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Posted by: Ina Felsheim October 16, 2012  If you’re one of the many who isn’t yet tracking metrics and constantly reporting business value achieved through your efforts, you can use the Gartner whitepaper statistic below to help you quantify results.
How many business initiatives did you undertake last year? How many delivered on time, on target, and have increasing adoption? How many do you plan to undertake next year?
Ask your CIO or program management office for these numbers—then have a discussion. If you’re normal, 40 percent of those projects will fail. Investing in the quality of the …
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Posted by: Malcolm Faulkner October 10, 2012  Towards the end of the year, McKinsey releases its global survey on IT. In these surveys, they ask “executives across all functions, industries, and regions about their companies’ use of, expectations for, and spending on IT.” It’ll be interesting to see this year’s focus given how the big three new technology paradigms—mobility, cloud, and big data – are dominating IT mindshare.
Top of the list last year was the need for IT to continue improving both the effectiveness and efficiency of business processes, keeping a lid on costs while simultaneously serving …
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Posted by: Helen Dwight April 4, 2011  For 3 hours and 21 minutes, yesterday, I sat glued to the TV watching one of the most electrifying ATP men’s singles tennis finals, the Sony Ericsson Openstreaming live from Miami, where amazingly talented Novak Djokovic (world #2) took on the great Rafael Nadal (world #1) for the second time in the space of a few weeks. They’re …
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