
- I have been tooling with the idea of either upgrading my current rig with another larger hdd or building another computer. AS I look at all the hdds, I am contemplating buying a SATA drive for the new one, and IDE for the old one pending on which direction I...
- Tags: IDE, jkaras, memory, processor, Serial ATA
- Q&A 2005-05-05
- Book review: Improving On-the-Job Training
- If you've ever wondered whether it's better to send your employees away for training or keep them under your wing, then the book, Improving On-the-Job Training, could certainly help you make the right choice.What’s the best way to train your employees? Should you send them off-site for formal training, or...
- Tags: Workforce management, Susanne Krivanek, OJT, training, OJT program
- Technical articles 2000-03-01
- One-on-ones: Useful tool or waste of time?
- What's your opinion of individual meetings with staff members? Bob Artner weighs in on the pros and cons of one-on-one meetings and asks for your feedback.This article first appeared on our sister site, TechRepublic.When I started writing this column a couple of years ago, I never promised to have all...
- Tags: tool, Bob Artner, individual meeting
- Technical articles 2002-12-11
- Microsoft's Six Sigma Accelerator shoots for defect-free products
- Six Sigma originated in the hallowed halls of Motorola back in the 1980s. Since then, Six Sigma has developed a cultlike following among some of the world's largest corporations seeking business process improvements within their organizations. Because of its success within so many companies, Six Sigma has stood the test...
- Tags: Jim Wells MBA, Microsoft Accelerator, Microsoft Corp., Six Sigma
- Technical articles 2003-06-23
- Team Building exercises -- Are they too contrived to work?
- TeamworkI've found that assigning large jobs to a group of people, then let them decide who will handle what parts does more to bring people together than any teambuilding outings or get togethers. This is also a good way to get new employees into the group and up to...
- Tags: Wayne M., team, team-building
- Discussion threads 2007-05-07
- 20 things managers can do to prevent layoffs
- This list is excerpted with permission fromthe article "Layoff:A Four-Letter Word in Any Economy," bySteven Martin, president of Profit Professionals of Business Solutions -The Positive Way. The organization's primarybusiness focus is helping companies achieve cost reduction and profitimprovement, eliminating the need for layoffs.Here are 20 thoughts on how to prevent...
- Tags: layoff, Use
- Technical articles 2006-08-09
- Download the Builder.com Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
- In a team-based development environment, egoless programming is a necessity. Download our Ten Commandments in tablet format as a reminder to keep your ego separate from your code.Part state of mind and part QA philosophy, the term "Egoless programming" was coined by one of my favorite authors, Jerry Weinberg, back...
- Tags: Development tools, Lamont Adams, Jerry Weinberg, Egoless Programming, Commandments, developer, programming
- Technical articles 2002-06-06
- What really makes IT people tick? What is your motivation?
- What really makes IT people tick? What is your motivation?Somtimes I wish I could take all of the insightful and interesting comments from these threads and show them to upper management and corporate america! if they would even care to listenWhy? Because I think it would teach them a thing...
- Tags: job, information technology, career, motivation, it people, lapacia@...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-03
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