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SCCM (widget): The Society of Critical Care Medicine SCCM is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care. SCCM widget allows you to receive SCCM RSS news to your desktop, search SCCM Web sites, and links to SCCM home page, MySCCM, LearnICU, MyICUCare, eCommunity,...; Tags: Excellence, Consistency, Desktops, Hardware; Software downloads 2007-04-03
Centers of excellence: Optimize Your Business and IT Value: Download this SAP white paper to read about the many direct benefits you can derive from implementing certified centers of excellence COEs in your organization. The paper presents the results of a study by the Americas' SAP Users' Group ASUG, which identified three main factors that inspire companies to institute...; Tags: Excellence, Information Technology, SAP AG, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management; White papers 2006-11-01
Images: Art of the video game: L.A. exhibition showcases excellence in video game art.; Tags: Games, video game, exhibition, excellence, game, video, Los Angeles; Image galleries 2006-05-15
Successfully Integrating Acquisitions While Establishing a Financial and Operational Platform for Achieving excellence: This webcast discusses about successfully integrating acquisitions while establishing a financial and operational platform for achieving excellence.; Tags: Acquisition, Excellence, Financial, SAP AG, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations; Webcasts
MacArthur High School: Traditions of excellence: MacArthur High School takes pride in their traditions of excellence. The Cardinals have impressive win streaks in football, cross country, and now, an impressive winning streak using technology to improve learning excellence. MacArthur High places student learning first and has implemented a one-to-one computing program to increase student achievement and...; Tags: Excellence, MacArthur High School, Internet, Productivity, Groupware, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; Case studies

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10 reasons for IT failure: Readers of this blog know IT initiatives generally fail for business, organizational, or cultural reasons. Sure, technology screw-ups occur all the time, but that's one of the realities to be managed. Success or failure ultimately depends on how project leadership manages the full range of technical-...; Tags: Project, Information Technology, IT Leadership, Complex Project, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Apple seeking engineers with the right touch: A sign that multi-touch input could be moving across Apple's product lines are its many job postings for touch engineers and managers. From my search of Apple's Job Opportunities site, I could see a growing team to handle the company's touch technology. There were postings for hardware...; Tags: Job, Team, Apple Inc., Hardware, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Zogis GeForce 9800 GTX: Nvidia's new GeForce 9800 GTX 3D graphics chip is the spiritual successor to the GeForce 8800 GTX. That latter chip has been the PC gamers' watermark for excellence since it came out at the end of 2006. The difference this time around is while the 8800 GTX debuted with a...; Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Nvidia GeForce, GeForce 9800, chip, card; Product reviews 2008-04-09
Heathrow T5 failure: What really happened: Heathrow T5 failure: What really happenedTony BlairThis is typical of modern Britain. All show. All glitz. 100% image and 0% substance. This is the legacy of Tony who turned Britain from a country proud of its merit into one only concerned with the next news story and to hell with...; Tags: Strategy, Heathrow T5; Discussion threads 2008-04-08
Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting: Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting*New* news of *new* shocking meetings...... at http://www.groklaw.net/ Groklaw.LOL...Anyone that uses Groklaw as a source for any kind of information should probably know that Groklaw is the gutter tabloid of the internet.There is absolutely nothing unbiased about that sorry part of the internet.Seriously, someone thought...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OOXML, Details Emerge, Groklaw; Discussion threads 2008-03-31
SOA Centers of excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change: When first entertaining the notion of a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, most information technology IT professionals and business leaders rightly imagine the many benefits that their organizations will see in improved customer interaction, greater business agility, efficient asset reuse, and flexible growth options. Indeed, SOA is one of the bright lights...; Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2008-03-21
Brainshare: Novell is better than its marketing: I've been in Salt Lake City at Novell's Brainshare. As in years past, Novell presented an enthusiastic rendition of its messages, interesting demonstrations and even labs allowing folks to actually use the newest editions of the company's products. It's an event worth attending if you're interested in Novell's technology. ...; Tags: Novell Inc., Marketing Research, Strategy, Open Source, Marketing, Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-03-19
News still hasn't seen the money from open source: The Pew Charitable Trusts, founded by a mid-century Republican oilman, issued its second annual report on the medium since taking over Columbia's Project for Excellence in Journalism in 2006. The best word to describe the report is poverty. Few outlets have made money online, and the few which...; Tags: Google Inc., Problem, Industry, Money, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Green thinking is well established. Green brands, not so much: Oh goody, I'm home at my computer on a Saturday night (yes, sad). But, bonanza, I've just hit the jackpot: Some green tech stats for you to contemplate with your Sunday morning coffee! Two sources for you. The first is the third EcoPinion survey from EcoAlign,...; Tags: Brand, Green Technology, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-03-15
Renaissance Art Screensaver 575 paintings (exe): Art of the Renaissance Screensaver--575 paintings, over 100 artists, spanning over 400 years. The Renaissance was a spark of brilliant creativity, ingenuity, and excellence in the Arts and Sciences, which grew to inspire the globe. Works by Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Botticelli, Raphael, Ghirlandaio, Titian, Veronese, Giotto, Mantegna, Tintoretto, Reni, Bronzino,...; Tags: Screensaver, Images, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2008-03-11
Agile is cool!: Holy cow, look at the principles underlying agile software development. Be still, my beating heart, because this stuff is great: Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software Working software is delivered frequently weeks rather than months Working...; Tags: Software, Agile, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-03-10
'Requirements Critic' checks documents for problems: Requirements Critic ("RC") is a joint project out of our Silicon Valley and Bangalore labs (time difference: An almost perfect 11.5 hours) that's looking for ways to aid the process of requirements development. Its current prototype is a Microsoft Word plug-in that acts sort of like a grammar checker-except it's...; Tags: Requirement, Requirements Critic, Real Estate, Productivity, Business Operations, Ed Gottsman; Blog posts 2008-03-10
Microsoft caves: 'Super-standards' mode to become IE 8 default: Microsoft caves: 'Super-standards' mode to become IE 8 defaultOpera's complaint only "helped convince"?I don't know about you, but the threat of another $1 billion dollar fine from the EU would "help convince" me of just about anything.I think MS did the right thingI'm sure there are a lot of people...; Tags: Web browsers, ABMers, Microsoft Corp., IE 8 default, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, cave, IE8, Opera Software; Discussion threads 2008-03-03
"Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?: "Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?What went wrong was simple....... MS proved once again that they are a marketing company and not a technology company. Marketing takes precedence. It doesn't matter if the customer gets scr3wed because they're a monoply and the customer's only purpose is to fill the...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), No_Ax, marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Vista Capable; Discussion threads 2008-02-28
Announcing Symantec Backup Exec 12 - New Levels of Data Protection and Enhanced Best-in-Class Features!: Symantec Backup Exec has been delivering leading Windows data protection for over two decades. The latest release of Symantec Backup Exec 12 builds on Symantec's engineering excellence, providing companies with optimized backup and recovery for Microsoft Windows Server 2008, enhanced granular recovery of Microsoft applications, continuous data protection and new...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Symantec Backup Exec, Security; Webcasts 2008-02-26