IT Solutions Series

This series of articles and podcasts, sponsored by IBM,
explore the latest IT solution trends, strategies and tactics
being used by leading edge organizations around the world to
accomplish mission critical organizational objectives.
  

Podcast Series: IT Strategies for Doing more with Less

Knowledge Gap on Business Process Management
Hampers IT/Business Alignment --  Business process
management may be on the lips of many, but it is being
actively pursued as a dedicated discipline by relatively few in
the corporate environment. (
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Web 2.0 Strives to be Collaboration Software of Choice
for Enterprises -- Beyond the buzz and hype, there is solid
evidence that Web 2.0 is capturing the imagination of IT
managers who must address the growing imperative to
support enhanced collaboration within and between
organizations.  (
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Lack of IT Governance Complicates Compliance with
Costly Consequences -- Compliance breakdowns and
governance failures across industry sectors are now among
the most common – and unwelcome – headlines in the
business press today. Despite these frequent reminders on
the costly consequences of lax security risk management,
there is still evidence that many organizations do not place
sufficient executive attention on this issue.  (
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New Content Management Practices Capture Data
Currently Out of Reach -- For years we have been told
that—when it comes to content management—you cannot
manage what you do not measure. But for many enterprises,
current content management strategies prevent many IT
managers from even finding critical information. And certainly
it is impossible to measure what you cannot put your hands
on.  (
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Data Governance Manages Growing Risks in Data
Management -- While the last five years have seen the
development of large-scale repositories that, in isolation, work
quite well, this tactical approach to data management exposes
enterprises to risks and information gaps that enterprises
cannot afford.  (
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Disaster Recovery: Does Your Management Get It? --
Prevention is always a hard sell for people and organizations
that are going flat out to meet the demands of the day. This
may help explain why researchers at UK-based Chartered
Management Institute (CMI) find that less than half of over
750 companies surveyed have disaster recovery and business
continuity strategies in place. (
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Global Complexities Challenge How IT Managers Handle
Distribution -- Shifting business environments are causing a
growing number of IT managers to rethink how they handle
distribution management. Growing dependence on extended
and diffuse partner networks, for instance is creating new
operational complexities that have put a strain on traditional
management practices.  (
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Is IT Ready to Spearhead "Green" Energy Efficiency
Efforts? As energy efficiency becomes more of a corporate
initiative, technology departments will likely be heavily involved
in leading enterprise initiatives to improve energy use while
additionally reducing the corporate carbon footprint.  
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Systems Management Initiatives Tap SOA to Boost
Systems ROI -- IT managers tasked with “innovating” their
way out of cumbersome technology infrastructures and
outdated business processes are re-thinking their systems
management strategies by harnessing the potential of
Services Oriented Architectures.  (
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Is Virtualization Still Only Virtually Understood? -- We
are approaching a point in the “virtualization” hype-cycle
where performance and delivered value will have to manifest
itself in some tangible form.  (
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