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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...
- Tags: Information Technology, Leader, Video, Competency, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Jason Hiner
- 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...
- Tags: Core Competency, Talent, SumTotal Systems, Performance, Best Practice, Competency, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
- 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...
- Tags: Outsource, ROI, Competency, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- 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...
- Tags: Information Technology, Competency, Professional Development, Strategy, Career, Management
- 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...
- Tags: Business Analyst, Project Failure, Competency
- 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...
- Tags: Team, Performance, Competency, Team Management, Management
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- Garmin plots Android phone
- Why does everyone think they can make a good phone?!Granted Apple made it look easy with the iPhone, but look at Motorola. The Droid appears to have broken their streak of clunkers, but even a company with a long-history of successes in the market can struggle to turn out a...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Smart phones, Droid, Garmin Ltd., phone
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Is Google's Go language worth teaching or learning?
- How manny more languages...... does one need to just doConsole.out.println("Hello world!");?RE: Is Google's Go language worth teaching or learning?I always wonder what Google will do next. They always surprise me. Go looks promising.Google wants to be just as dominant...if not more so...than M$.So one more way to get there is...
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Development tools, Bing, Pascal, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise
- ChoiceIt's exciting to see more choice coming to the market for cloud email. I see this marketing evolving like the telco market, where there will be a number of big providers (e.g., 5 or so) and then small regional / vertical vendors. It should be interesting to watch....
- Tags: tool, collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- 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...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Firm, Channel Partner, Business Services, Strategy, Supply Chain, Product Development, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Brian Sommer
- 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...
- Tags: Dennis Howlett
- 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...
- Tags: Channel management, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Visual Studio, Web development, Web Development Tools, Microsoft Corp., Web, proc, Linux
- 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. ...
- Tags: Certification, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Andy Klee, EBS Certification, JDE World, JDE Customer, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- The Hedge Fund Disclosure Paradox
- It has long been accepted that risk management is a core competency for generating absolute returns within a hedge fund strategy. Historic performance levels supported the view that expertise in identifying, measuring and managing risk was proprietary. Prior to the downturn, superior performance enabled hedge fund managers to diffuse investor...
- Tags: Performance, Hedge Fund, Risk Management, Investor, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Strategy, Investment, Security, Finance, Management
- White papers 2009-08-13
- 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...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Bing, video
- 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...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Financial Planning, Right Now IT, health care, insurance, cut cost, incentive
- 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...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- 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...
- Tags: Web, ISBN, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- 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...
- Tags: Workplace, Webcast, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Office, Collaboration, Leadership, Management
- 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...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
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