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The Alignment-Focused Organization: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
Most companies have a well-defined strategy that is intended to align the actions of all individuals, teams, and business units to achieve corporate goals. But when it comes time to execute, they can run into trouble. To close the gap between strategy and execution, companies need to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities across the organization.
Best practices include:- Define strategy & align initiatives with corporate goals
- Clearly communicate strategies and plans
- Use incentives to drive employee behaviors needed to meet objectives
- Measure performance using key performance indicators
Explore how businesses can implement best practices using strategy management software.
Beth BrindleImproving Customer Support and HelpDesk Efficiencies with On-Demand Remote Support
Now you can sit at your desk and solve the toughest support problems remotely. Why visit all your employees or customers and solve their support issues at their desks when you can save time and solve them all from your desk?
NTRsupport puts the power of remote screen-sharing at your fingertips. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you can take control of employees' or customers' PCs or Macs, quickly diagnose their problems, and solve them, all without leaving your desk.
But don't take NTR Global's word for it, try a fully-functional 15-day free trial and find out first-hand how remote support can make your life a lot easier!
With NTRsupport, you'll provide instant, easy-to-use, remote support to all your customers and employees – no matter where they are, no matter what platform or device they are using.
Beth BrindleSGI® Adaptive Data Warehouse: Building a High-End Oracle Data Warehouse Using Industry-Standard Technologies
Data sets are growing ever larger. Queries are becoming increasingly complex. So SGI® and Oracle are teaming up with innovative, standards-based configurations to meet the urgent need for scalable, powerful data warehouse solutions.
Through participation in Oracle's Optimized Warehouse Initiative (OWI), SGI® works to ensure that its Adaptive Data Warehouse Solutions deliver exceptional performance and adaptability.
Within its portfolio of Adaptive Data Warehouse solutions, SGI® offers standards-based reference configurations– configurations that are based on OWI preeminent practices and designed to help ensure exceptional, scalable warehouse performance. SGI® Adaptive Data Warehouse solutions support from 5TB to 320TB of data with optimal performance. Users are able to execute highly complex, ad-hoc queries on massive amounts of data, resulting in more effectively managed business and more informed business decisions.
Beth BrindleOpen Source Database Checklist: 5 Key Attributes for the Enterprise
Open source databases can significantly cut costs vs. proprietary systems. Now find out how to choose the right system for your enterprise—whether you're considering migrating from a proprietary solution or upgrading from a previous, more limited open source platform.
In this free white paper, learn 5 key criteria to look for in an open source database for the enterprise, including:- Enterprise-level availability
- Maximizing performance
- Security for your data and applications
- Cost savings with minimal developer risk
- Compatibility with world-class support
Beth BrindleDefending the Email Infrastructure: Why Email Requires Comprehensive Protection
With organizations facing a growing number of threats and an increasingly regulated business environment, ensuring security and compliance across the email infrastructure is paramount. The complexity of this challenge requires a comprehensive solution.
This paper explores the threats facing email infrastructures, illustrating the need for multi-layered security. Learn how deploying defenses against email threats at the gateway, the email server and the endpoint will close many security holes and minimize the impact on network and IT department resources in this paper.
Beth BrindleAre You Wasting Your .NET Developer Training Budget?
If you want your software team to stay abreast of the latest software technologies while also developing new applications and supporting an existing code base, you cannot afford to rely on outmoded training methods.
This white paper explores the limitations of conventional training methods for developers, and presents 6 elements of a truly effective learning program for your development organization.
Beth BrindleMoving Service Assurance to the Next Level
OSS systems have never been as important as they are today, when operators cannot even think about delivering modern services without significant help from supporting systems.
This white paper will review emerging trends in service management and examine the benefits of Next Generation Service Assurance, identifying the most crucial challenges for NGSA solution:- providing actual information about huge number of services with complex structure
- resource dependencies offering a clear and coherent presentation and analysis of events gathered from multiple classes of sources
- organization and automatization of incident resolution process
Beth BrindleThe Total Economic Impact of Lumension Security's Sanctuary Application and Device Control
This Forrester Research study reveals how John C. Lincoln Hospitals protects their patients' information while achieving a 365% ROI on their security investment.
