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Written by Bob Broda
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Thursday, 13 August 2009 00:00 |
 Many IT organizations continue to struggle with strategy alignment and demonstrating the value of IT to the business. Recently a group of IT Executives discussed this topic and concluded there was no silver bullet when it comes to IT Governance, or is there?
IT Governance can be defined as the guiding principles for directors on how to ensure the use of IT is effective, efficient and acceptable. Robert McIsaac, Group Vice President & Chief Information Officer First Citizens Bank simplified it when he indicated “effective IT Governance is about using the right resources on the right problem in the right amounts at the right time”.
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Written by Hagai Bar-El
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Monday, 10 August 2009 00:00 |
 It is very common among security people to take privacy issues seriously. When we hear that a particular service collects personal data on us, we get extremely anxious. We will not use services that collect personal data that are not necessary to render the service. Sometimes we will forgo using a useful service, just because it requires that we feed in personal data, or because we do not like the wording of the privacy policy, of its lack of...
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Written by Jack Milunsky
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 00:00 |
 Lean offers such practical advice on what to look for in order to make the process better. I think just knowing about these aspects of lean will help you day to day, help you make better decisions, make you a more effective player on a software development team.
Last week I covered the first manufacturing waste In- Process Inventory corresponding to partially done work in software development.
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Written by Terrie S. DaSilva
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Monday, 03 August 2009 00:00 |
 The sale of a project is completed. Or is it? In today’s marketplace it is critical to have engagement management role to manage the expectations of all concerned. While extremely critical, it is not only the customer that an organization must consider. The quality of customer satisfaction, legal exposure to all organizations, and future business is relevant to having an engaged manager.
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Written by TM Team
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 00:00 |
It's full-speed-ahead for TechForum's 2009 Best Practice Awards! Applications for our four IT- related categories are now posted online, and can be accessed at http://www.techforum.com/nominationforms.html.
Deadline is Friday, August 14th 2009.
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Written by Gijs Houtzagers
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 00:00 |
The recent sourcing of HR by Unilever to Accenture and by Delta Lloyd to ARINSO shows that now in fact HR sourcing in the Netherlands is happening. Although forms of sourcing occurred they were mostly focused on HR transactions, functions often closely related to personnel administration and payroll and not HR processes. A variety of authors predicted this trend. For instance Ulrich tells us that HR only can survive if the role switches from confidential agent and administrative expert to strategist and change manager
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Written by Rob Enderle
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Monday, 27 July 2009 00:00 |
Enterprise Windows vs. Linux vs. UNIX Server Platforms: AIX on Top Followed by the MacOS?!?
Laura DiDio of ITIC just completed an in depth survey on the reliability of Linux, Windows Server, and UNIX and to the surprise of most of us AIX came out on top with a massive lead even though UNIX servers generally were carrying, according to Laura, a much higher load.
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