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- Essential competencies for IT leaders [video]
-  IT leaders need a full arsenal of cross-functional skills, including a lot of stuff that goes beyond the traditional IT skill set. While it helps to be well grounded in the company’s technology platforms and it’s important to have strong business management skills, some of other essential competencies are a...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Ten Best Practices for Successful Competency Management
- As the foundation of a talent development strategy, your competency model guides the end-to-end management of your organization's talent base - from performance assessments & goal achievement, to training & development, workforce planning, and recruiting. However, as our economy shifts focus to delivering knowledge and services, core competencies become harder...
- White papers 2008-12-09
- ROI of Outsourcing Information Technology
- In today's economic environment, companies of all sizes need to re-evaluate how they do business, with acumen for finding cost-cutting savings and productivity increases. Most areas outside a "Core" competency of the business are evaluated for outsourcing. These outsourced functions are enablers for the business, but not directly related to...
- White papers 2008-12-05
- 10 essential competencies for IT pros
- If you're serious about becoming a successful, well-rounded IT professional, you need to constantly broaden your skills and knowledge--and in some areas that might surprise you. This list details key competencies that will help advance your career. IT pros need a bewildering and ever-expanding array of cross-functional...
- Download resources 2006-05-10
- Eight Things Your Business Analysts Need to Know: A Practical Approach to Recognizing and Improving Competencies
- Each year, organizations across the globe face astronomical project failure rates, often wasting millions of dollars per failed project. This paper examines the roots of project failure and centers in on the elusive, often undefined role of the business analyst. In response to research showing that many organizations have not...
- White papers 2006-02-15
- Improving Business Performance Through Project Competency
- Competencies are behaviors that can be consistently repeated and that become second nature to your team members. Organizations rely on team members to consistently outperform themselves on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis. In this webcast, you will learn specific practices to identify the ideal participants in your projects, improve your ability...
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- Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI's and Channel Partners
- Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP. I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers
- Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Microsoft makes Web development tools available for free
- right...'free tools' that cost you arm and leg when you realized you just missed a small component not included in the 'stack'...kind of like getting a free car with no wheels.RE: Microsoft makes Web development tools available for freeFor example? What would one of those components be?Give an ExampleWhat...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- JD Edwards certification woes
- Andy Klee takes a stern look at JD Edwards certification: I'm here to tell you that the JDE certification program is on life support. It barely exists. JDE employees cannot be certified, and neither can JDE clients. Only business partners are eligible to take certification exams. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Is Bing worth all the money Microsoft is throwing at it? [video]
- Is Bing worth all the money Microsoft is throwing at it? [video]Who says they can't do all three?Last Time I looked, Apple is advertising Macs, iPod, and iPhones, while dumping money into Safari, AppleTV, MobileMe, ect.Right now, Windows 7 isn't released yet, is it worth starting the ad campain today?From...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-04
- Health reform must focus on incentives to cut costs
- Health reform must focus on incentives to cut costsChanging who pays for health careis precisely what is needed to cut costs. The only problem is, who pays for health care needs to be you, and not someone else. As long as we simply shift who the "someone else" is, the...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-10
- Building the Business Intelligence Competency Center
- This paper outlines how a Business Intelligence Competency Center can help organisations better leverage their investment in technology and improve the effectiveness of knowledge workers, transition analysts from technical data gatherers to solution providers and optimise fact-based business processes. A common philosophical discussion surrounding the BICC concept asks: should a...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Web Squared: Web 2.0's Successor?
- Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle discussed their vision and nomenclature for the next iteration of the web in a webinar last Thursday: I believe the recording will be available online sometime this week, slides are above. With the term 'Web 2.0' enjoying its fifth birthday...
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- Live Webcast: Trust and the 21st Century Workplace
- The increased flexibility and productivity enabled by today's virtual office tools benefit employees and businesses alike. Unfortunately, many managers still find it difficult to trust that their employees will achieve results when working outside the company's bricks and mortar. The challenge, then, is how do you build an organization of...
- Webcasts 2009-05-21
- Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?
- Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
- Operating System Upgrade Prepares Product Distributor for Future
- Bhinneka.com has expanded its business lines from being a distributor of hardware and software products to being a total IT service solution provider. It recognized the need to stay at the leading edge of technology to convince its customers of its competency in providing solutions. Internally, it has a plan...
- Case studies 2009-05-15
- Get Me To The Parts Store On Time
- Sigurd Rinde has written an interesting take on the status quo in large enterprises and the need to quietly infiltrate enterprise 2.0 value rather than confront the powers that be, citing Sun Tzu the master military strategist. I thought of this today as...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- How much does open source cost schools?
- How much does open source cost schools?Why don't YOU share with people the challenges you facedwhen moving entirely to Linux? Oh wait, you didn't? Then why are you asking other people to do it?RE: How much does open source cost schools?Just imagine a world where *nix skills where as common...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Cost-Saving TPL Processing Made Easy
- If people are struggling to stay competitive in a tough marketplace, they're not alone. Expectations of claimants, providers, and regulatory agencies are changing quicker than ever before, requiring unprecedented agility. Customer satisfaction today is measured by their ability to provide instant, detailed, and accurate answers to questions. TPL processing involving...
- Case studies 2009-04-13
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