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12 Management of IT Podcasts
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What Makes for Good IT Governance
cio.com— — “Peter Weill, Director of the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and co-author of IT Governance, discusses lessons he learned while researching his book.”
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The Role of the CIO in a Network Services World
cio.com— — “Greg Papadopoulous, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Sun Microsystems, is interviewed by CIO publisher Gary Beach on how chief information officers can gain competitive advantage leveraging a network services architecture.”
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The Dead End Project Trap
cio.com— — “Ed Yourdon, author of Death March, tells us how to avoid dead-end projects and what to do if you find yourself in one.”
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Are You Ready for the Coming Era of Rational Exuberance?
cio.com— — “Economic indicators, CEO confidence, global competition, aging infrastructures and increases in IT spending levels all point to an era of rational exuberance for IT investment.”
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IT leadership and the Role of the CIO: The Annual Gartner/EDUCAUSE Update
connect.educause.edu— — “As higher education institutions face a growing shortage of IT leaders, some executives question the need for a CIO while others see this role expanding. Will consider the role of the CIO and how it has evolved, along with current and future institutional needs for IT leadership.”
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Relationship Management: Stronger Parternerships to Inform IT Planning
connect.educause.edu— — “Relationship management is a holistic approach to understanding customer IT needs that augments existing relationships between customers and IT service teams. The goals are to position central IT to understand customer priorities and to inform operational and strategic planning.”
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The Last Mile of Change Management
channelinsider.com— — “It’s more expensive to fix an application problem once a product is released than if it had been caught in the development process. Getting a hold on application lifecycle management can deliver big savings to users.”
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The Elusive Paper Chase
cio.com— — “CIO Publisher Gary Beach talks with Kevin Pickhardt, CEO of Pharos, about a major hidden cost of IT.”
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Where the Workers Are?
businessweek.com— — “Today, most offshore IT outsourcing is done in India, but the field of prospective players from different nations is widening as companies look for new sources of low-cost labor.”
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IT Controls Benchmark Survey Results
itworld.com— — The purpose of the survey was to demonstrate how IT organizations can begin to move from good to great in handling IT control issues.
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IT leadership: Transforming the CIO
itworld.com— — According to a recent report from the IT Leadership Academy, 16 percent of CIOs are world-class, 23 percent are good, and the rest span the spectrum of averageness ? and that’s being generous. Just how did this happen?
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Measuring Returns on IT Investments: Some Tools and Techniques
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Laptop computers could make a sales force more productive, but they also cost more than desktop PCs. Should a company buy laptops for its salespeople?”