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Change the Culture, Save the Organization: The Principal Financial Group Revitalized Its Culture by Adopting a Project Management Approach

Balancing change with tradition proved to be an essential part of the Principal Financial Group's forward-looking strategy. The Principal needed to transition from its ad hoc approach to a more structured project management environment that included standard methodology, resource evaluation, project planning, collaboration, and project review and analysis. After compiling...

Tags: Principal Financial Group, Primavera Systems Inc., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

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How Principal Financial Group Achieved Operational Excellence in IT Service Management

This webcast explains how principal financial group achieved operational excellence in IT service management.

Tags: Principal Financial Group, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management

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HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations

LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...

Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Live Webcast: Calculated Risk: Inside the Billion-Dollar 'Gut' of Goldman Sachs

While competitors were still betting big on mortgage-backed securities, Goldman Sachs began betting against such derivatives at the start of 2007, even though this was still the fastest-growing business on Wall Street. While it didn't escape the credit crisis without recording a loss in the last quarter of 2008 and...

Tags: Business Structures, Charles Ellis, Ellis, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Personal Finance, Robert Arvanitis, Strategy, Webcast

Webcasts 2009-02-11

Uncalculated Risk: The Fall Of Housing Prices. What Goldman Saw.

This is the U.S. Census Bureau's graphing of housing values from 1940-2000. Nationally, housing prices march upward for six uninterrupted decades. This kept up for another six years. But as the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, below, shows housing prices --...

Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Security, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Managing Spend on Information Security and Audit for Better Results

Every activity has some risk associated with it, including the use of IT. However, the principal business and financial risks from the use of IT differ by size of company. Appropriately managing the principal business risks and reducing overspending depend on specific organizational practices, that if not implemented will result...

Tags: Information Security, Audit, Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2009-02-01

VMware's R&D chief quits after 9 months

VMware said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development has resigned after nine months on the job. In a terse statement, VMware said that Richard Sarwal quit to go back to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware in December 2007. VMware CEO Paul...

Tags: Stock Option, Security, Amount, R&D, Stock, Employment, Agreement, VMware Inc., Company, RSU, Control, Change, Cause, Person, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Bizarre merger of the day: United Online buys FTD Group

United Online has one helluva Internet portfolio: Classmates.com, MyPoints, NetZero, Juno and now FTD, a florist. If you're looking for synergy you won't find it here. The company announced Wednesday that it will acquire FTD for $800 million Techmeme. The moving parts involved in that sum are...

Tags: Merger, United Online Inc., FTD, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Brief: 4

This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals 2.1 Processes and ground rules Three kinds of IT proposals come to the board for...

Tags: Project, Information Technology, Board, Benefit, Bottom Line, Decision, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Textbook costs have to go

Textbook costs have to goI've alwasy wondered why a group . . .of Universities haven't gotten together to produce some sort of on-line database, ala Wikipedia, to do this very thing. They could restrict input to accredited organizations, with the documents subject to review by the member groups before...

Tags: E-books, textbook publisher, Books, textbook

Discussion threads 2008-01-19

SOA Insights analysts view IBM's information umbrella, explore SAP's Business Objects grab and define 'Guerrilla SOA'

Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 26, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts and experts. In this episode, our group examines the relationship and tension...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Business Objects, SAP AG, SOA, IBM Corp., WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-26

A thought about buying from Sun

A thought about buying from SunIf the middle is a problem....... then eliminate it. A few high profile sackings will light a fire under those remaining. Hire a top sales manager and replace half-a-dozen middle managers with him/her.Stir things up. It does not matter whether the decisions are good or...

Tags: Servers, hardware, Middle Management, sales, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-01

Jobs: Teacher unions prevents schools from excellence

Jobs: Teacher unions prevents schools from excellenceSteve JobsI have bought my last Apple Computer. My husband and I are teachers. I am the CEO of my classroom. I am not given the option of who I get to "employ" either. Yet I am expected to turn...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Financial accounting, Public Schools, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, job

Discussion threads 2007-02-19

BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, vol. 3: Gardner, Garone, Ward-Dutton and Pendleton on SOA, open source, and making the business case for SOA

Read a transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, a weekly discussion and dissection of Service Oriented Architecture SOA and related news and events with a panel of independent IT industry analysts and guests. Yours truly, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, is your host...

Tags: Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Application Lifecycle Management, Podcasts, Developer Tools, Sun Microsystems, Software Development, Apple, HP, SaaS, Enterprise Java, SOA, SOA Governance

Blog posts 2006-11-05

TradeKing CEO talks 'The Real Deal': Web 2.0 meets online trading, exclusive interview

Donato A. Montanaro, Jr., TradeKing’s founder and CEO, is one of the true electronic brokerage pioneers. He worked in the nascent industry back in 1992 when, he recalls, “online trading meant connecting to a broker through CompuServe with a 1200-baud dial-up modem.”Montanaro was the founder and President of SureTrade, launched...

Tags: online trading, TradeKing

Blog posts 2006-09-20

Donated computers - the good, the bad, and the ugly

With an annual operating budget so small that I can calculate it on the back of a napkin around smudges of school pizza sauce and chocolate pudding, I have to rely on donated computing equipment to keep my labs and classroom computers running. Many public schools, non-profits, and small...

Tags: computer

Blog posts 2006-03-27

Best Practice Risk Management and Basel II Compliance

The underlying motive behind the Basel II proposals is to encourage banks to progress along a path of increasing sophistication in respect of risk management, controlling all risks across all businesses in a group. Banks must undertake many different projects in order to move forward in a coherent manner towards...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Best Practice, Basel II, Financial Services

White papers 2005-11-01

Legality of adware distribution with P2P

After I blogged last week about Direct Revenue's new deal with KaZaA to distribute their adware, I received an email from a representative of another adware company asking what I thought about the legality of the arrangement. Adware bundling with peer to peer file sharing applications is nothing new....

Tags: adware, Kazaa

Blog posts 2005-10-14

Could Apple loss be IBM's gain?

Could Apple loss be IBM's gain?Question:Will Intel have to devote a great deal of expense to create chips for Apple?If this is true for IBM:An order for Mac chips falls somewhere between the two. Extensive development is needed for one customer, but is production really high enough to beat Moore's...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, IBM Corp., Apple Inc., chip

Discussion threads 2005-06-09

The Principal Increases Productivity and Marketing Effectiveness by Migrating to an Informatica Solution

The Principal Financial Group The Principal is a leader in offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services, including retirement and investment services, life and health insurance and banking through its diverse family of financial services companies. The company wanted to build a scalable...

Tags: Marketing, Informatica, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance

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