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Despite years of experience managing projects, IT organizations continue to make common, yet avoidable project management mistakes. To help you keep your team’s projects on track we’ve outlined solutions for five common project management pitfalls in this brief, but insightful document.
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College Websites are breaking new ground in the ways they interact with prospective students, parents, high school guidance counselors and college consultants. This paper provides four strategies for enhancing the effectiveness of college Websites to drive admissions and recruitment. It also offers four concepts for measuring and improving Web success and eight tips for leveraging social media from Melissa Richards, Director of Marketing and Strategic Communications at Virginia Tech.
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In this paper we explore ways Microsoft® SharePoint®, an application already installed in a majority of enterprises, can help CFOs meet the challenges facing them in 2009 and beyond. Armed with an understanding of SharePoint features and skilled resources who can transform the technology into a powerful business solution, finance organizations can be weeks, not months or years, away from meeting the operational demands ahead. In this paper, we identify five challenges facing CFOs today; challenges that can be met using SharePoint. We then offer best practice "do's and dont's" for making SharePoint a transformational resource for your finance operations.
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North American economic conditions are deteriorating, creating both risks and opportunities. IT organization operating environments will be more challenging in the year ahead. Specific actions in Q1 2008 will better position enterprise IT organizations to improve operating performance and focus scarce resources on business-differentiating projects. Investments in process improvement and financial re-engineering initiatives will decrease future operating expenses, optimize project selection and increase IT alignment with the business.
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Think about a visitor’s experience with your Website as a conversation – an exchange between the visitor and the provider. As a marketer, how can you structure this conversation in a way that puts the consumer in the center? The intersection of creative marketing and technology is making this possible, especially when it comes to the content management systems that power your hospital's Web presence.
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There is value to be gained through the effective management of IT assets. All too often though, the fact that IT assets aren't being managed effectively, surfaces when a problem arises (e.g.; a suspected impropriety creates the need for a reconciliation of invoice data with the assets on hand). Is your company one of the few currently realizing the benefits of effective IT asset management or are you waiting for a problem to spur you to action? In this white paper, we provide you with a quick assessment tool that will help you determine if action is required and if so, how to get started.
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The economic meltdown has amplified interest in technologies which help enterprises TCO, while gaining competitive and/or operational advantages. Coupled with a growing interest in all things "green," persistent concerns over security and improvements in virtualization technologies, Systems Alliance believes now is the perfect time for enterprises to replace their aging desktop PCs with centrally managed, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and thin-client appliances. The decision to survey IT decision makers about this topic was catalyzed when Intel released results of its own desktop refresh survey in May 2009 which found 68 percent of businesses were maintaining or increasing the rate with which they would refresh PCs. While our survey validates this finding, it also indicates a growing interest and planned investment in VDI technologies.
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Systems Alliance has developed a three-dimensional assessment and planning process to help you maximize the potential business and operational benefits of enterprise consolidation. This brief paper describes our process and provides a quick assessment tool for helping IT decision makers evaluate their readiness and need for enterprise consolidation.
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