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Relationship Management for Senior IT Executives
by WatchIT
IT leaders today have the opportunity, authority, and responsibility to engage business partners in a genuine business relationship. Therefore, relationship management is a dominant responsibility of a senior IT manager. In this program, Gig Graham of WatchIT, discusses how to improve the working relationship between IT and business managers. He presents ideas on how IT leaders can negotiate their shared needs, resolve their unique needs, communicate regularly, and survive when services and plans have to be adjusted for economic, political, and technical reasons. ...
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Protecting Personal Information
by WatchIT
Protecting the personal information of customers, employees and business partners is becoming an increasingly challenging task for IT. Personal information that falls into the wrong hands can lead to identity theft, fraud and costly litigation for companies. CIOs and IT managers must take a proactive approach to protect personal information across the enterprise. In this report Peter Vogel an attorney and technology expert from the firm of Gardere, Wynne Sewell LLP, offers clear insight into current and emerging issues regarding the protection of personal information. ...
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Project Management Roles and Responsibilities
by WatchIT
Bob Jones, Managing Director of Answerthink's Program Management consulting practice, offers an in-depth look at the roles and responsibilities required to manage IT projects successfully. In an interview, Dan Hill, Vice President, Projects and Solutions Delivery for Exelon Business Services Company, talks about his experiences managing projects for one of the nation's largest electric utility companies. Jones discusses the competencies and processes required to be an effective project manager. He also highlights enabling tools and technologies, and outlines attributes of one successful and one unsuccessful project via two real-world case studies. ...
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Outsource Governance Metrics: We're Lost, But We're Making Good Time
by WatchIT
Doug Brindley of Software Productivity Research, explains the key principles for success in application development and maintenance governance in outsourced projects. He also discusses the relative strengths and weaknesses of software metrics in outsource governance. In an interview, noted software metrics guru Capers Jones, founder and Chief Scientist Emeritus of SPR, shares some of his experiences in studying outsource relationships gone bad. Brindley begins the program by explaining the five key principles for success in using metrics in outsource governance. He continues by describing the ten best technical practices for outsourced organizations. Brindley concludes with a detailed, seven-point checklist for outsourcers and their clients as they contemplate their future relationships. ...
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Optimizing IT to Meet Business Objectives
by WatchIT
How can companies ensure that IT services are directed and optimized to implement critical business objectives? Wendell Jones of Cutter Consortium helps IT managers cope with what has become one of the most difficult -- yet exciting -- jobs in any organization. The program describes techniques that will help IT managers think and communicate like business executives, build relationships with key stakeholders, manage suppliers and providers, achieve two-way alignment between IT and business, anticipate and adapt to changing business requirements, and recruit, develop and retain quality staff. ...
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Offshore Development: Why Projects Fail and How to Make Them Succeed
by WatchIT
Peter Harrison, CEO of Induslogic, discusses the inherent risks involved in offshore development projects. He examines why these projects often fail, tells how to keep them on track, and explores reasons behind this megatrend. In an interview, Gene Bedell, CEO of Engenia Incorporated and a veteran of offshore development, describes his experiences with outsourcing, and looks at the key reasons outsourcing often falls short of an organization's objectives. Bedell also explains how to pick an outsourcing firm, specifies the benefits of outsourcing (besides the financial ones), and outlines the problems companies have in setting unrealistic expectations. Harrison begins with a review of recent trends in offshore development, and then details his top ten reasons why offshore development fails, including wrong partners, projects, and teams, as well as mismatched infrastructures and the all-important ‘human factor.' Next, he provides specific guidelines for success, such as investing in knowledge transfer, implementing standard processes, and systematic communication. Finally, Harrison delves into the impact of outsourcing on the IT department. ...
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Modern Information Systems - IT Infrastructure: Part 2
by WatchIT
Continuing the discussion begun in Part 1 of this two-part program, technology writer and consultant Roger Grannis clearly explains and simplifies the inner working of modern information systems, enabling the business person to recognize the issues, ask the right questions, and have confidence in tackling IT-related problems. The purpose of the program is to make it easier to understand the economics of computing and communications and lay the foundation for understanding enterprise resource planning (ERP), which keeps track of orders, inventory, and work flow; banking applications that keep track of deposits, reserves, loans, and credit; and supply chain applications that connect the ERP systems of one enterprise with the equivalent systems of another. In Part 2, Grannis discusses the last four of seven models used to describe aspects of an organization's business functions and processes, and details the architecture of the IT infrastructure. ...
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Modern Information Systems - IT Infrastructure: Part 1
by WatchIT
Today's modern information systems are difficult for the general business person to understand because the business work is largely managed inside a 'black box.' In this program, technology writer and consultant Roger Grannis clearly explains and simplifies the inner working of modern information systems, enabling the business person to recognize the issues, ask the right questions, and have confidence in tackling IT-related problems. The purpose of the program is to make it easier to understand the economics of computing and communications and lay the foundation for understanding enterprise resource planning (ERP), which keeps track of orders, inventory, and work flow; banking applications that keep track of deposits, reserves, loans, and credit; and supply chain applications that connect the ERP systems of one enterprise with the equivalent systems of another. In Part 1 of a two-part program, Grannis explains the concept of the Information Framework, and discusses the first three of seven models used to describe aspects of an organization's business functions and processes. ...
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MEMS: Making Technology Think Small
by WatchIT
Roger Grace, president of Roger Grace Associates, a San Francisco-based marketing consulting firm specializing in high technology, and Dr. Ken Wise, a leading MEMS researcher at the University of Michigan, discuss MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) - a science of huge potential dealing with the smallest of subjects. MEMS are microscopic machines and components such as valves, pumps, switches, sensors and actuators. An outgrowth of the same technological revolution that gave us integrated circuits, or ICs, MEMS carries the IC concept to the next level. This program explains the potential future applications for MEMS, as well as the current state of standards in the industry - and why standardization is so important to the future of MEMS development. It also looks at how devices that use MEMS technology will help IT become more efficient and possibly make your company more profitable. ...
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Measuring Corporate Information Productivity
by WatchIT
Paul Strassmann, publisher and CEO of The Information Economics Press, New Canaan, Conn., and author of seven books on information economics, provides formulas for calculating the productivity of IT investments. Strassmann first defines productivity. He then discusses the economics of information management, defines information productivity and describes how to increase it. Strassmann also provides a case study from the public sector. According to Strassmann, information productivity rather than capital productivity is the choice measure for the CIO. He also stresses that IT is effective only if information productivity improves. ...
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