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Trends in IT put pressure on IT leaders to bring new skills into the IT department. Organizations expect the IT department to adapt to shifting technology without an increase in headcount.

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Record the list of IT employees who can meet departmental needs through redeployment.

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Redeployment provides the easiest and most affordable way for IT departments to gain new skills and take on new responsibilities. Locate new areas of demand, select the right employee, retrain, and redeploy.

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Redeployment provides the easiest and most affordable way for IT departments to gain new skills and take on new responsibilities. Locate skill priorities and assess the value of redeployment.

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Use this tool to assess the redeployability of a shortlist of employees.

28-Jan-10 Are you thinking about migrating to Windows 7? It’s not hard, but due diligence and good planning are paramount for a successful migration. You need to follow best practices, which includes tapping into Microsoft’s readily available —...

'Tis the season for sickness and snowstorms. Make sure your telework processes and policies are working for your IT department with this series of resources designed to make telework painless.

(4-Dec-09) In the race between plummeting costs per terabyte and exploding amounts of data in need of storage, the latter perpetually seems miles ahead. In 2007, IDC estimated that the “digital universe” would grow from 161 exabytes in 2006 to...

(26-Oct-09) Italian energy-services firm Saipem isn't taking the troubled economy lying down. Instead, it's focusing on making better use of existing staff. While many companies have reacted to the current economy with layoffs and cutbacks,...

Info-Tech Research Group has developed a free Web-based assessment tool that evaluates an organization's fit for application management services, or AMS. AMS, also called application outsourcing, is the contracting of software application...

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When organizational or market factors fluctuate, project priorities may shift due to changing realities. Organizations that have multiple projects competing for limited resources face some key challenges.

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The purpose of Business ? IT Alignment is to optimize the value that IT contributes to the enterprise. As such, in order to successfully outline a strategic IT roadmap, it is important to start here.

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Compare the structure of the IT organization with the structure of the corporation. Misalignment can occur when the corporation has adopted one type or organizing model while the IT organization adopts another. For example, some organizations...

Utility infrastructure ? the abstraction of processors and storage from the underlying hardware to enable dynamic provisioning of these resources to applications ? will improve capacity utilization and increase IT agility. Making this a reality...

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The role of the Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants...

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The role of the Project Office Manager is to establish, implement, develop, and control best practices for IT project management throughout the organization. This includes defining and documenting all policies and processes of project lifecycles...

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The Corporate Librarian's role is to manage and maintain all company-owned information resources and associated content. This includes ensuring that the storing, archiving, and taxonomical layout of information resources are consistent across...

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Measuring project performance and calculating ROI will help halt failing projects before they consume additional resources. Use this ROI calculator to help stop the bleeding.

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Measuring project performance, and calculating ROI, will help you halt failing projects before they consume additional resources. Use this worksheet to help you make your ROI calculations.

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Use Info-Tech's sample limited personal use policy to achieve a balance of end-user opinion and corporate networking interests.

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Use this goal-setting template to help you allocate resources wisely and communicate IT's direction to the rest of the company.

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Use this policy to preserve the finite amount of storage space available on network servers