Geoffrey Moore addresses how scrimping on IT is “dumber than dirt” how can you use this intelligence to your advantage?
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Far more companies plan to give business units more control, and more spending will be through nontraditional licensing models, survey for Software 2007 Conference suggests.
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Companies with the most effective and efficient IT organizations spend about 7% more on IT than median-performing companies, according to a new report from advisory and consulting firm Hackett Group. This is GREAT information for technology sales reps. Face it, there ain't no easy way to "cut corners" on technology and still expect to be competitive.
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A recent poll of HR Executives conducted by Human Resource Executive magazine was quite revealing. Why is this important to sales people?
Budgets will grow by 12.3 percent next year, thanks to factors like healthy IT spending, enhanced functionality, and continued interest from SMBs and midmarket companies.
Our reliance on standarized systems has come with a cost: We're often unable to modify these processes.
"The pressure on the CIO to keep it all running is immense," said GM CIO Ralph Szygenda. "We are no longer automating. We are trying to sustain everything. It used to be that if something went wrong, you could fix it manually. Not any more. Manual intervention is gone."
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When business intelligence software made its debut in the early 1990s, its promise was simple: Insightful data on sales, inventory and many other facets of the organization would help executives make better business decisions. And better business decisions in turn would yield cost savings, sales increases or productivity gains.
That's a big promise. So where are we now? For this special report, we set out to find stellar examples of better business decisions through BI. We're calling them "BI home runs." In the following pages, you'll read about 15 organizations that are relying on BI data to make essential decisions.
A majority of companies are buying more sophisticated supply chain technology and improving their forecasting and planning capabilities, according to the Accenture study.
Economic globalization is stretching supply chains very thin, and executives at U.S. companies say that's increasing the risk of supply chain disruptions and making it more difficult to recover when failures occur, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Accenture management consulting firm.
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Can federal, state, county and local authorities effectively collect and share information? An initiative launched in the wake of 9/11 aims to break old habits and better protect the homeland
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Rocketing oil prices are driving the nation's big oil companies to record profits, but even among this powerful group, one stands out: ExxonMobil.
No company seems clearer about itself and its mission. Exxon uses its financial might to invest heavily in applications that give it an edge in finding increasingly harder-to-reach oil and gas deposits.
At the same time, it also ensures its technology is tightly aligned with its two primary goals: finding more oil and gas, and generating more profits from operations.
Here's the story of how this well-oiled machine consistently outperforms its peers.
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Learn from the past. We've compiled a list of the errors companies have made in their major information-technology projects, culled from more than 220 case studies Baseline has presented in the last five years.
Selling to Optimal-Edge CIOs
Today’s enterprise buyers are a whole new breed. Here’s how to speak their language.
By Toby Redshaw, Corporate VP of I.T., Motorola
Companies are spending more on software as a service, as vendors improve on the technology for delivering functionality over the Internet, a market research firm said Thursday.
The portion of new business software revenue generated from SaaS products is expected to increase to 25 percent by 2011 from 5 percent last year, Gartner Inc. said.
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Smart companies are moving into enterprise portfolio management, a more sophisticated approach to an old process. Retail giant Lowe’s is using EPM to make decisions on everything from staff management to store openings.
BY CINDY WAXER
By Pam Baker
January 3, 2006 8:05AM
Zalmai Azmi bears the responsibility for the FBI's overall I.T. efforts, working with a budget determined three years in advance. "No one can possibly know what technology will become available -- or obsolete -- three years in the future," said Azmi. "Right now, I am working under the constraints of a budget drawn by my predecessor three years ago."
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By Pam Baker
January 19, 2006 7:00AM
"Programming used to be the most critical skill because so much was created from scratch," said Boeing CIO Scott Griffin. "Today we look for people who can reuse existing code to build something new and/or integrate everything that exists now. It is no longer logical to reinvent the wheel and write new code for everything."
By Walaika K. Haskins
June 27, 2006 8:00AM
"Pervasive and collaboration technologies are going to be critical," said AIG CIO Mark Popolano. "What we call search engines will be much different somewhere down the line, fostering a lot of the changes that will help transform companies and allow them to become more knowledge-sensitive."
September 11, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Notwithstanding all the emphasis I've put on text data in my past two columns, enterprises also run on numbers. Yet companies are typically staffed by humans, and most humans are somewhat ill at ease with more advanced forms of mathematics. As a result, most of what passes for quantitative analysis in
organizations is painfully, often misleadingly, simple.
However, there are quite a few exceptions to that rule, including the following:
Data mining/knowledge discovery, which actually includes an increasing amount of text mining.
Predictive analytics, which overlaps heavily with data mining.
Forecasting, which is generally regarded as separate from data mining, even though they both rely on related statistical techniques.
Optimization, which generally refers to the use of operations research techniques that contain a specific concept of "maximization
You need to know about power, cooling, facilities management, real estate, security, and a host of other issues.
By InformationWeek
Sept. 25, 2006
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193004683
Running a data center has become a lot more complicated. Today, a data center manager needs to do more than just keep the computers, networks, and applications running. He or she must understand power pricing and availability, cooling technology, real estate, facilities management, security, compliance, and a host of other areas--along with the latest in IT--to serve the business.
"The world of the data center manager has drastically changed," says Jill Eckhaus, president and chair of AFCOM, an organization of data center professionals. "With the look and feel of the data center changing so rapidly, you practically need a crystal ball to determine where to go next."
Data centers are the most expensive real estate that most businesses own. The price tag for a new 50,000-square-foot data center with 40 watts of power per square foot is around $20 million, says Bruce Shaw, VP of worldwide commercial and enterprise marketing for chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices. By 2010, he estimates that price could jump more than 1,000%.
"We have a problem, but most people haven't felt the full impact of this wave," Shaw said at the recent Data Center World conference in Orlando, Fla. "And I'm part of the problem
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What's keeping CIOs up at night? Issues involving IT alignment, staff, security, and speed are among the challenges that many business technology leaders are most likely to lose sleep over, according to a new survey by the Society for Information Management.
-Maryanne Kolbasuk McGee
Information Week
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