Implement a Shared Services Model
Look before you leap; assess your internal capabilities and develop a careful plan before adopting a shared services model.
Optimize Project Intake, Approval, and Prioritization
Give yourself the voice to say “no” (or “not yet”) to new projects.
Implement Desktop Virtualization and Transition to Everything as a Service
From VDI to DaaS, desktop virtualization is back. Choose the right solution, then develop an implementation plan that balances user experience, infrastructure complexity, and total cost.
Reduce Costly Downtime Through DR Testing
Improve the accuracy of your DRP and your team’s ability to efficiently execute recovery procedures through regular DR testing.
Build or Refresh the Wireless LAN
Right-size your WLAN to support your ever-evolving business needs.
Take Control of Compliance Improvement to Conquer Every Audit
Don’t gamble recklessly with external compliance. Play a winning system and take calculated risks to stack the odds in your favor.
Fast Track Your Teams’ Leadership Skills
Quick, simple, and effective tactics to make your IT leaders better at their jobs while driving real business value.
Stay on Top of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Mobile App Trends
It’s time to go beyond basic mobile apps and start offering innovative and valuable solutions.
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Build or Refresh the WLAN
Don’t gamble with your wireless network; enhance guest experience with an efficient and reliable WLAN.
Make IT a Partner in Successful M&A Due Diligence
Get IT involved in the M&A process pre-close to help ensure post-close success.
Implement Crisis Management Best Practices
Don’t be another example of what not to do. Implement an effective crisis response plan to minimize the impact on business continuity, reputation, and profitability.
Develop an IT Strategy to Support Sales
Bring Sales back to your side with a rock star sales technology strategy.
Develop a Mature Testing Practice to Produce Better Quality Applications
Continually improve your application testing process. Take your test game to the next level.
Establish the Benefits Realization Process
Stop dreaming about expected value and start delivering it!
Develop and Deploy Security Policies
Enhance your overall security posture while using time, money, and resources effectively.
Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS and PaaS Environments
Keep your information security risks manageable when leveraging the benefits of cloud computing.
Outsource Network Management
Outsource network management for optimal availability, reliability, and performance, but keep a firm hand on governance to maintain accountability and control.
Develop a Resource Management Strategy for the New Reality
Reclaim project capacity with realistic resource management.
Manage a Minimum-Viable PMO
Provide project managers with processes that they have the time to follow.
Perform a Data Audit
Don’t just execute an audit to identify what issues exist, probe deeper to unravel why they exist.
Stop Just Managing Capacity by Moving to a Capacity-as-a-Service Strategy
Capacity planning is a skill that all infrastructure professionals need to develop.
Make a Data-Driven Decision on Unified Communications
Quantify the real value and need for UC to make the business case and build a realistic roadmap.
Transform IT Through Strategic Organizational Design
Is your IT organizational design built for success?
Create an Effective Plan to Implement IT Asset Management
Gain the support and knowledge you need to launch a successful ITAM practice to start saving money and making better decisions tomorrow.
Align IT with the Real End Customer
Ensure IT and the business are working towards the same goal: improving customer experience.
Vendor Landscape: Application Lifecycle Management
Manage the complexity of today’s highly distributed apps and frequent deployment cycles.
Vendor Landscape: Software Testing Solutions
Testing tools continue horizontal and vertical feature expansion to accommodate increasing application complexity.
Transfer IT Knowledge Before It’s Gone
66 million Baby Boomers are set to retire and they’re taking 50+ years of knowledge with them.
Vendor Landscape: Data Loss Prevention
Adversaries have changed the game, it’s time you change your DLP.
Terminate the IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Relationship
There must be 50 ways to leave your vendor.
Reduce IT Admin Risks & Costs with Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Control the access of your most critical users without breaking your budget.
Establish an Effective System of Internal IT Controls to Mitigate Risks
The only thing worse than a lack of control is the illusion of control.
Establish an Effective PMO for IT
Over 60% of IT projects don’t succeed – build an effective PMO to avoid becoming another statistic.
