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Inner Wheel: Key Management Responsibilities

Connected research will ensure you are effectively tackling your three key management responsibilities: Learning Trends & Developing Strategy, Making Technology Decisions, and Improving IT Operations.

Outer Wheel: The Critical Steps to Success

Within each of the key management areas, three unique Research Note and Tool types act as defined steps toward successfully completing
the IT management lifecycle:

  • Forecast, Understand and Strategize
  • Compare, Evaluate and Select
  • Implement, Operate and Manage
Learn Trends &
Develop Strategy
Make
Technology Decisions
Improve
IT Operations
Forecast:

Trends & Predictions
  • Explains emerging issues
  • Identifies opportunities and threats
  • Keeps you ahead of the game instead of being left behind
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Understand:

Technology Insight
  • Examines what the technology is and how it works
  • Looks at both the technical and business side of the issue
  • Includes graphics to facilitate quick understanding
Strategize:

Strategy & Planning
  • Defines the key strategy and planning decisions/actions that must be taken for success
  • Provides tools and templates to write strategic plans efficiently and effectively
  • Helps you position your plan within your organization to gain the ever needed "buy in"
  • Gives you access to great ideas and strategies that your peers have successfully used to save their organizations money
Compare:

Product Comparison
  • Outlines the strengths and weaknesses of each product and vendor
  • Includes a scorecard which ranks products and vendors on key criteria
  • Provides crucial information that will empower you during vendor negotiations
Evaluate:

Product Evaluation
  • Provides a factual, unbiased spotlight on an individual vendor and its product
  • Brings key decision-making criteria into sharp focus
  • Delivers the insight to move from short list to selection
Select:

Selection Advice
  • Presents clear advice on which products are best for your situation
  • Includes tools to smooth out the business case, RFP and negotiation process
  • Delivers information to arm you so you will get the best deal for your organization
Implement:

Implement & Integrate
  • Provides specific "How To" guides for implementing new or mature technologies
  • Recommends clear direction on how to integrate with existing infrastructure
  • Highlights red flags and common pitfalls, including how to avoid them
Operate:

Operate & Optimize
  • Delivers tools and advice to improve the effectiveness, or reduce the cost, of technologies already deployed
  • Includes industry metrics to let you compare your processes and results to your peers'
  • Recommends hardware and software tools to improve performance and reduce total cost
Manage:

Management & Staffing
  • Presents advice and tools to improve both project and relationship management
  • Outlines effective methods for communication and skills development
  • Demonstrates tried and tested guidance and techniques to motivate, motivate, motivate!
 
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