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- Reacting to the Economic Slowdown: Cutting Hidden IT Costs
- IT cost containment is a fine line to walk — even in down times, business demands 24x7 responsiveness from IT, and anything that compromises that can negatively impact business performance. Technology leaders must look for ways to deliver greater value for less money. This begins with aligning with the...
- White papers 2009-06-05
- Developing and Fostering an Agile Organization
- Business agility is one of the key differentiators in today's market — indeed, a company's future-centricity may soon become the sole differentiator as markets and customers adopt new ways of doing business. Constant change is essential to business success, and it begins with people. Business and HR leaders must work...
- White papers 2009-06-05
- Choosing a Vendor: 8 Key Points to Consider When You Need to Outsource
- Even marketing departments at large companies will need to outsource some functions to firms who are more creative and resourceful in specific areas. Most of the time, this is a win-win: you complete projects that your department doesn't have the capacity to do while creating a relationship from...
- White papers 2009-06-05
- Cautious Growth: Tending to Your Core Business
- When CEOs who are content specialists start or take over a company in their field, they can often become so involved in day-to-day operations that they lose sight of the other half of their mission: to formulate long-term strategy. However, the opposite can also occur: a visionary CEO can become...
- White papers 2009-06-05
- Building a Strategic Framework: Helping Employees Understand the Company's Mission and Goals
- Employees provide the fuel for every organization, and the performance of each individual does impact the bottom line, as well as the company's capacity to serve its mission and meet its business objectives. In many companies, however, employees cannot independently assess how their own efforts specifically contribute toward...
- White papers 2009-06-05
- Best of the Best: Acquiring Top Talent for Your Company
- Finding, hiring, and keeping top talent is a challenge for any company. In this ExecBlueprint, our authors discuss why and how to address these issues, as well as some additional challenges specific companies pose such as location. They emphasize using a variety of recruiting options and asking the right...
- White papers 2009-06-05
- The Business Benefits of e-Learning in High-Growth Companies
- High-growth companies use learning and development as a strategic tool to help their organizations grow, beat the competition, and maintain their competitive edge in the marketplace. This research report from Bersin & Associates looks at learning strategies and the use of e-learning technologies in high-growth companies - by focusing on...
- White papers 2008-07-02
- The True Value of Learning
- Yogi Berra, that paragon of word manipulation, exposition and baseball, is often quoted as saying, "The future ain't what it used to be." And, surprisingly, so it is in the world of learning measurement. Training departments cannot be sustained based on how well they do against their training budgets. This...
- White papers 2008-06-27
- Developing a Sustainable IT Compliance Program
- Today's IT compliance environment is becoming increasingly complex, driven by pressures in both the legislative environment and in technology itself. The legislative environment around IT is extremely complicated and changing rapidly. Companies must now respond to legislation at the state, national, and international levels — nvironments which are complex...
- White papers 2008-02-26
- How to Lead and Manage the IT-Literate Workforce
- When it comes to IT knowledge, the literacy of non-technical staff at U.S. companies still varies from near-expert to no-clue. However, now that IT technology is supporting virtually every industry, people who are functionally IT-illiterate are handicapping themselves — and their companies. While levels of IT expertise in the general...
- White papers 2007-12-23
- Leveraging IT Innovation: Releasing Business Potential Through the Creative Use of IT
- When it comes to describing a highly-functional IT department's best attributes, "creativity" may not necessarily come to mind. Yet, innovating new technologies and applying existing ones in new ways does involve a creative process. However, because these products must also serve a strategic need or goal of the company, the...
- White papers 2007-11-17
- The Impact of Work Force Agility on Business Performance
- Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous. Depending on the context, agility can mean different things to different organizational units. But one common thread persists: the accelerating speed of change....
- White papers 2007-11-16
- Extending Reach and Ensuring Effectiveness of Leadership Development: The Role of Technology-Based Learning
- Leadership is an important element of organizational success. So, it is not surprising that many companies look for ways to extend the benefits of leadership development to more employees. Technology-based learning approaches such as online courses, books and video programs can be used effectively to develop employees at all levels....
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Leading a Company to Embrace and Capitalize on Innovation
- Virtually every company that plans to remain viable throughout the ebbs and flows of the business cycle needs to be innovative in a way that's appropriate for its industry. "Innovation," therefore, can apply in many areas: construction methods, advertising techniques, Internet technologies. The whole process of innovating, however,...
- White papers 2007-07-25
- Oracle Case Study: SkillSoft
- After a recent merger with SmartForce, SkillSoft looked for better ways to manage the customer lifecycle for its newly expanded customer base. SkillSoft needed to gain a real-time view of customer information, support cases, and the results of its sales and marketing efforts. SkillSoft successfully - and rapidly - upgraded...
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- Failure in Silicon Valley and the guild of entrepreneurs
- Here is the second part of my conversation with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman. The first part is here: How will the recession affect Silicon Valley? Mr Coleman is optimistic about Silicon Valley's long term prospects but he is pessimistic about the current situation. "These days...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Resource Guide: 11 Qualities of Successful IT Managers
- To succeed as an IT manager, and to advance your career into the executive sphere, you need some very specific traits--11 to be exact. From needs assessment to team building, read this TechRepublic guide for a description of the skills you need to be at the...
- White papers 2008-08-20
- Resource Guide: 10 Tech Skills You Should Develop Over the Next Five Years
- If you want a job where you can train in a particular skill set and then never have to learn anything new, IT isn't the field for you. But if you like to be constantly learning new things and developing new skills, you're in the right business. In the late...
- White papers 2008-08-20
- SaaS invades enterprise software markets
- SaaS invades enterprise software marketsIf Gartner says it...it has to be wrong.SaaS should get Gartner to retract their statement then SaaS may stand a chance.Read CarefullyAdoption isn't strong in traditional enterprise applications.It's strong for content providers that happen to use software to deliver their content over the internet.On numerous occasions...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Top advertisers for education sites: Apollo Group, Classes USA, DeVry
- Nielsen//NetRatings ranked top 20 advertisers buying ads on education sites. The first week of April was covered. Top 20 advertisers for education sites Company Impressions, 000 % of all impressions Apollo Group 357,081 ...
- Blog posts 2005-06-02
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