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Connect People, Process, and Information With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides integrated enterprise-class capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by connecting people, processes, and information across boundaries. Office SharePoint Server 2007 capabilities can help improve organizational effectiveness by connecting people, processes, and information. Enhanced features and components in Office SharePoint Server 2007 provide numerous ways...

Tags: microsoft corp., organizational effectiveness, office sharepoint server 2007, microsoft office, office suites, software

White papers

Building Company Drives Organizational Excellence With Scorecard Solution

Annually ranked in the top five construction firms, Skanska USA Building always seeks new ways to improve its organizational effectiveness. After consolidating its nationwide building companies in 2003, the organization was faced with the challenge of aligning its managers to a consistent set of performance goals. The senior management team...

Tags: performance, organizational effectiveness, performance management, human resources, workforce management

Case studies

Additional Resources

Six steps to an effective data governance program

As data governance becomes a key benchmark of a company's responsibility to enhance and protect data, here are six simple steps that start to develop a program based on individual needs. In the past few years, dozens of high-profile incidents involving data mismanagement have gained international attention. Caught off...

Tags: data, organization, corporate governance, tools & techniques, pricing, databases, business operations, corporate law, management, marketing, enterprise software, software, data management, data governance, mismanagement, steve alder, ibm, special to zdnet

News items 2008-08-06

Linuxworld/NGDC San Francisco

As I walked the show floor at LinuxWorld/Next Generation Datacenter Conference in San Francisco, I saw evidence of a show in transistion. This reminds me of UNIX shows I attended in the early 1980s. As with UNIX, Linux has become a common part of organizational datacenters and IT staff members...

Tags: vp, conference, data centers, unix, linux, operating systems, corporate governance, virtualization, storage, hardware, data management, software, business operations, corporate law, dan kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Holy cow, Batman, it's a Platinum-level green data center!

Ever heard of Advanced Data Centers out of San Francisco? Well, you're about to, since the corporate hosting services company apparently is the first company to earn a Platinum Pre-Certification for a data center under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program for rating...

Tags: data center, bob seese, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, heather clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Who's responsible?

Who's responsible?Murph finds a kindred spiritCongratulations. You found a quote with a Murph-style error in logic.Here's the situation: People eat enough bread to satisfy their need for calories, then use their remaining food money on meat. Less effective, more enjoyable.The price of bread goes up. The...

Tags: anton, bread, murph, meat

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?

Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?Theoretically, Murph should be rightLinux should be the cheaper. That is simply based on product cost. It's hard to compete with free. Google exemplifies the best use of Linux."Theoretically", if all OSs had equal pools of equally smart and well...

Tags: linux, branding, operating systems, strategy, giffen, operating system, brand, wintel

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Active Directory Reports (msi)

Active Directory Reports LDAP Auditing Tool Supports Printing and Exporting. Using crystal reports, we allow for dynamically configurable reporting on Windows Active Directory objects for NT, 2000, 2003 and 2008 servers. Imagine being able to see true last logon information for your users. We help you standardize your ability to...

Tags: maxpowersoft, microsoft windows active directory, directory services, ldap, enterprise software, software

Software downloads 2008-08-01

IT justice: Weighing the scales on failure

IT justice: Weighing the scales on failureReally?Doesn't some portion of these problems enter in to every IT project?Kill or cure?The three criteria for killing a project are Flawed approvals, Changing needs, and Poor execution.Projects too essential to kill will have to be cured, no?!Also, if the project approval process was...

Tags: information technology

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet

Guest editorial by Oliver Day In June 2008, StopBadware published a report with statistics (.pdf) based on our sample of infected website data from Google. In those statistics we noted that over half of the infections came from addresses originating in China. We've received some attention for...

Tags: china, infection, malware, security, ryan naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-29

I need help: a website strategy and design issue

I need help: a website strategy and design issueResolutions, when achieved, feed marketing1. Do you seriously think that you're going to run out of issues needing resolution through consensus building and action? I didn't realize that Canada was so close to perfect. Given both U.S. presidential candidates, I may have...

Tags: web site development, microsoft windows, channel management, web technology, website strategy, need help, web, web 2.0, web site

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Software that Makes Your Company More Entrepenuerial

A class of social software is helping companies become more entrepreneurial and none a moment too soon. In a survey of 300 business executives, Interminds LLC, a management consultancy, found that nearly three quarters (71 percent) of business executives indicated that...

Tags: innovation, software, entrepreneurial, intermind corp., business executive, entrepreneurship, branding, management, marketing, dave greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Amazon's S3 post-mortem demonstrates maturity

Amazon web services experienced a substantial service outage on July 20, disrupting customers across the web. Their post-mortem demonstrates an unusual level of organizational maturity for an Enterprise 2.0 company. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: system state, s3 inc., team, amazon.com inc., failure, team management, management, michael krigsman

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: talent, collaboration, ceo, hcl, workforce management, human resources, oliver marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality

DTrace and the Linux bunker mentalityBecause it is the Linux way Paul1) Take something good and copy it badly.2) Never, ever listen to anyone offering advice regarding usability [i]"Linux ain't no Fisher Price OS"[/i] etc.3) Spend more time arguing on the mailing lists, than actually developing and bug-testing.RE: DTrace and...

Tags: open source, operating systems, unix, dtrace, sco group inc., linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?

An organizational structure is all about command and control of subunits - manufacturing, engineering, sales, whatever. Within each such sub-unit IT use will have co-evolved with what they do, and be correspondingly difficult and dangerous to change. The system you use to tie it all together tends, however, to be...

Tags: wal-mart stores inc., information technology, competitive advantage, strategy, manufacturing, management, paul murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-21

SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges

Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of  the...

Tags: customer, sap ag, mittelstand, gunther rheinhart, auto-renew, software as a service (saas), workforce management, outsourcing, emerging technologies, human resources, it operations, business operations, outsourcing & subcontracting, dennis howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Live Webcast: Effective Customer Experience Management

Companies of all sizes are increasingly more concerned about the overall effectiveness of their online business. Much can be learned from the traditional Web analytics, which are certainly very important, but is it enough to simply measure traffic? What people click, where they linger and how they ultimately...

Tags: webcast, customer experience, effective customer experience management

Webcasts 2008-07-17

EyeSpy (exe)

EyeSpy is a revolutionary approach to personal online security. Unlike traditional Internet security packages, EyeSpy has the ability to monitor and visualize all Internet traffic in a simple and intuitive manner. Any malware which attempts to steal and retransmit your personal information can be spotted in a matter of seconds...

Tags: endpoint, revealed systems, eyespy, internet, productivity, security

Software downloads 2008-07-17

In the information age, IT innovation means everything

In the information age, IT innovation means everythingInteresting.I think many IT failures are due to misundersyanding the company's business model. The nuances if you will. This is another reason to develop internally. To take it one step further. There are many good IT personnel that only understand IT. They don't...

Tags: strategy, leadership, operating systems, information technology, innovation, linux, unix, blog

Discussion threads 2008-07-14