Harvard Business Review Article: Mastering the Management System
[ Source: SAP ]
December 2011-
Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the right strategic direction, and the best strategy in the world will get nowhere without strong operations to execute it.<br><br>
In this article, Kaplan, of Harvard Business School, and Norton, founder and director of the Palladium Group, explain how to effectively manage both ...
The Current State of Business Analytics: Where Do We Go From Here?
[ Source: SAS ]
October 2011-
Learn the results of a recent Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services study designed to deliver insights into the current state of business analytics in today's organizations. This study, conducted among 930 businesses across the globe in various industries, uncovered answers to two key questions: How far have organizations come in capitalizing on the use of business analytics and what differences exist between those companies getting high value from analytics and those that have not yet reached that ...
Big Data: Harnessing a Game-Changing Asset
[ Source: SAS ]
October 2011-
This report from the Economist Intelligence Unit explores the impact of big data and how companies are currently handling it. Inside, you will find survey results from 586 executives from across industries and around the world. Additional features include in-depth interviews with executives at 12 leading corporations on their present data usage with analysis from industry experts at two top business universities.<br><br>
This report also looks at the organizational characteristics of ...
CA Interactive IT Executive Series: Application Lifecycle Management Part 2
[ Source: CA ]
June 2011-
As organizations recover from the global recession and begin to look to more efficient and effective expansion of services provided to end-users, many organizations are struggling with how to thrive as IT environments become more and more complex. One way IT executives are addressing this, is to break down on the traditional IT silos that have hampered successful service deployment and management and to look at applications, infrastructure, and management as one organization working together ...
CA Interactive IT Executive Series: Application Lifecycle Management Part 1
[ Source: CA ]
June 2011-
Emerging service delivery models are changing the nature of the application lifecycle. Cloud computing and managed services promise substantial cost and flexibility benefits, but make the performance of applications dependent on services outside the enterprise. Highly virtualized, dynamic infrastructures make it difficult to predict or assess exactly what makes up the production environments. As a result, offline testing models are becoming obsolete and meaningful metrics can only come from real-world, production environments. Organizations once solely ...
How To Drive Leads: B2B Technology Collateral Survey Report Released
[ Source: Emedia ]
March 2011-
This report lays out how white papers and other marketing content is consumed and perceived among technology buyers in the B2B sector.
You'll also learn: - What content and collateral needs to be influential in 2011 - How tech buyers have been taking to video, social media, and other "new media" - How to build a content portfolio that drives quality leads.
5 Emerging Trends Affecting IT Staff in the Recovery
[ Source: Hudson IT ]
August 2010-
As we move into an economic recovery phase, Hudson sought to understand how the people within our clients’ IT organizations are most affected. Aside from the obvious effects of staff reductions, a handful of trends are emerging as described in this article. Here is an excerpt…
Trend 1: FOCUS ON BUSINESS NEEDS REQUIRES MORE TALENTED PEOPLE -- Sharper IT Alignment with Business Needs Drives Focus on Building Quality Staff
One of the ...
Business Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices of Material Master Data Management
[ Source: Zynapse ]
January 2010-
Wondering why most organizations are challenged in driving continuing positive ROI from their system consolidation exercise? This paper focuses on what Meta group analysts Barry Wilderman and Bruce Hudson have to say about the impact of Material Master Consolidation in a system consolidation exercise.
Expert Opinions on the Future of Central and Eastern European IT Outsourcing Market
[ Source: IT Sourcing Europe Limited ]
November 2010-
IT Sourcing Europe provides a brief summary of expert opinions on future development of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as a powerful IT outsourcing (ITO) hub. The findings are presented in the "Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2010," by Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA).
2010 Trends in Scandinavian IT Outsourcing Revealed
[ Source: IT Sourcing Europe Limited ]
November 2010-
IT Sourcing Europe compares and contrasts the key findings of its Swedish, Norwegian and Danish IT Outsourcing surveys 2010. IT Sourcing Europe, a UK-based nearshore IT outsourcing (ITO) research and advisory company, has surveyed ITO companies in Denmark, Sweden and Norway between June and October 2010 in order to identify this year's key trends in Scandinavian software development (SD) outsourcing. Overall, the 697 Scandinavian companies took part in the surveys and anonymously shared their ITO experience with a ...