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- 10 early signs that someone will make a great leader
- Many performance reviews have ended with a conversation regarding advancement opportunities for employees and what they need to do to get to the next level. Most of them think that to advance, they need to become a manager. So naturally I ask them the age-old question "What's the difference between...
- Tags: Team, Leader, Leadership, Team Management, Management, Bill Stronge
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- 10 early signs that someone will make a great leader
- It's important to identify individuals who have leadership potential so that you can help them step into that role when they're ready. Here are some behaviors and qualities that may indicate you have some promising future leaders on your team.This download is also available as an entry in our 10...
- Tags: Leader, Bill Stronge, Leadership, Management
- Download resources 2008-05-07
- How to deal with an unhappy employee
- Bill Stronge, a veteran IT pro, gives IT leaders something to think about in a new download: Would you be surprised to know that some of your employees dread getting up for work in the morning? Most of your team members probably like to do a good job at...
- Tags: Employee, Leader, Team Management, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Teaching What It Takes to Be a Business leader
- Founded in 1965, ESIC Escuela Superior de Gestion Comercial y Marketing is the country's leading business studies institution with a specific focus on marketing. It is a private business school running postgraduate programs dedicated to general business, financial, human resources, commercial and, of course, marketing management. The challenge was to...
- Tags: Leader, SAS Institute, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Case studies
- Medical Instruments leader Uses Distributed Web Services to Deliver State-of-the-Art Customer Service
- Already known for its outstanding customer service, a leading medical instruments manufacturer wanted to raise the service bar even higher. Diagnostic Products Corp. is piloting a distributed Web services solution that remotely monitors its customers' in-field devices and notifies service technicians of problems before customers are even aware trouble is...
- Tags: Web, Customer Service, Leader, Web Service, Intel Corp., Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Web Services, Channel Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- World leader in Floor Coverings Improves Performance With Avaya IP Office Solution
- Tarkett Sommer is one of the world's largest and most innovative flooring companies. The company used an outdated PABX which was inadequate for the growing needs of their business. The company wanted to install a reliable, scalable telephony solution to improve customer service, increase staff productivity and lower costs. As...
- Tags: Performance, Leader, Avaya Inc., Tarkett Sommer, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies
- Russian Cellular leader, VimpelCom, Counts on Avaya Contact Center Solution to Deliver Superior Customer Service
- Operating under the well-known BeeLine brand, VimpelCom is one of Russia's three leading cellular service companies and the first Russian company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Service quality has been a key to growth for VimpelCom, one of the three leading Russian cellular service providers. So when subscriber...
- Tags: Customer Service, Leader, Contact Center, Avaya Inc., Service Quality, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Healthcare IT Department Develops Project leaders Through e-Learning
- Based in Wilmington, Del., Christiana Care Health System is one of the largest healthcare providers in the mid-Atlantic region. Christiana Care's information technology department supports various projects throughout the health system that often require specialized training or expertise in particular IT areas, as well as project management skills. Following a...
- Tags: Information Technology, Leader, E-learning, Health Care, SkillSoft, Healthcare IT Department, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Human Resources
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- Forbes.com Reaches Business leaders With Intel Built in
- G.D. Somani Memorial School, located at Cuffe Parade, Mumbai in India, serves a growing student body of about 2000 students. An increase in enrollment combined with expanded use of lab facilities was producing a strain on the school's computing resources. They needed a solution that would address reliability and security...
- Tags: Leader, Forbes, Intel Corp., Performance Management, Linux, Leadership, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Case studies
- TEKsystems Case Study: A Market leader in the Defense and Technology Business Sectors and Top Department Of Defense (DOD) Contractor
- A market leader in the Defense and Technology sectors was awarded the Intelligence Information, Command and Control Equipment and Enhancements (ICE2) contract to provide Contractor Logistics Support CLS to the Department Of Defense Intelligence Information Systems' DODIIS worldwide communities. Upon contract award, the client needed to quickly procure additional security-cleared...
