Brand IT |
Promoting IS internally may raise a department's profile and unify a
fractured staff. Or it could backfire. |
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Complexity: How to Stave off Chaos |
It's only going to get worse. Just about every CIO has had to face
down the monster of IT complexity. There are ways to corral it, even
defeat it, but they aren't easy or cheap. February 2003 |
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Digitizing Down To The Core |
New research shows that successful companies develop IT
infrastructures and digitized business processes that automate their
core capabilities. Here's the secret sauce your company can use.
2006 |
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Guide to Network Security |
pdf-file, 2002 |
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How
to Apply EVA to IT |
Looking at IT investments through the lens of an EVA analysis can
help quantify and demonstrate their value in language your CFO will
understand. |
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How
to Improve Your IT Security Policy: A Six Sigma Approach |
Most companies have security policies, but few can claim with
certainty they are effective. How can CIOs improve their policies
and win the active support of management and staff? Try using the
Six Sigma method to overcome the litany of problems most CIOs face. |
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Information Technology Fashions: Building on the Theory of
Management Fashions |
Recent studies of management fashions have used discourse data that
contributed to our understanding of the forces underlying the rise
and fall in popularity of new management techniques. Like management
fashions, there are many IT (information technology) fashions.
pdf-file 2002 |
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Infrastructure for Transactional Applications |
Building an infrastructure for transactional applications. Reusable
patterns and best practice recommendations. Pdf-file |
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Is
a Centralized or Decentralized IT Organization Better? |
Centralize? Decentralize? Both have their pluses — and minuses.
Here's what you need to know to weigh the options. |
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IT
Matters |
Ethics, Information Systems, and a Steel Ax. 2005 |
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IT
Performance |
Management surveys examine IT performance, article describes what
management should think about when planning to examine IT
performance |
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Legacy Systems |
Pulling the Plug on a Legacy System. Deciding what to do with legacy
systems is one of the most common decisions a CIO faces. This
decision tree can help you decide whether to keep, retire or change
yours. March 2003 |
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Managing IT Assets |
Organizations usually have an inventory control function that is
designed to track large capital assets. When organizations track IT
assets, however, the techniques used to track other capital assets
may fall short and not deliver all the possible value to the
organization. This paper discusses IT capital asset management and
describes the benefits that accrue from doing it properly. pdf-file |
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Mapping IT Resources for Successful Implementations |
A strategy for leveraging multiple, often competing, resources
required to succeed with complex system implementations. 2006 |
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Network Security Policy: Best Practices White Paper |
The policy begins with assessing the risk to the network and
building a team to respond. Continuation of the policy requires
implementing a security change management practice and monitoring
the network for security violations. Lastly, the review process
modifies the existing policy and adapts to lessons learned. |
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Notebook Computers and Wireless Networks |
How the strategic coupling of notebook computers and wireless
networks makes a business more successful. Pdf-file. June 2002 |
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Prioritizing to Make The Most of Your IT Investment |
The author offers his perspective on how industrial manufacturers
can improve their IT spend by focusing on business basics. Pdf-file,
58 KB, 2002 |
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Putting IT Theory Into Practice |
Charting a brilliant alignment course is easy; getting it
implemented is the real challenge. May 2004 |
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Putting Two and Two Together |
Most businesses are home to scores of information systems that
remain uselessly disconnected from one another. Until those systems
are integrated, technology investments won't live up to your
expectations. |
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Real-Time Enterprise |
Real Time or Right Time? Explaining the Real-Time Enterprise. 2003 |
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Road Maps Through Uncertainty |
New models for planning strategic IT investments can improve your
odds of success in today's changeable climate. |
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Spending Smarter: Rebalancing the IT Budget |
When current infrastructure and maintenance costs commandeer most of
the budget, how can IT executives change the equation? By reining in
day-to-day technology costs, companies can ultimately spend more on
the technology that will set them apart. 2006 |
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Store Software |
The E-Commerce times reviews the top solutions in store software |
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Strategy Maps |
Is your technology strategy in harmony with business goals? First,
be sure that everyone describes the strategy in common terms—or risk
breaking the connections that link your information systems to a
business payoff. Here's a guide to getting everyone on the same
page. November 2003 |
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The
Elusive IT Balanced Scorecard |
Here's how to develop a systematic approach for measuring IT's
contribution to the bottom line. |
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The
IT factor |
Just who's leading whom? Adam Carswell looks at whether IT is
shaking up business or the other way round |
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Top
10 Technology Risks |
Intel has compiled this list of the Top 10 Technology Risks your
business faces and how you can avoid them. Pdf-file |
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Traveling Toward the Next Generation Internet |
What is the next evolution of the internet? Will new webservices
mean real improvements? |
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Tuning Up Legacy Systems |
Continual enhancements and modernization are the best defense
against system obsolescence. |
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Value Discovery: A Better Way to Prioritize IT Investments |
The current debate over IT spending often misses the point. It’s not
how much you spend, it’s the way you manage your IT spending that
counts. The goal is not reduced spending but selective,
value-creating spending that makes a greater contribution to the
bottom line. pdf-file 692 KB. October 2003 |
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When Activity-Based Management Meets IT |
Applying ABM to information technology helps companies maximize IT
resources and promotes understanding of how this critical function
meets the needs of all departments. |
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Linux |
What You Should Know About Linux (and Why It Matters) - Article with
introducory content |
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Open Source Software - As Good As It Gets |
The author discusses a philosophy of programming, called Open Source
Software, that may revolutionize the software world. The fact is
that much of the ecommerce world we know today runs on open source
software. Pdf-file 2003 |
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Open Source: Beyond the Fairly Tales |
Could there be a "pot of gold" for organizations that embrace the
open source software development model and business strategy?
Pdf-file 2004 |
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Open Up to Open Source Software |
Open source software is coming of age. Growing use by businesses
means that key decision-makers need to understand the open source
model and how it differs from the traditional approach to supplying
software. Pdf-file 72 KB. January 2004 |
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Roundtable: Breaking The Code |
Open-source software is still a plaything for some, but others see
it as the low-cost, innovation leader for Web servers and app
development. May 2004 |
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Six
Options For Open-Source Support |
Where do you turn to keep open-source applications running smoothly?
2006 |
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The
Ignorance of Crowds |
The open source model, which relies on contributions from many
individuals, can be an important factor in innovation, but it comes
with limitations. Although this approach can be effective at
refining programs or ideas that already exist, it is less successful
when used to generate new ideas or to complete a project. Executives
who understand this distinction will see the best results from the
power of peer production. 2007 |
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The
Myths of Open Source |
It isn't all about cheap: Companies keep finding good reasons to
take advantage of open-source software. 2004 |
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The
Success of Open Source |
Excerpts from Steve Weber's book The Success of Open Source.
Pdf-file
Find this book at amazon.com |
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