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- Solutions for HR Bottlenecks in Staffing the IT Department
- IT staffing is a delicate balancing act. Hire too few people and one faces an overburdened IT department that may actually impede growth. Hire too many, however, and they waste money. Their goal, of course, is to make the biggest impact at the lowest cost. Companies that study their staffing...
- Tags: Human Resources, Staffing, Information Technology, Outsourcing Factory, IT Staffing, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-12-03
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- Alex Desktop for Outlook 2.0 beta (Windows)
- ALEX Desktop is an innovative and unique parsing solution that offers recruiters and other staffing professionals the ability to leverage Microsoft Outlook and manage all resumes, contacts, and candidates through their existing contacts folder. Put simply, ALEX runs within Outlook to convert all resume attachments into Outlook Contacts vCards. After...
- Tags: Staffing, Microsoft Windows, Alex Desktop, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-23
- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally
- Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...
- Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Community management: The 'essential' capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 efforts
- Community RoundtableThanks Dion. Community Management is one area our members have identified requires much more attention in the process of successfully deploying a large-scale effort. For a great resource for Community Managers, I recommend Rachel Happe and Jim Storer's Community Roundtable. This member group provides isight on how...
- Tags: successful Enterprise 2.0 effort, Enterprise 2.0 effort, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Shouldn’t services firms have their own ERP?
- I caught up this week with Morris Panner, CEO of OpenAir now part of NetSuite. One aspect of our wide-ranging conversation concerned the continuing evolution of businesses, the economy, etc. towards a greater services orientation. Drawing on that, we discussed how services firms need their own version of ERP. ...
- Tags: Staffing, ERP, Services Firm, Service Firm, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Dell and Perot: What this means
- Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...
- Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- More on Microsoft Project 2010
- The Completeness of the PPM Solution Grows (More from the Project Conference 2009 in Phoenix) As the demonstrations of Project 2010 continue, I noted the following: 1) Microsoft has added a lot of functionality in its Resource Management and Time Entry...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Capability, Collaboration, Content Management, Groupware, Microsoft Project, Team Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Successfactors: Execute, Execute, Execute!
- Successfactors SFSF the Strategic Human Capital Management/people performance software as a service company I last wrote about in June, today expanded their scope to embrace 'Business Execution Software', which is now the strap line under their company logo. As Larry Dignan covered here...
- Tags: Talent, Performance, SuccessFactors Inc., Talent Management, Business Alignment Category, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Plain Talk about Training Payment Options
- You know you need training; the trick today is how to pay for it and work it into your demanding schedule. Staffing and budgets are flat or declining, but the IT workload is rising. Yet even with today's lean budgets, many IT professionals are getting the valuable training they...
- Tags: Global Knowledge, Human Resources, Training, Training And Certification, Workforce Management
- White papers 2009-09-01
- MinuteManPlus 7.4.20 (Windows)
- MinuteManPlus is an easy-to-use program to track multiple projects. It combines high-level cross-project overview capability with detailed critical path project management of schedules, staffing, and expenditures. If you only need to keep track of start/end dates and staffing, just use the Project Summary view. For those projects requiring details, you...
- Tags: Project, Staffing, Microsoft Windows, MinuteMan Systems, MinuteManPlus
- Software downloads 2009-08-26
- How Does the State of Spam Affect Your Small Business?
- Spammers use popular events to cover their tracks?. The recent death of Michael Jackson and its subsequent public interest show that spammers are willing to use any notable event as a cover to distribute their messages. Symantec State of Spam report shows that 90 percent of all email coming into...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Spammer, Small Business, Security
- Webcasts 2009-08-19
- BriefingsDirect analysts debate the 'imminent death' of enterprise IT as cloud models ascend
- who's going to maintain the workstationsyeah it's a cloud system, but the hardware at the desk still needs to be maintained. Waiting for your 3rd party IT people could waste valuable time in the office.RE: BriefingsDirect analysts debate the 'imminent death' of enterprise IT as cloud models ascendI think...
- Tags: Thin clients, cloud computing, thin client, imminent death, enterprise-IT, Briefingsdirect
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Microsoft sheds 2,000-employee ad agency in $530 million deal
- I think they mention Word just as an exampleI wouldn't cite Word as a propietary format that doesn't allow being searched - My take is that, even though it is propietary, it is well known and can be read by 3rd parties... The issue seems that in the future programs...
- Tags: Workforce management, advertisement, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, job
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Secure Information and Manage Endpoints With 24x7 Monitoring and Management
- Due to the growing threats and the challenge presented by limited resources, there is an increasing desire to partner with a service provider for the deployment and management of endpoint protection solutions. In fact, a recent Managed Security in the Enterprise report stated a majority (61 percent) of those surveyed...
- Tags: Managed Security, Symantec Corp., Monitoring, Manage Inc., Security
- Webcasts 2009-07-28
- Server 2008...Any caveats?
- Summer is update time, as every school IT person knows. These couple of months are when we get as much done as humanly possible when major updates and upgrades won't affect students. While my list of projects is insurmountably long, one thing that I absolutely must do is...
- Tags: Media, Terminal Services, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Teams in the (Troubled) Cloud
- Not all team members are created equal I’ve had some really interesting briefings/meetings lately. If you want to understand where software executives, industry leaders, etc. are going/thinking, then read on. Let’s begin with a conversation I had with Maynard Webb....
- Tags: Team, Team Member, Worker, Maynard, Loyalty, Team Management, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- A CIO's take on the home PC support dilemma
- This is a guest post by TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, CIO of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. You can find more posts like this in TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. This week, Bill Detwiler posed the following question in a poll: Should corporate help desks support home PCs? The responses...
- Tags: Home PC, Employee, PC, Computer, Productivity, Help Desk, It Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]
- Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]Project management as an enablerYou make the case that project management inhibits IT strategic business value. However, each tips you present to stop viewing IT in project-related terms are clearly articulated in the Project Management Institute's PMI project process rigor for anyone's Project...
- Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Purchasing & Procurement, Quality, video, information technology, project management, PMI, risk management plan
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XP
- Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XPPenny wise, pound foolish.XP is unsecurable. Enterprise AV, all the tools, etc, it is fundamentally broken. All these enterprises deal with constant and unrelenting security threats. It really has no place...
- Tags: Operating systems, survey, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
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