Tuesday | 14 October, 2008
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Running an Effective Teleconference or Virtual Meeting 18 February, 2008 11:13:21
Virtual teams are becoming commonplace, but the old rules for running a meeting don't necessarily apply. Managers need to learn new skills to keep people engaged and to use the time (and technology) effectively. These tips will make your next remote meeting a successMeetings are hard enough to run when the participants are all in the same room, fighting over the last chocolate doughnut. But any meeting you call, nowadays, probably has at least one person attending who works in a remote location. In some cases, everyone in the teleconference is dialing in. You may be great at orchestrating an in-person meeting, but running an effective teleconference requires new skills. - +
Police tech: How cops use IT to catch bad guys 12 February, 2008 08:01:31
In the US, police demonstrate how they use high-tech gear to fight crime and promote public safetyEver wonder what that cop is doing in his cruiser that's parked behind your car with lights flashing -- while your heart is pounding and you're searching for your license and registration? - +
What Price Innovation? 05 November, 2007 13:44:31
CIOs say they want more than the traditional “your mess for less” relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn’t it happening?CIOs say they want more than the traditional "your mess for less" relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn't it happening? - +
9 Ways to Avoid Outsourcing Failure 05 July, 2007 09:52:32
A three-part approach to maximizing the value of an IT outsourcing dealHow often do IT oursourcing deals fail? The numbers vary depending on which study is cited and what definition of failure is used - +
Extreme Outsourcing 28 June, 2007 10:10:12
The days of lump-sum outsourcing deals and blunt offshore labour arbitrage are gone. The future is about disaggregating IT processes — and then figuring who is best equipped to handle them and where they are located. Here’s how to do it rightNandan Nilekani, CEO of the outsourcing firm Infosys and the man who inspired the phrase "the world is flat", is pushing a new mantra that could become just as universal: "Work will be done where it makes the most sense." - +
Execs List Hurdles to Offshore Development 13 June, 2007 10:54:56
Many companies struggle to decide when to send a project to offshore developers. New projects can be more difficult to manage, while sending mature software for updates could adversely impact qualityCompanies face significant challenges when outsourcing development work offshore. For example, they must ensure that the offshore workers possess adequate technical skills, that outsourcing firms retain qualified workers, and that projects sent overseas present minimal risk to the organization, according to a panel of experts at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2007 in the US - +
Indian CIOs Have to Offshore Work, Says Gartner 13 June, 2007 11:15:37
Demand for skilled IT personnel from initiatives like the Indian government's e-governance program (NEGP), as well as resource-hungry Indian offshore service providers, are outstripping local supply, according to GartnerIt may now be the turn of Indian companies to offshore their IT services requirements. Indian CIOs will have to consider outsourcing offshore because of a shortage of IT skills in the country and inadequate services standards of local service providers, according to research firm Gartner. - +
Outsourcing Critical to Corporate Strategies 01 June, 2007 12:44:03
The survey "Outsourcing comes of age: the rise of collaborative partnering" also revealed that executives increasingly are willing to outsource functions considered core to the businessA recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers says a majority of senior operating executives will continue to outsource IT, HR and R&D functions, demonstrating that outsourcing remains a top strategy among companies looking to lower costs and optimize services - +
Offshoring Isn't Just About the Money, Survey Suggests 14 May, 2007 10:46:49
What you'll find is that in order for things to move [offshore] effectively, nobody hands it all over. If you do that, you're in for a world of painProjected cost savings are almost always the key draw when companies consider sending some of their IT and business operations offshore. But performance gains can be a benefit of sending work overseas as well - as long as they are planned for from the start and built into contracts. - +
Outsourcing Contracts Require Changes 04 May, 2007 15:02:41
A survey revealed that more than 80 percent of public sector respondents had found it necessary to amend outsourcing contracts after they had started in order to achieve the desired outcomes.Four out of five public sector outsourcing contracts have to be renegotiated, research by management consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers has found. - +
Study Says CEOs Sending More Jobs Overseas 03 May, 2007 10:43:34
When it comes to talent, supply and demand are out of balance, making employees more like consumers.Close to half of the 500 fastest-growing North American companies use offshore services and another 55 percent intend to send work overseas in the next five years as CEOs cite hiring and keeping qualified employees as their biggest operational challenge, according to a survey released by Deloitte.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Cutting Through the Spin of Recent Vulnerability Disclosures 13 October, 2008 10:53:00
The FUD surrounding the ClickJacking and TCP/IP vulnerabilities has the world seemingly frozen in fear. But once you cut through the spin, the vulnerabilities aren't all that they were made out to be.There are a few highly publicised vulnerabilities at the moment which haven't completely been disclosed and which, it is claimed, could threaten the whole Internet as-we-know-it. Only, when the vulnerabilities are finally disclosed, it seems that the whole incident has been somewhat Chicken Little. - +
PCI app security: Who's guarding the data bank? 13 October, 2008 11:09:00
Compliance strategies for PCI's new application security requirementsWhile Willy Sutton never really said it, the truth is that people rob banks because that is where the money is. Today's criminals don't walk into banks with loaded guns and get-away drivers. Rather they connect from a remote location using a browser and are armed with hacking tools and spyware. - +
Data-center security tools to not overlook 10 October, 2008 11:37:00
With the rise of security suites, it's time to consider some emerging security tools and rethink othersProtecting a corporate data center is like trying to keep an elephant safe from a swarm of flies. Despite your best efforts, bites happen. As the staples of security -- such as firewalls, antivirus software, spam and spyware filters -- come together in suites of products that allow for sophisticated management, there are other security tools either emerging or worth a rethink. - +
IBM, Secret Service, others study identity/cybercrime issues 09 October, 2008 10:09:00
Center for Applied Identity Management Research organization teams experts in criminal justice, financial crime, biometrics, cybercrime and cyberdefense, data protection, homeland security and national defense.IBM, LexisNexis and the Secret Service are among a group of corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that has formed to study and help solve identity management challenges around cybercrime, terrorism and narcotics trafficking. - +
Strange account management at Amazon 09 October, 2008 09:51:00
A careless login led to the discovery of some strange ccount management practices at one of the Internet's largest retailers.Via the RISKS mailing list comes an interesting tale of poor online account management at a major online retailer. According to Graham Bennett, accounts with Amazon display an odd behaviour that doesn't seem to have attracted much attention in the past.
NetStar Networks Calls Brisbane Home 13 October, 2008 12:01:00
New Verizon Business Managed Service Makes Collaboration Easier 13 October, 2008 10:06:00
F-Secure achieves excellent results in Internet security suite comparison 10 October, 2008 14:37:00
Lock It Up With Maxtor BlackArmour, Hardware Encrypted Storage Provides Government Grade Security For Consumers 10 October, 2008 09:04:00
Pitney Bowes MapInfo Launches New Version of AnySite 10 October, 2008 05:58:00
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