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- IT Governance: Vendor Relationship Management - Vendor or Partner?
- Business cannot be conducted without them. Does it call them "Supplier" or "Vendor" or "Partner?" It is not just a matter of semantics. The distinction determines how much business value is created through these critical relationships. Indeed, one of the most effective ways to create shareholder value is to manage...
- Tags: IT Governance, Partnership, Information Technology, Relationship, SAS Institute, Distinction, Business Structures, Channel Management, Finance, Marketing
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- Holding the Line: Frameworks for IT Governance During Tough Times
- IT Portfolio Management is a dynamic planning environment for prioritizing the allocation of scarce taxpayer resources that has grown to include evolving frameworks for the below-the-line operational functions of infrastructure services delivery and support through the Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL and the above-the-line high-level IT governance and strategic planning...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., IT Portfolio Management, ITIL, Strategy, It Services, Management
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- IT Governance: In Search of IT ROI
- The problem of IT Performance is not new. There have been many attempts to address this issue, mostly, "Borrowing" approaches and frameworks, from other disciplines. IT ROI and Balanced Scorecard are perhaps the best examples of such approaches. These approaches have taken up valuable resources, but failed to address the...
- Tags: IT Governance, Webcast, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
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- Featuring Gartner: IT Governance and the Role of Enterprise SCM and Process Best Practices
- As Sarbanes-Oxley SOX deadlines approach, organizations are actively working to improve IT governance and ensure compliance. Companies who have embraced software best practices are finding compliance a lesser hurdle and they are realizing tangible benefits such as productivity and software quality improvements, as well as reduced IT costs. This webcast...
- Tags: Software, IT Governance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Best Practice, SCM, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
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- IT Governance: Enterprise Architecture Planning
- Enterprise architecture is to an enterprise, as architecture is to a building. Enterprise Architecture Planning is invaluable to any organization, especially large ones. They can help improve asset productivity and lower costs. Effective Enterprise Architecture Planning requires a practical and easy to use framework. This framework should help break this...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Planning, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- How Is IT Governance Evolving?
- This webcast discusses the following topics: how important is the use of an advanced toolset to the success of project governance in an organization?; is EVM being used in the organization?; and does a person or his or her organization value the PMP?
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- IT Governance for the Mid-Market Corporation
- This webcast discusses the success Foley & Lardner has had implementing a project management solution in their firm.
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
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- Enterprise Project Management - IT Governance and the Program Management Office
- Organizations are challenged to track and measure the effectiveness of a large number of projects in various aspects of their work, and aligning Information Technology costs with business objectives is becoming increasingly important. Executives--especially those accountable for the success or failure of IT spending–would benefit from better ways to select...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Software Spectrum, Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management
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- COBIT and IT Governance Case Study: Allstate
- Allstate is based in Northbrook, Illinois, USA, and offers a wide range of protection and savings tools that work together to achieve financial security. After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in the US, Allstate began using COBIT to evaluate IT governance and control, obtain benchmarks for assessing automated controls embedded...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Allstate Corp., Strategy, Management
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- Demonstrating MKS's Enterprise Software Change Management Solution for IT Governance & Compliance
- As organizations struggle to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and enhance IT governance, many areas of IT are coming under audit scrutiny. This webcast gives a brief overview of critical IT controls and then demonstrates how the MKS Integrity Suite for enterprise software change management can aid in implementing and enforcing IT...
- Tags: Audit, IT Governance, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, MKS Inc., Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management
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- PAETEC Reduces Information Technology Operation Cost to Half of Industry Average With IT Governance Initiative
- PAETEC Communications Inc., a subsidiary of PAETEC Corp., is a communications solutions provider offering broadband services to medium-sized and large businesses, colleges and universities, hospitals, hotels, governmental organizations, financial markets, and affinity groups. The philosophy of running IT like a business is simple in theory, but enormously challenging in practice....
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Industry, Mercury Interactive Corp., PaeTec, Strategy, Management
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- SAS Brings Global IT Governance to Sanpaolo IMI Group
- Sanpaolo, one of Italy's largest financial institutions, used SAS software to facilitate a new business culture of transparency in its IT function, while consolidating the operations of seven organizations following a series of mergers. The company found that, by measuring and monitoring IT service levels, it could achieve better performance...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, SAS Institute
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- IT Governance: Managing IT for Shareholder Value - Getting the "Big Picture" of IT
- The primary focus of a business leader is creating shareholder value. Information technology is a means to that end. The objective of this webcast is to provide an overview of information technology capability, discuss how it enables business results, introduce a business-focused approach to create an IT capability that enables...
- Tags: Shareholder, IT Governance, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Controlling Your SharePoint Server 2007 Sites With IT Governance (Level 200)
- The presenter of this webcast shows how to manage shared service providers, including using profiles, personalized sites, and audiences, to deliver customized content to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 users. The presenter also demonstrates the security, policy, and auditing features available to a person and other administrators of the SharePoint...
- Tags: IT Governance, Webcast, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Groupware, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- IT Governance Continues to Provide Justification for Rapid ITIL Adoption
- The overall governance framework should administer all process refinement activities for a given organization. Although no single framework fits all, the COSO/COBIT model seems to have been almost exclusively chosen by external auditors to define the control objectives that support the business processes. Considering almost half of the many control...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Framework, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
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- IT Governance: Creating a "Business Within a Business" Model for the IT Organization
- IT Organizations have traditionally been modeled as "Cost centers" i.e. they are given a set budget to do things to support the business. Their success or failure is dependent on meeting set cost targets. Treating IT as a cost center disconnects cost from value in direct contradiction to perhaps the...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Business, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- IT Governance: eBusiness Strategy - Profit From the Net
- When it comes to eBusiness, "Hype" is a word that often comes to mind. First there was a wave, then a bust. Finally, the demise of eBusiness was pronounced. The good news is that eBusiness is alive and well. More important, it has proven its ability to deliver value to...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, News, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
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- Video: IT Governance & Risk Management - Corporate Excellence through Technology
- Watch this engaging panel discussion from CMPTV and learn how leading edge companies can create environments where business success is intrinsically linked to technology. In this lively conversation, top IBM executives Val Rahmani, Dr. Daniel Sabbah, and Al Zollar discuss why no business should be without an...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Video, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- Strategic IT Governance Portfolio Management Package Improved by the .NET Framework
- ProSight develops portfolio management software. The previous version of the ProSight Portfolios was developed on a Microsoft Windows DNA architecture using Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0. ProSight needed to develop a new version on a mainstream platform. After considering a pure Java solution, ProSight translated its J++ code to C#, and...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET Framework, IT Governance, Information Technology, ProSight Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, C#, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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- COBIT Foundation Exam Prep 3-Day Boot Camp
- Instantly save $400 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends August 22, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsDiscover the benefits of a sound IT governance framework and learn to realize effective IT governance using the COBIT best practices framework. Using ...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, COBIT, Strategy, Management
- Training 2008-06-01
