May 07, 2012|
You work on a tight budget where requirements are hard to pin down and they change all the time. And whatever you build has to go into production quickly and be flexible to grow in any number of directions depending on what happens next. How do you handle this challenge?
May 01, 2012|
What would happen if your company employed game dynamics to keep everybody informed and enthusiastically involved in achieving its business goals? A multi-billion dollar global consumer products company is doing just that. This is an example of the power of game dynamics applied to business.
April 23, 2012|
The combination of tough times plus the spread of social technology makes this a great time for the CIO who has innovative ideas about how to use the latter to respond to the former. Here's an idea to consider.
March 23, 2012|
Sunlight shining on my face woke me up this morning. I was stretched out flat on my back, warm under covers, and so relaxed my legs and arms felt fuzzy.
February 29, 2012|
Social media and web-based data collection tools allow companies to monitor individual customers in real-time and amass huge amounts of data about their habits and preferences. What if they started amassing similar data about the habits and effectiveness of their employees?
February 20, 2012|
Something unexpected happens when companies combine the use of three types of systems: business process management (BPM); business intelligence (BI); and interactive simulation systems. It creates something larger than the sum of its parts - something agile.
February 07, 2012|
Massively multiplayer online role playing games are pushing the envelope in technology and player engagement. They point the way to business collaboration platforms in the not too distant future.
January 30, 2012|
What do pilots, soldiers and surgeons have in common? Answer: They all work in professions where the cost of failure can be severe. And because of this, they are three professions that make heavy use of interactive simulations and what are known as “serious games”.
January 16, 2012|
Are IT people different from other people in business? Are we geeks? Is that good or bad? The age old question of whether IT people are different from other people in a company becomes more important now that IT is integral to everything a company does from marketing to HR.
January 03, 2012|
Video games provide effective and field tested operating models for harnessing the power of feedback loops to succeed in our real-time economy.
Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most significant game changers to hit the technology landscape in the past 20 years. With this massive expansion of the cloud, the perception of the IT organization is shifting from a utility player to a change agent. This eBook breaks down five ways progressive organizations are using cloud-based IT Management solutions to help drive innovation and become more strategic, including: adding visibility and analytics, speeding up time-to-value, lowering costs, improving prioritization, and providing a blueprint for future cloud deployments.
There are 3 ways to modernize legacy applications: rewrite completely, acquire packaged solutions or migrate existing code. This paper explains why it's best to migrate and how IBM® Rational® software can help.
Accommodating specific lines of business can result in a hybrid ecosystem of applications and servers. The resulting complexity of this architecture makes for an environment that is costly to maintain and difficult to change when addressing new challenges.
This whitepaper will help you to define a mobile device passcode policy. Security managers must attempt to reconcile two opposing goals. They must: 1) create a passcode policy that is strong enough to protect the device if it is lost or stolen, while: 2) not annoying users with needless length or complexity.
This whitepaper, authored by The Radicati Group, looks at the key reasons organizations should consider moving to a cloud-based archiving solution. Email archiving solutions enable organizations to store, monitor, and collect electronic data exchanged by their users to comply with internal policies and regulations.
ATERNITY will showcase a 30-minute demo on how Fortune 500 companies are leveraging its award-winning FPI Platform to deliver a user-centric approach to Proactive IT Management.
For businesses to move forward and tap into the ever-expanding universe of Internet users and network-enabled devices, it's critical to learn how to make the transition to IPv6. Learn the critical steps your organization must take to make a seamless transition-and keep your business world connected.
Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks.
Learn how to build a solid business case for your migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux so you can run leaner, innovate faster, be more flexible and own the New Now.
Social media isn't about you; it's about everything around you. As you consider how your customers want to communicate with you, social media is something that can't be ignored. But what should your strategy be? Is social media "just another channel?" What kind of a plan makes sense for your contact center and for your customers? Join our experts as they share their insight and research results.
Hardware tokens were a popular method of strong authentication in past years but the cumbersome provisioning and distribution tasks, high support requirements and replacement costs have limited their growth. The additional log-in steps that hardware tokens require and the resulting user frustrations have limited adoption and make them impractical for larger scale partner and customer applications.