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- 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, Competency, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career
- White papers 2006-02-15
- The Unexplored Territory of Distance Education for Multi-National Professionals in Project Management
- This paper examines research into the development of a pedagogical framework for distance education DE in postgraduate project management studies at an Australian university as part of its strategy to deliver 'transnational' education. Project management requires development of technical, strategic, organisational and leadership competencies, but strategies to foster these professional...
- Tags: Education, Distance Education, Competency, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, E-learning, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-10-26
- Killing the False Gods of Project Management
- Focusing on the role within organizations of the project management discipline to design and implement strategy, as source of competitive advantage through the development of competencies leads the author to question the way the project management field is defined. Indeed this field is the basis for the development of standards,...
- Tags: Competency, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-02-22
- 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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- Microsoft-Yahoo on again?
- Microsoft-Yahoo on again?This will go on, and on, for some time to come yet. And, we thought therewould be nothing to entertain us this month!!! But, MS has the money, and as FireFox numbers keep on creeping up, and Googles numbers still rising, MS is also getting even more desperate...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirms
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirmsThe only way Icahn could "save" GM would be to buy up shares cheap, andthen sell them to Toyota for double the money.... matchnow which one is the Match and who is the striker They are both very incendiary...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Micro$oft, board, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Confirms, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Lessons from American university education
- I sometimes "relax" by logging on to PalTalk, a system designed for real-time voice chat, finding rooms where I can debate important issues related to politics or economics. I'm not always successful, as it's surprising how often those forums descend into free-for-alls where individuals take turns at the mic throwing...
- Tags: Education, University, Europe, American University, University Of South Dakota, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Why I didn't like "Microhoo"
- Yesterday was not a good day to be Jerry Yang. A year after returning to the helm of the company he co-founded, Yang found himself faced with an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, one that offered to pay a 50% premimum over the price of Yahoo stock. Though not ruling the...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Developer Orientation, Team Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, DVR, Management, Investment, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- In search of Business ByDesign: The NetWeaver 7.1 connection
- In search of Business ByDesign: The NetWeaver 7.1 connectionSaaS needs a 16:1 Operations Cost ReductionGreat post Larry, I wish I was there with you guys to hear from the horse's mouth.I've been writing for a long time that SaaS has a 16:1 operations cost advantage over conventional software. You...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, software-as-a-service, NetWeaver 7.1, Business ByDesign, SAP NetWeaver
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Homerton University Hospital Accelerates Employee Learning Through Integrated and Personalized Training
- Homerton University Hospital wanted to improve competency of the 287 users of Oracle-based financial and purchasing processes and cut training time for new starters and identify gaps in user knowledge and leverage Oracle's full functionality to optimize staff and process efficiency. The challenge was to provide refresher courses, post-upgrade training,...
- Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., Training, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UACEd, You RockExcellent article; thanks a bunch.RE: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UACFinally! A journalist that spends time telling us how to make our vista experience better instead of endlessly trashing it.So many journalists think they are providing some "value" by telling...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UAC, Taming UAC, Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Where's the money in open source?
- Where's the money in open source?The comparison is not vaildMass production is a concept. Software is a work product. Those who mass produced still had to buy the work product of others to implement the concept assembly line components are not free of cost. The people that provided those parts...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- Is Cloud computing too good to be true for enterprises?
- Just how valuable will Cloud computing be to organizations? The ease of deployment and pay-as-you-go pricing model offered through Amazon Web Services, and now Google with its Google App Engine with no pricing model could be a honey trap, as some of my esteemed colleagues here at ZDNet warn. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Dion, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- Comparing Amazon's and Google's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
- The announcement this week that Google released a beta version of a robust cloud computing platform called Google App Engine that lets anyone build apps on Google's renowned and highly scalable infrastructure underscored a key trend in the software industry today. Namely that software platforms are moving from their...
- Tags: Google Inc., Platform, PaaS, Amazon.com Inc., Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- EMC buys Iomega
- EMC buys Iomegaanother merger with no benefit to consumersI'm so negative on corporate buyout-mergers that anytime I see a company bought, I know that any value in their products will start to vanish. If EMC had any competency to compete in the SOHO markets they would be there already. But...
- Tags: Home networking, Storage, Mergers & Acquisitions, EMC Corp., Linksys Inc., benefit, Iomega Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Program Management Professional (PgMP) Exam Prep Boot Camp
- Instantly save $500 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends April 30, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsGet the information and gain the skills you need to prepare for PMI's new Program Management Professional PgMP credential. The PgMP credential recognizes the...
- Tags: Washington, San Jose, Exam, Toronto, PgMP Credential, Productivity, Thin Clients, Hardware
- Training 2008-04-01
- Mangocity Leads China's Online Travel Services Industry With Avaya Solutions
- The online tourism industry in China is extremely competitive, with many dominant and established players. As a new entrant in 2006, Mangocity's biggest challenge was to differentiate its travel portal from those hosted by the incumbents. The company decided that customer service is of utmost importance and needed a solution...
- Tags: Customer Service, Industry, Avaya Inc., Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Call Centers, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, It Operations, Management
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Zone-H web defacement data shows platforms don't matter
- Zone-H web defacement data shows platforms don't matterSome people will always screamSome people will always scream. They need something to scream about.But you are right that it is the admin and programmer at the end of the day that determines security.There's bound to be a spikewhen people come over...
- Tags: Web site development, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Software Foundation, Zone-H, Web, Web site, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Sun Microsystems Case Study: Meloche
- As the largest direct-response home and auto insurer in Canada, TD Meloche Monnex Group Meloche have to respond quickly to industry changes. Meloche wanted to leverage the digital data available from across the enterprise to significantly improve the level of analytic sophistication. To address this challenge, Meloche turned to trusted...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., SAS Institute, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies 2008-03-12
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