Strategic Planning Research
-
Let the Bridge Fall - As Long as It Falls on Time
Sponsored by: TeamQuest CorporationDifferent managers have different philosophies for project planning and scheduling, especially when it comes to meeting deadlines. But what if there was a way to improve risk management in relation to corporate projects? Learn how capacity planning provides the foresight necessary to complete projects on time and boost customer satisfaction.
-
Capacity Management Is Crucial in Virtualized Environments: Without the Right Tools, IT Service Optimization Is Tricky
Sponsored by: TeamQuest CorporationVirtualization offers a more flexible solution where resources can be redistributed in accordance with shifting demands. However, virtualization resources add a new abstraction layer to the infrastructure stack, which can complicate IT service optimization. Read on to learn best practices for optimizing IT services in complex virtual environments.
-
The Key To Cloud And Virtual Computing: Managing And Planning Capacity In 2011 And Beyond
Sponsored by: TeamQuest CorporationThe flexibility and cost alternatives provided by virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS present organizations with a choice of platforms to run applications or a business service. These computing models highlight the need for a better capacity management process. Learn about effectively managing capacity for improvements in business services.
-
Capacity Management Maturity Assessment
Sponsored by: TeamQuest CorporationTake this capacity management maturity assessment in order to better understand how your company handles performance goals, business forecasting and business process management. Gain advice based on your answers to the assessment questions that will help move your company to higher levels of maturity.
-
The New CIO Agenda: Intel Cloud Computing Insights 2011
Sponsored by: IntelCloud computing offers a way for businesses to handle the high demand for IT services and increase enterprise efficiency. Access this white paper to learn best practices for utilizing cloud infrastructure to increase your ROI and satisfy end user needs.
-
CIO Innovators Series Presentation Transcript
Sponsored by: BMC-AccentureInside this presentation transcript, hear from Avi Saha the Vice President of Platform Architecture, Web and Database Services at ADP. Gain insight on how CIOs can achieve innovation through strategic investments, business and IT alignment and operational efficiency.
-
What CFOs Should Ask their Software Development Leaders
Sponsored by: IBMThis paper illustrates a new way of thinking about the funding of IT software projects, one that considers funding in terms of investment, and value as an expansive, longitudinal variable.
-
Planning for Cloud: How enterprise architecture management can help drive your IT transition
Sponsored by: IBMIs your organisation ready to explore the benefits of cloud computing? Read this white paper from IBM and discover how an enterprise architecture approach can help you take the first critical steps to success with Cloud.
-
Smarter Business Planning and Transformation: Attain maximum value from your Enterprise Architecture
Sponsored by: IBMExplore architecture management with IBM. Find out how the four elements of actionable enterprise architecture can transform your business.
-
Making the case for cloud: Using soft skills for hard results
Sponsored by: BMC-AccentureWhen Lands’ End was struggling to improve agility and scalability in fragmented legacy systems, CIO Steve Cretney knew it was the perfect opportunity to move to the cloud. Inside this exclusive e-guide, find out how Cretney successfully made the case for a new cloud computing model at Lands’ End.
-
Intelligent Health Care
Sponsored by: TechTarget Health ITClinical decision support technology takes business intelligence (BI) to the next level by offering caregivers evidence-based, best-practice information, providing automated responses in response to patient data and much more. Inside this e-book, learn how your healthcare facility can benefit from clinical BI tools.
-
BI Trends in Health Care
Sponsored by: TechTarget Health ITAnalyzing clinical data can accomplish many goals: Improving patient care through understanding trends and showing paths to improvement, enhancing research and creating business efficiencies and cutting operational costs. Inside this expert e-book, learn how to take advantage of business intelligence and data analytics at your healthcare facility.
-
Six Common Mistakes that Plague IT Projects and Three Keys to Avoid Them
Sponsored by: AtTaskWhen it comes to IT projects, there are a number of common mistakes – and too often project managers avoid the problems that those mistakes create instead of facing them head on. Inside this white paper, learn about the 6 most common IT project mistakes and 3 ways to avoid them.
-
How To Increase Productivity and Reduce Costs Across The Enterprise
Sponsored by: AtTaskAlthough the current economic situation is improving, many organizations are opting to keep operational expenses on a tight leash, and some have decided to freeze hiring and re-evaluate project budgets. Learn how project management tools can help drive strategic planning and decision making for greater efficiency in your organization.
-
How To Align Corporate Strategy with Project Execution
Sponsored by: AtTaskThe biggest challenge for IT leaders today is making sure that projects are aligned with the strategic and financial goals of their organizations. Learn why implementing a project and portfolio management (PPM) approach could help simplify your objectives. Gain insight on PPM topics such as allocating resources, capacity planning and more.
-
IBM Business Process Manager -- Powerfully Simple
Sponsored by: IBMIBM Business Process Manager provides the simplicity, efficiency, visibility and collaboration needed to manage highly dynamic and networked business environments. IBM Business Process Manager is easy to deploy and use straight out of the box or in an easily customizable configuration - providing rapid time to value and improved user productivity.
-
Improving business intelligence performance in SQL Server environments
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®This expert resource explains why more and more SMBs are implementing SQL Server-based business intelligence systems. Learn how to cost-effectively improve the performance of these platforms as well as how to overcome common concerns, including systems management.
-
Running IT as a Business: Seven Steps to Aligning IT with the Business
Sponsored by: SASThis white paper outlines the 7 steps to aligning IT with the business. Find out what they are and how they can help your business provide customer-driven results.
-
Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis data sheet details how Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management extends the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition with capabilities that enable strategic goals to be communicated across the organization and monitoring progress over time.
-
The Business Case for Outsourcing to Vietnam
Sponsored by: LogiGear CorporationThis white paper provides a business case for considering Vietnam as an offshore outsourcing destination, and offers specific examples from the IT and software industries, including a US software testing firm with a facility in Vietnam.
-
Marketing in the 4th Dimension: 4 Keys to Personalizing the Web Experience
Sponsored by: Unica Corporation - An IBM CompanyIn this brief paper you’ll discover the 4 key dimensions to personalized Web marketing and learn real-life successes of enterprises that have made the personalized Web a core part of their growth strategies. Deliver greater value for your customers and your company through a centralized interactive marketing platform.
-
E-Guide: Developing a Strategy for and Implementing Real-time BI and Analytics
Sponsored by: Tableau SoftwareMany organizations are realizing the interesting and paradoxical pattern that exists with BI applications: the more you use them, the more new and different requirements keep pouring in. Read this E-Guide and learn to gain a stronger understanding of your customers and business as well as to excel in today’s competitive market with real-time BI.
-
Step by Step: A methodology to information quality
Sponsored by: Harte-Hanks Trillium SoftwareDo you have an existing information quality strategy? While most organizations understand the need for data quality, they still face the challenge of implementing an effective strategy to provide information that aligns to business requirements. Register for this webcast and learn the 4 steps to a successful information quality strategy.
-
How Will the Transition to ICD-10 codes affect Health IT?
Sponsored by: Virtusa CorporationAs of Oct. 1, 2015, U.S. health care providers must use ICD-10 codes when they submit medical claims. This FAQ e-guide addresses what the transition means, advantages of using ICD-10, as well as best practices on how providers can prepare and succeed in an ICD 10 conversion.
-
Journal of Management Excellence: Creating Options
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationRead this collection of journal articles to learn a variety of approaches to creating options for business success, even in the face of scarce resources.