Organizations often measure business operations and spending, but these measurements may not tackle their main challenges. A meaningful, measurable strategy helps...
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This blueprint reviews the characteristics, pros, and cons of cloud services, helping readers understand when to employ software-, platform-, and...
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IT managers have come under increasing pressure to cut costs, and implementing shared services has become a popular demand from the business.
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Though the benefits are widely understood, many organizations don't have SOPs and those that do don't maintain them. Adopt an approach to drive process improvement,...
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The business is rarely satisfied with current service levels. However this dissatisfaction is often based on perception. Without an internal SLA that effectively tracks...
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Understanding Microsoft’s licensing can be like learning a new language and, to add a twist, the rules of the language change from year to year. The push to the cloud has...
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All too often, Infrastructure is left in a reactive mode, overwhelmed with work, while the business fumes at the delay. Follow the roadmap process to better interface...
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Budgeting is a dreaded process for many infrastructure and operations leaders. Priorities and initiatives get questioned and debated by business managers and there never...
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It looks advantageous to share services that are unanimously used throughout the organization. However, business units may be reluctant to leverage such services....
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Actively plan to acquire needed skills in order to rapidly enable and integrate new business demands while still managing legacy workloads.
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