- Tags: Leader, TEKsystems, U.S. Department Of Defense, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- Case studies
- HP Integrity Servers With Intel Itanium 2 Processors Help Veracomp Become the leader of the Value-Added Distribution Market
- Based in Krakow, Poland, Veracomp SA is a distributor of advanced IT solutions, focusing on server, network, and storage solutions. In 2004, when the computing power of its installed solutions proved insufficient, Veracomp decided to deploy HP Integrity servers, which are a solid platform for reliability, availability, and virtualization capabilities....
- Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Leader, Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Server, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies
- How the leader in Creative Analytics Accurately Calculates Storage Consumption With Global Storage Manager Software
- As the preeminent provider of creative analytics that unlock value for people, businesses and industries, this company's predictive modeling, decision analysis, intelligence management, decision management systems and consulting services power billions of mission-critical customer decisions a year. Senior management wanted the IT organization to justify additional storage purchases by demonstrating...
- Tags: Software, Analytics, Leader, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- leader in Global Financial Services Invests in StreamLine SL8500 Modular Library Systems to Consolidate Data, Cut Costs
- With more than 150,000 employees and millions of customers worldwide, the firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and businesses, financial transaction processing, asset and wealth management, and private equity. In preparation for the merger, the IT team realized that combining technologies was going to be...
- Tags: Partnership, Financial Service, Streamline, Sun Microsystems Inc., Leader, Business Structures, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Leadership, Finance, Management
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- leader Mutual Freight System Improves Database Uptime With Powerful, Scalable Solution
- Based in Taipei, Leader Mutual Freight System has close to 30 years experience in transporting goods via air, road, and sea. The company offers freight services, logistics planning, warehousing and distribution, and customs brokerage, and specializes in the transport of perishable goods and delicate equipment. The challenge was to minimize...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Leader, Uptime, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Design and Analysis of a leader Election Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Leader election is a very important problem, not only in wired networks, but in mobile, ad hoc networks as well. Existing solutions to leader election do not handle frequent topology changes and dynamic nature of mobile networks. This paper presents a leader election algorithm that is highly adaptive to arbitrary...
- Tags: Algorithm, Mobile, Network, Leader, Analysis, Leader Election, Engineering, Leadership, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing
- White papers
- Lean Best Practices: Learn From the leaders
- Do you want to learn more about scheduling the demand-driven factory? Do you want to know why level scheduling is critical to successful kanban implementation? What is Heijunka and how does it work? This webcast discusses these topics.
- Tags: Factory, Leader, Best Practice, Leadership, Digital Media, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Symmetry Software, a Market leader in Functional and Practical Software Solutions for Payroll Issues and Challenges, Increases Sales and Efficiency Utilizing Linktivity's WebDemo
- Symmetry Software, a leader in payroll related software applications for the Internet and Corporate Intranets, was searching for a way to easily customize its software solutions for companies' payroll departments. All too often, Symmetry would spend a significant amount of time demonstrating to prospective companies the functions of its paycheck...
- Tags: Software, Symmetry, Linktivity, Leader, Payroll, Software Solutions Inc., Inter-Tel Inc., Sales, Operational Accounting, Finance
- Case studies
- Building an IT Structure for a World leader in Construction: How Skanska's IT Group Maintains Its Focus by Outsourcing ERP Management to OneNeck
- Having acquired numerous companies in the previous decade - ranging in size from $100 million to $1 billion and comprising the $3.9 billion Skanska of today - CIO was charged with migrating all the companies onto the J.D. Edwards application platform already in use by a few of the organizations....
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Leader, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- Case studies
- IT Infrastructure and Hosting leader Cuts Costs With Server Consolidation
- TELUS, Canada's market leader for mission-critical IT infrastructure and application hosting, is constantly aiming to reduce technology costs for its customers. To meet that goal more effectively, TELUS will offer hosted environments using virtual machines running on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. The company expects server...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, Leader, TELUS Corp., Microsoft Corp., Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- Golf Equipment leader Boosts Order Processing, Realizes ROI in Just 18 Months
- As the manufacturer of well-known golf equipment brands such as Titleist, FootJoy, and Cobra, Acushnet Company places significant emphasis on customer service. In fact, the company's sales representatives keep a quantity of stock on hand to deliver products, immediately and in person, to customers in times of need. Although popular...
- Tags: Leader, ROI, Microsoft Corp., Pocket PC, Roi/Tco, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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