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Getting Work Done Through People
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
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Eight Great Geek Vacations
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Don't just do the same stuff everyone else does, go geeky.
- Any self-respecting geek knows a good summer getaway isn't built around Disneyland or the Grand Canyon or Hawaii, places where the normal, non-techie throngs gather. Instead, it's about someplace quirky or scientific or laden with fantasy. Someplace that channels the inner child. Someplace that m...
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Eight Ways Porn Changed the Internet
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Al Gore may take credit for inventing it. The Department of Defense deserves credit for building out its infrastructure. But lets face it: The real wizards behind the curtain, the first true marketeers of the Internet, and the virtuosos of virtual innovation are the Internets purveyors of porn. Heres how the porn industry has helped evolve the Internet, for both good and bad.
by Ericka Chickowski
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Partnering for Outsourcing Success
Monday, June 29, 2009
Poor vendor management and governance make too many outsourcing deals go sour.
- Nearly half of all IT outsourcing (ITO) deals fail to satisfy the customers service improvement and cost reduction expectations. Why? The reason can often be traced to poor vendor management and governance. On the flip side, when governance is implemented correctly, it can help foster the vendor acc...
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Dangerous Former Employees
Friday, June 26, 2009
Insider threats from ex-employees linger when IT organizations fail to deprovision terminated workers access to all systems.
Read Ericka Chickowski's article on this topic.
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IT Fails to Protect Against Ex-Employees
Friday, June 26, 2009
Account revocation processes are bungled at many companies.
- As the economy weakens, more and more companies face the risk of mischief from once-trusted insiders, even when theyre no longer inside the organization. A survey conducted by access management firm Courion found troubling new evidence that many companies employ inefficient methods to shut off acces...
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10 Benefits of SaaS Collaborative Work Management
Thursday, June 25, 2009
What Frontier Airlines learned from its recent project.
See also a detailed article on this topic.
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IT Spending Outlook Still Uncertain
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
CIOs will continue struggle with iffy budgets throughout the rest of the year, according to a new poll conducted among 900 CIOs by Gartner Executive Programs. Released in mid-June week, results showed an expected IT spending decline in 2009 of about 4.7%. Figures were compared to a similar poll conducted at the end of 2008.
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Frontier Flies on Work-Management Software
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The airline uses collaborative work-management software to navigate through turbulent times.
- See our slideshow on this topic. Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc., operator of Frontier Airlines, has had to navigate through turbulent times recently: a bankruptcy filing in 2008, depressed domestic travel, and layoffs. To help manage operations during these challenges, the Denver, Colo., compan...
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The Speed of Business Today
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Constant change is the new dynamic of the global economy, making agility more necessary than ever.
- Business leaders often use agility to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, but its often little more than just a vision. Agility is something that requires planning and a full incorporation in business and management processes. Its a philosophy and action. And, most of all, it re...
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Insider Security Breaches Increase
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has released its mid-year analysis of major data breaches reported so far in 2009. Though the total numbers show an improvement over the first half of 2008, ITRC is reporting the percentage of insider attacks and breaches caused by hacking is on the rise. As it does with all of its reports, ITRC warns users to remember that the number of reported breaches is likely just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actual breach statistics. Many more incidents go unreported.
See also: Snooping by IT Workers on the Rise and 14 Insider Threats
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What Business Managers Really Think of IT
Monday, June 22, 2009
A survey of non-IT executives, conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the IT Governance Institute, shows that many business leaders believe IT investments create value, but many still view the department as an operational and tactical asset rather than as a strategic partner.
Full results can be found in the ITGI report An Executive View of IT Governance.
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Understanding Governance, Risk and Compliance
Friday, June 19, 2009
Aberdeen Group conducted a comprehensive study of 130 enterprises regarding their attitudes and practices surrounding governance, risk and compliance (GRC) initiatives. This slideshow highlights findings from Aberdeens wrap-up report, IT GRC: Managing Risk, Improving Visibility, and Reducing Operating Costs, by analyst Derek Brink.
One detail: the GRC acronym has things out of order; Aberdeen says enterprises emphasize compliance first, IT governance next and risk management last.
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Virtualized Bureaucracy
Friday, June 19, 2009
So, just how efficient is a bureaucrat in the data center? No, that isnt the beginning to a great joke. It is a question posed by CDW Government in its most recent survey on virtualization within federal agencies, across the civilian and defense spectrum. The company questioned 377 government IT managers in April, compiling the results in its 2009 Federal Virtualization Report released in mid-June.
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Where Are They Now? Nine Internet Phenoms
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Memes come and go on the web, spread by email and YouTube and word of mouth. But what happens to the stars once the webcams are off?
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Business and IT Disagree on Disaster Recovery
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
In a poll of IT executives and line-of-business leaders, a recent State of Disaster Recovery survey found that each group still has its own ideas about business continuity. Conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of SunGard Availability Services, results show what IT workers are up against when it comes to advocating disaster recovery activities.
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