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- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?
- I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...
- Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Can flagging industries be replaced by BPO services?
- President-Elect Obama is facing a massive task to redeploy workers in consolidating and declining industries, such as automotive manufacturing. Could creating BPO jobs we an answer? Could the USA become a competitive BPO location? by Phil Fersht
- Tags: BPO, Industry, President-Elect Obama, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht, Job, Chrysler LLC, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- ITIL V3: Making Business Services Serve the Business
- ITIL V3, the latest version of the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, represents a significant advancement for the practice of Business Service Management BSM. Changes in ITIL V3 include the restructuring of the library into a service lifecycle framework with lifecycle stages that include Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition,...
- Tags: Business Service, ASG Software Solutions, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-11-12
- The change imperative: It's back-to-basics time
- It's about accepting we now operate in a global economy and that we are competing at a level where we need to work as hard, and as smart, as the next nation. I hope President-Elect Obama can help instill a new work culture in the US. by Phil Fersht
- Tags: Imperative, Phil Fersht, Meltdown, BPO, Industry, Deterioration, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Strategy, Banking, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Financial Services
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- ITIL requires better log management and analytics to gain IT operational efficiency, accountability
- Because the business of IT supporting a business is relatively new, we are still trying to grow and mature those frameworks of what we all agree upon is the best way to handle things. ... When people look at ITIL, organizations assume that it's something you can simply purchase and...
- Tags: Analytics, Information Technology, Accountability, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Gardner, Information Technology Infrastructure Library Framework, Strategy, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Vmware-Making your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure
- Using virtualization for disaster recovery allows companies to extend the disaster coverage to more applications while reducing the recovery time and making the process more reliable. To learn more about business continuity solutions with virtual infrastructure, download the whitepaper.
- Tags: VMware Inc., Business Continuity, It Services
- White papers 2008-11-05
- Vmware-Better business continuity with Vmware virtual infrastructure
- Implementing plans to ensure business continuity for key IT services is an essential requirement for organizations today. Downtime of important applications is a costly proposition and extended downtime can even be fatal—industry research finds that a significant number of companies that that experience extended interruption to IT services...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Business Continuity, It Services
- White papers 2008-11-05
- ITIL® Service Lifecycle: Service Strategy
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will be immersed in the overall concepts, processes, policies, and methods associated with the Service Strategy phase of the Service Lifecycle. You'll focus on managing and controlling the activities and techniques within the Service Strategy stage, not the detail...
- Tags: Strategy, Global Knowledge Network Inc., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications
- Training 2008-11-01
- ITIL® Service Lifecycle: Continual Service Improvement
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will be immersed in the overall concepts, processes, policies, and methods associated with the Continual Service Improvement CSI phase of the Service Lifecycle. The course covers the management and control of the activities and techniques within the CSI stage,...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Course, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications
- Training 2008-11-01
- ITIL® Service Capability: Planning, Protection, and Optimization
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will be immersed in the practical aspects of the ITIL v3 Service Lifecycle and processes associated with the Planning, Protection, and Optimization of services and service delivery. You will focus on the operational-level process activities and supporting methods and...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Optimization, Planning, Protection, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- Training 2008-11-01
- ITIL® Service Lifecycle: Service Design
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will be immersed in the overall concepts, processes, policies, and methods associated with the Service Design phase of the Service Lifecycle. You will cover management and control of the activities and techniques within the Service Design stage, not the...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications
- Training 2008-11-01
- ITIL® v3: Managing Across the Lifecycle
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis is the final module of the Service Lifecycle and/or Service Capability Intermediate courses that lead to the ITIL Expert in IT Service Management recognition. In this course, you'll be immersed in the contents of the ITIL V3 publications. You'll focus on business,...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., ITIL, It Services, Process Improvement, Service Level Management, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management
- Training 2008-11-01
- Offshore BPO (zip)
- Complete explanation of BPO companies and following types of BPO companies in specific. BPO companies are categorized as follows: Offshore BPO Companies, Onshore BPO Companies, Near Shore BPO Companies. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Offshore, BPO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Software downloads 2008-10-29
- Gathering clouds brew up a storm
- With all kinds of cloud announcements promised at Microsoft PDC next week, rival vendors Amazon and Rackspace have tried to steal a little early thunder with some announcements of their own. This is the beginning of a titanic struggle to establish the top cloud providers, and this week's announcements have...
- Tags: Rackspace, Web Hosting, It Services, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-10-25
- Oracle Blends Managed Services With OnDemand Pricing
- Growing businesses are increasingly realising that Managed Services offer a scalable, flexible route forward. This whitepaper explores Oracle Managed Services offerings for PeopleSoft and Siebel, and sees how they can deliver an easier deployment, with on-demand pricing.
- Tags: Managed Services, Oracle Corp., On-demand, It Services
- White papers 2008-10-23
- IT services spending in UAE increased 41% in 2007 to nearly $791 mln
- According to a recent IDC study, IT services spending in UAE increased 41% year on year in 2007 to nearly $791 mln. While 2006 saw infrastructure-related services, such as hardware and software installation and support, making up the largest portion of the IT services market, the situation changed in 2007...
- Tags: Information Technology, U.A.E., Systems Integration, It Services, NB, International Data Corp., Strategy, Management
- Blog posts 2008-10-19
- Western European IT services market will grow 4.8% in 2008-2012
- According to a recent study published by IDC, the Western European IT services market will grow 4.8% in 2008-2012, to reach $249 billion by 2012. Despite the economic downturn, higher demand for outsourcing combined with the increasing externalization of custom application developments will drive IT services spending upwards by 5% in...
- Tags: Custom Application Development, Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-18
- ITIL - Service Approach for Siemens Enterprise Communications
- The structure of ITIL is evolving from Version 2 to Version 3; understand how the adoption and application of the ITIL framework can add value to your enterprise, and how Siemens is taking the ITIL model and using it to drive portfolio and proposition development, alongside global service delivery capabilities....
- Tags: Siemens AG, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-10-08
- Business Continuity in a Virtual Environment
- Are you prepared for virtual environment outages that affect business continuity? What are the potential threats in virtual systems? This webcast covers the strategies and approaches for protecting your virtual environment--including hypervisors. virtual machines, and physical hosts--to help you assess and select the appropriate high availability...
- Tags: Virtual Environment, Business Continuity, It Services
- Webcasts 2008-09-30
- Oracle, the Innovation Company: Core Innovation, Fusion Applications' Debut, and Why It's All Up to AIA
- If I had to distill a vast and complex product strategy into a single, admittedly simplistic description, Oracle of late would have been known as a company that innovates through acquisition: This has been largely true since Oracle's acquisition binge started five years ago. And until now innovation through acquisition...
- Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, E-Business Suite, Oracle Business Intelligence App, Application Integration, Leadership, It Services, Strategy, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
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