| You Are Not Your Vendor |
| It’s too risky to commit to any technology platform, whether it’s Windows or BlackBerrys. Keeping your business competitive requires flexibility.
07/15/2010
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| Mission Impossible: Judging TCO of Enterprise Software Upgrades |
| Irregular timing. Business disruption. Endless "options." These are just three reasons that enterprise application upgrades remain a "wild card" business scenario for companies, says Forrester's Paul Hamerman--so you'd better understand the key issues.
06/30/2010
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| How IT Sourcing Group Can Win Influence with Business |
| Forrester's survey of IT buyers reveals that most want to have more influence earlier in the software selection process, but don't know how to make that happen. Here's advice on how to change the business perception of what IT can deliver in this process.
06/24/2010
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| 8 Ways to Keep Your Best Workers on Board |
| The organizations honored as Best Places to Work are vastly different in many ways, but they tend to share an ability to keep their most productive people on board. While there's never a good time to neglect retention, doing so now may prove to be especially costly. With economic conditions beginning to improve, some organizations are looking to increase staffing levels. And as job opportunities proliferate, IT professionals will be more likely to consider moving to a new employer. Businesses that don't address this looming challenge will find themselves at a competitive disadvantage.
06/20/2010
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| Seize the Chance to Build a Better Workplace |
| The Great Recession left in its wake scores of vastly overworked employees with severely reduced benefits and dramatically decreased career opportunities. But while rebuilding will require plenty of hard work, there's also a silver lining.
06/20/2010
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| Starbucks CIO Brewing Up Much More than Free Wi-Fi |
| CIO Stephen Gillett is no plain old IT order-taker. He's leading a new group developing even more in-store tech offerings--and delivering what CEOs want most from CIOs: strategic innovation.
06/14/2010
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| One Company's Switch from BlackBerry to iPhone: New OS is Key |
| Apple's upcoming mobile OS offers a lot for enterprises, but adoption takes time. Here's a look inside Varian Medical's ongoing efforts to deploy iPhones around the world.
06/09/2010
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| When Vendor Research Collides: Whom to Believe? |
| SAP's Solution Manager product is either an overly complex beast or an IT staffing savior with amazing ROI. The answer depends on whose research you trust.
06/02/2010
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| Going Global? Check Your Software for Unicode Characters |
| Ensuring business systems support Unicode characters can ease entry for U.S. companies into global markets.
05/02/2010
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| Social Media Safety: Acceptable-Use Policies Are Critical |
| Allowing access to social networking sites can open businesses up to a plethora of security risks. The key to success, Forrester Research says, is a strong acceptable use policy. Here's how to craft one.
04/07/2010
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| 5 Hot IT Topics: 5 Must-Read Books |
| Staying on top of all the new innovations, strategies and directions in today's IT world can be mindboggling. That's where a great IT library can help, filled with the latest and greatest guidebooks on all the hot IT topics you need to put your arms around in your company's constantly morphing technology environment.
03/31/2010
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| CIOs are Gearing Up for Greater Success |
| Using smart investment and leveraging enterprise decisions, CIOs are helping position their companies to come out of the downturn at full speed
02/22/2010
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| Recession Lessons from Whirlpool CIO |
| Kevin Summers says the big lesson of the recession is a focus on organization fundamentals
12/17/2009
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| Develop Your External Leadership Skills |
| Download this collection of essays from CIO Executive Council members on understanding and developing the external-facing leadership competencies of "customer focus," "commercial orientation" and "market knowledge."
12/17/2009
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| 2010 State of the CIO: Today's Focus for IT Departments - Business Opportunities |
| The recession has deepened CIO understanding of and commitment to business beyond IT. It's not just about installing BI tools or upgrading ERP, but about working side by side with other company leaders to build IT into new goods and services.
12/16/2009
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