Create a Comprehensive BPM Strategy for Successful Process Automation
Avoid project failure by keeping the “B” in BPM.
Govern and Manage an Enterprise Software Implementation
Don’t outsource your brain. You can’t outsource project accountability to the SI.
Manage an Agile Portfolio
Improve project oversight without imposing old-school command-and-control.
Ensure Cloud Security in a SaaS Environment
The devil’s in the details when realizing full value from a SaaS program.
Optimize the Current Testing Process for Enterprise Mobile Applications
One-size-fits-all testing does not work – test for a mobile-specific context.
Recover Data Center Space After IT Infrastructure Outsourcing
Get rid of your extra in-house data center space and equipment before you destroy your outsourcing business case.
Choose the Right Development Platform for Enterprise Mobile Applications
While developing a mobile web app affords legacy carryover, you need to consider a native/hybrid app if you require access to device-specific features.
Outsource IT Infrastructure to Improve System Availability, Reliability, and Recovery
There are very few IT infrastructure components you should be housing internally – outsource everything else.
Develop a Comprehensive Business-to-Business Integration Strategy
Strong partnerships require seamless integration; don’t let lagging integration capabilities undermine your B2B relationships.
Develop an iGaming Strategy
Let the games begin: build an iGaming strategy that will keep patrons hooked and attract new business.
Use Multi-Factor Authentication to Save Costs and Secure Users
There are no barriers to implementing MFA, no matter what your requirements are.
Outsource Systems Management to Improve Capabilities and Reduce Costs
Outsourcing is like a marriage. Treat it like a partnership, not a competition.
Optimize the Application Maintenance Estimation (AME) Process
Augment your traditional expert estimation with parametric estimation to reduce surprises.
Establish a Right-Sized Release and Deployment Management Process
Improve the speed and success rate of your deployments.
Develop a Business Intelligence Tool Strategy
Improve business decision making and minimize cost by selecting only the most important BI capabilities.
Select and Implement an Email Security Gateway
The emails you want are only the tip of the iceberg compared to what you get.
Choose the Right Tools for Big Data Development
Leverage Hadoop as your pilot project to gain organizational buy-in and build institutional learning.
Develop an IT Strategy to Support Customer Service
IT can help pave the way for a Customer Service transformation.
Optimize Systems Management to Improve IT Resilience and Proactivity
Streamline processes, use tools with purpose, and continually look for opportunities to improve.
Implement Systems Management to Improve Availability and Visibility
Without sound systems management practices, you don’t control outages, they control you.
Vendor Landscape: Email Security Gateway
The emails that you want are only the tip of the iceberg that you get.
Mobilize the Workforce by Mobilizing ERP
Mobility isn’t about shiny new toys, it’s about empowering your workforce.
Implement a Mobility Strategy with Enterprise Mobility Management
Mobile device management only scratches the surface. Dive into enterprise mobility management to go beyond devices and manage every aspect of mobility.
Implement an Email and Content Archive Solution
Match the value of the storage to the value of your content.
Optimize Business Processes to Limit ERP Customization
Identify the best targets for process optimization and focus on configuration. Just say “no” to everything else.
Secure Critical Systems and Intellectual Property Against APT
Protect yourself from being boarded and raided by cyber privateers.
Optimize an Enterprise Collaboration Strategy
Make sure IT is an enabler – not an impediment – to effective employee collaboration.
Create a Customized Big Data Architecture and Implementation Plan
Big data architecture is not your father’s data architecture.
Create a Game Plan to Implement Cloud Backup the Right Way
Optimize your backup initiative and mitigate the challenges of the cloud.
Lead a Digital Transformation to Advance Revenue Generation
Create a strategic IT-enabled roadmap that uses social, mobile, and analytics to improve marketing, sales, and customer service.
Build an Application Integration Strategy
Level the table before assembling the application integration puzzle or risk losing pieces.
Get Ready for the Evolution of Vendor Management
VM needs to advance to cope with the evolving and changing business/IT environment.
