Categories: Amplifying the Enterprise, amplify, 2012 planning, 2012, Strategic planning, Strategy and Planning, Tools, Tools, IT and Business, Strategy, Strategy
A tool for assessing technology's amplification of your strategy
by Mark P. McDonald | February 8th, 2012 | 56 comments
Amplifying the enterprise is the theme for this year’s CIO agenda reflecting the expanding role of technology in the enterprise and its role in raising the power of enterprise strategies and performance. The notion of technology as an enterprise amplifier goes beyond traditional notions of IT and the administration/automation of...
Leveraging Business Rules for Revenue Generation: Success Snippet
by Jim Sinur | February 6th, 2012 | 9 comments
This situation is where a company employed policies/rules to identify and execute on cross-selling opportunities in a dynamic manner. This organization provides connected software applications to the financial services industry for lending, collection, recovery, and sales/service. Today, nearly 500 financial institutions in all 50 states and all provinces of Canada...
Categories: Challenges, Technology, Success, Innovation, Visibility, symposium, Strategic Planning, Applications, business, Optimization, Optimization, BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Business Process Improvement, Process Improvement, Process Management, Decision Management, Business Rules, BPM
Cloud Security Monitoring: IaaS Conundrum
by Anton Chuvakin | February 7th, 2012 | no comments
As you learned from my previous posts related to security monitoring of public cloud assets, there are challenges related to monitoring data availability as well as data interpretation. IaaS environments – such as the well-known ecommerce-retailer-turned-cloud-provider as well as other cloud service providers (CSPs) - offer an interesting challenge that...
Categories: monitoring, cloud security, cloud, security monitoring, security, security
Prediction Provides Questions; Not Answers
by Rob Addy | February 6th, 2012 | no comments
December 2012 marks the end of a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Some believe this is because the world will end. Unix time ends on Tuesday, 19th January 2038. So assuming we are all still here next February, should we believe that the world will end in...
Categories: TRKFAM, Support Value Chain, Software Support, Hardware Maintenance, Support, Gartner Product Support Maturity Scale, Predictive, Processes and Methodologies, Support Technologies, Support Processes, Technologies Underpinning Support, Support Strategy
Email Overload Cannot be Solved by Changes to Just Email
by Craig Roth | February 7th, 2012 | 2 comments
Have you gotten any emails with this Email charter attached that points to “10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral”? I’ve seen a few examples, but the “email charter” is one of the better and more organized attempts I’ve seen. Unfortunately, these email etiquette screeds suffer from the problem that...
Categories: Information work, Attention Management
Big League Business Influence: The Super Bowl versus the Super PAC
by Doug Laney | February 6th, 2012 | 93 comments
Yesterday during the on-air buildup to the Super Bowl a reporter mentioned that over one billion people were expected to watch this year’s big game. It occurred to me how few of these individuals, including some Americans, fully understand what the Super Bowl really means. The next news story was...
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New Research Released -- SDLC Infrastructure
by Sean Kenefick | February 6th, 2012 | no comments
My research concerning the need for strong SDLC infrastructure has been released. Check it out here!
Here's a summary:
Increasing Agility Through Software Development Life Cycle Infrastructure
Every organization that creates software must ensure that the infrastructure supporting its development process is robust and applicable to the needs of the...
Categories: SDLC
Follow the bouncing blue ball for a lesson on the future of BYOD
by Jack Santos | February 1st, 2012 | no comments
I keep getting interesting stories from folks about the “Find My iPhone” app, so I thought I would add mine, and maybe extrapolate what I think the moral of the story is for Enterprise “Bring Your Own Device” strategies, and Mobile Device Management (MDM).
Recently my wife and I were...
Categories: Mobility, management, Managment, Cloud, management, culture, mobility, 3g, Wireless, Wireless, IT Governance, UI, consumerization
Managing E-Commerce through Mergers & Acquisitions
by Chris Fletcher | December 20th, 2011 | one comment
An October research note titled “M&A Activity Poses Risks and Benefits to Ecommerce Plans” gave clients a short list of mergers and acquisitions in the e-commerce sector over the prior 18 months. The note also gave clients a set of tactical guidelines to follow as they managed through vendor transitions...
Categories: Merger & Acquistiions; M&A; E-Commerce; CRM; Cloud; Mobile; Tablets, Uncategorized
Intrusion Prevention Systems? We Need Intrusion Resilient Systems
by Neil MacDonald | February 3rd, 2012 | no comments
I’ve blogged before about advanced threats that easily bypass our traditional protection mechanisms and reside undetected for extended periods of time on our systems.
On one of the panels I moderated on APTs, Dave Merkel from Mandiant put it best. “You are compromised, get over it”. Others in the US...
Categories: DevOpsSec, DC-Summit-NA, Context-aware Security, Security Intelligence, Cloud Security, Cloud, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Application Security, Application Security, Defense-in-Depth, Beyond Anti-Virus, Best Practices, Beyond Anti-Virus, Adaptive Security Infrastucture
Introducing the Pace Layered Application Strategy Special Report
by Dennis Gaughan | February 3rd, 2012 | 6 comments
Over the last 10 years (both with AMR Research and now Gartner), I have spoken to many application leaders about how to better manage their application portfolio. While some of their circumstances are different, there is always a lot in common across companies. They are dealing with a diverse portfolio...
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