Technology white papers
Technology is central to business today as the western economies become knowledge-based in the move away from manufacturing and production. The CIO is expected to deliver technology that will benefit the business through increased efficiencies, innovative services to users and consumers, and an improvement in the effectiveness of the organisation. An effective CIO must know when to adopt new technology and when to extract the maximum from existing systems.
Technology
Delivering a competitive advantage through IT
Intel | Published: 15:56 GMT, 07 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk
Use IT to deliver business value
IT organisations share a common mission; to optimise investments and streamline operations to create value for themselves. Business value can be delivered in numerous ways. IT is used to enhance employee productivity, facilitate business growth, and to drive business efficiency and bottom line results.
A strategy for enterprise modernisation
Zylog | Published: 12:12 GMT, 07 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk
A CIO's guide
As the enterprise becomes more or less effective so does IT. Enterprise effectiveness drives or creates the environment for IT to be effective. Only 1 in 10 CIO's perceive their IT organisation to be more effective than the enterprise. Because the enterprise and IT are so closely connected in this respect, CIO's can take steps to raise the effectiveness of both and in the process establish IT as part of the engine that drives enterprise success.
A manager's guide to implementing capacity management
TeamQuest | Published: 09:48 GMT, 03 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk
Getting started
Although capacity management has been in existence in one form or another for over 40 years, only a minority of shops have chosen to implement it. With constantly lowering prices, many IT shops have chosen to throw hardware at performance and capacity problems rather than spend the time to manage what they have. In the past, that approach has worked, however times and management challenges have changed and costs increased; demanding a different approach. Capacity Management is one solution.
A decision makers guide to hybrid and cloud computing
Rackspace | Published: 14:10 GMT, 25 January 12 | www.cio.co.uk
The process every enterprise should think through
In recent years cloud computing has made the difficult transition from marketing buzzword to credible technology. More and more IT organisations are achieving real cost efficiencies from cloud and hybrid solutions while improving their business agility.
Top 10 considerations for your IT operations management in the cloud
Numara | Published: 14:14 GMT, 05 January 12 | www.cio.co.uk
Streamline and secure your IT Operations
This paper explores ten questions every IT organization should answer to help determine their cloud based ITOM needs.
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