The study quantifies the significant benefits achieved by implementing Lumension Security's Enterprise Data Protection Solution, including:- Reduced effort required by the IT staff to enforce security policy;
- Minimized cost and effort to purchase, maintain, repair, and/or upgrade computers;
- Reduced risk/cost of sensitive information removed from the organization via removable devices;
- Reduced risk/cost of accidental or intentional malware introduction;
- Reallocated IT department resources to provide other services and a quicker response time;
- Improved quality of life for the IT staff;
- Increased user productivity from improved computer uptime and performance.
Beth BrindleDo's and Don'ts of Search Engine Optimization
The world of Search Engine Optimization has a colorful past, including both good techniques and poor techniques, known as search engine spam. Search Engine Optimizers are frequently categorized as White Hat or Black Hat. White Hat techniques embrace a "Best Practices" approach to SEO, working for both the good of the Web site and the good of the Search Engines, while Black Hat techniques can actually harm results and devalue a web site.
This white paper examines the proper techniques of Search Engine Optimization, as well as which ones to avoid.
Beth BrindleWorst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail
This paper provides insight into the top four worst practices for business intelligence and offers guidance on how to avoid or overcome these worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. After reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to identify and combat the top-four worst practices for BI and achieve success with your BI initiatives.
Beth BrindleBest Practices for Securing Exchange Email
Email is an essential business tool for organizations of all sizes. Yet it is also the easiest way for hackers, spammers, and other malicious threats to penetrate and disrupt business operations. End-to-end security is as vital to today's businesses as email itself.
Discover how to deliver enterprise-level security to small, medium and large businesses through email hosting with a truly qualified provider--one that implements best-of-breed technology and follows best practices for email security comprising deep expertise in people, technology, and processes.
Beth BrindleHow to Champion a Commercial Open Source IT Management Solution to Executive Management
Today's new trend in IT Management is to replace proprietary solutions for open source solutions because of the proprietary software's restricted extensibility, bloated functionality, and lofty maintenance costs. Often, these open source projects replacing proprietary software are discovered by middle IT managers who are pleased with the results on a test environment. These managers have several important steps ahead of them to prove the open source strength and cost effectiveness to convince management to make the switch.
Join Audrey Rasmussen, analyst at Ptak, Noel and Associates share insight on what Senior IT managers are experiencing today in their software purchasing, including outside influencers such as budget shifts, service level expectations, and heterogeneous environment orchestration which proves vital insight for selling in a new project that's open source based.
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Time: 8:00 am PT/11:00 am ET/4:00 pm GMT
Duration: 60 minutes
Beth BrindleThe Essential Guide to Solving Server Sprawl
Given the challenge of server sprawl, the desire to reduce energy costs, and the increasing demand for computer resources and rack space, today is an ideal time to consider Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for database consolidation in 64-bit computing environments.
Download this free guide for:
- A clear understanding of the problem of server sprawl
- Steps for a successful consolidation
- A discussion of hardware options, scalability, and licensing options
Beth BrindleSmart SOA: Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization
SOA is a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports agile business innovation and optimization. SOA enables you to integrate your business as linked, repeatable business tasks or services. But pursuing SOA on an ad hoc basis can drastically reduce its benefits.
This white paper outlines IBM's approach to SOA, garnered from best practices and lessons learned from experiences with clients to help extend the value of SOA deployments in a set of guiding principles.
Beth BrindleUsing Technology to Drive Growth and Stay Competitive
Running a fast-growth company is a remarkable task, one that is not without sacrifices and struggles. However, it is equally difficult to sustain the growth that made your company a success in the first place.
Inspired by the popular Inc. magazine feature, "How I Did It, " this free online video demonstrates how to drive growth and stay competitive, and shares solutions that will help your company innovate within its industry and deliver products that meet the evolving demands of consumers.
Beth Brindle
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