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Don’t expect high marks in enabling business initiatives until your company gets its corporate strategy right. This note
was based in part from an interview with Norm Smallwood, CEO of Results-Based Leadership. (...)
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... corporate). Some support work may be shared across businesses (eg, Canon). ...
strategies. Information Technology Management Implications. ...
Published:
2000-04-10
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Manufacturers must constantly address how to increase customer satisfaction, identify supply chain issues before they become
problems, and lower production costs. In this podcast, Lyndsay Wise and Robert Abate discuss the benefits business intelligence
provides to help address these topics. (...)
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Manufacturers must constantly address how to increase customer satisfaction, identify supply chain issues before they become
problems, and lower p...
Published:
2007-08-08
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IT complexity drives cost and to a great extent, it is business management that drives IT complexity. Until IT architecture
and infrastructure are simplified and configured into an adaptable platform, system design and construction will be fraught
with wasteful work and non-essential components. (...)
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... must not just integrate the businesses, it must assimilate both operations and information
systems to ... would have to focus on technology and technologists ...
Published:
2002-07-25
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Read the first of a three-part series aimed at providing small and medium businesses (SMBs) with the necessary tools for cloud
asset implementation. Cloud computing is changing the scope of information technology (IT) management, and organizations
must be highly adaptable to safeguard the continuity of t (...)
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Read the first of a three-part series aimed at providing small and medium businesses (SMBs) with the necessary tools for cloud
asset implementation...
Published:
2011-02-03
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Moving to a performance-based service business model will have huge implications for the whole value chain. Its principle
is to manage for outcomes—procure performance rather than parts and people. It requires total business process reorientation
from services and maintenance through procurement techn (...)
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Moving to a performance-based service business model will have huge implications for the whole value chain. Its principle
is to manage for outcom...
Published:
2004-06-22
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Implementing information technology (IT) governance means using a structure of relationships and processes to direct an organization.
Some project portfolio management (PPM) vendors have adopted the IT governance mantra to differentiate their solutions from
those offered by the enterprise resource planni (...)
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Implementing information technology (IT) governance means using a structure of relationships and processes to direct an organization.
Some project...
Published:
2005-12-13
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With growing frequency, we hear business and IT managers asking a technology vendor to "justify the expenditure" or "demonstrate
the ROI" on their particular hardware, software or service offering. In some cases, this may be possible. (...)
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... initiative as context, it's then possible to find process improvements and information
technology can help deliver results. Successful businesses care about ...
Published:
2004-04-12
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To meet tough government compliance, more vendors are offering compliance solutions. CODA's collaborative task modeling tool
takes an enterprise's best practices model, audits business processes, automates data collection, and creates a secure collaborative
space to offer checks and balances to simplify (...)
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To meet tough government compliance, more vendors are offering compliance solutions. CODA's collaborative task modeling
tool takes an enterprise's...
Published:
2005-11-15
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As organizations prepare for their next ERP version upgrade, they find themselves trying to make sense of a new iteration
that disrupts the traditional understanding and thinking about ERP. ERP II requires organizations to transform from a focus
on internal resource optimization to a new focus on process (...)
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As organizations prepare for their next ERP version upgrade, they find themselves trying to make sense of a new iteration
that disrupts the tradit...
Published:
2004-06-18
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Food and beverage manufacturers rely on information technology to meet market demands. However, food is one market where
most enterprise applications show a number of "fatal flaws"—capabilities whose omission can impede operations to the extent
of complete failure. (...)
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Food and beverage manufacturers rely on information technology to meet market demands. However, food is one market where most
enterprise applicati...
Published:
2006-11-08
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Product lifecycle management (PLM) is set to transition to an on-demand model. On-demand models are quicker and cheaper to
deploy, but software providers must gain user enterprises' trust before on-demand PLM really takes off. (...)
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Product lifecycle management (PLM) is set to transition to an on-demand model. On-demand models are quicker and cheaper to
deploy, but software pr...
Published:
2006-03-06
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Supply Chain Management (SCM) once viewed as a way to obtain a competitive advantage, is now perceived as a logical and necessary
extension of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The reasons: First, traditional ERP systems lack the advanced planning
tools necessary for companies to respond to an increa (...)
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Supply Chain Management (SCM) once viewed as a way to obtain a competitive advantage, is now perceived as a logical and necessary
extension of Ent...
Published:
2002-12-28
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Product lifecycle management (PLM) is set to transition to an on-demand model. On-demand models are quicker and cheaper to
deploy, but software providers must gain user enterprises' trust before on-demand PLM really takes off. (...)
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Product lifecycle management (PLM) is set to transition to an on-demand model. On-demand models are quicker and cheaper to
deploy, but software pr...
Published:
2006-03-06
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In the battle between Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) and the UK-based the Sage Group for the small-to-medium enterprise
(SME) market segment, technology choices will be a major factor. (...)
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In the battle between Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) and the UK-based the Sage Group for the small-to-medium enterprise
(SME) market segment, ...
Published:
2005-08-27
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As reported on March 5 in The Dallas Morning News/KRTBN -- E-commerce may get all the attention, but information technology
experts say the demand for enterprise resource planning professionals is almost as hot. (...)
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As reported on March 5 in The Dallas Morning News/KRTBN -- E-commerce may get all the attention, but information technology
experts say the demand...
Published:
2000-04-19
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Enterprise software licensees do have a choice when it comes to software support and maintenance (S&M) providers, with several,
less expensive options existing for any company that is considering discontinuing S&M for an application product. (...)
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Enterprise software licensees do have a choice when it comes to software support and maintenance (S&M) providers, with
several, less expensive opt...
Published:
2007-04-04
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Get free enterprise resource planning (ERP) expert solutions for small businesses.You'll wonder how you ever managed without
it. If you’re a small business owner considering enterprise resource planning (ERP), you undoubtedly have numerous questions.
Should you choose an on-premise, on-demand, or open-s (...)
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Get free enterprise resource planning (ERP) expert solutions for small businesses.You'll wonder how you ever managed without
it. If you’re a small ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Small and medium enterprises (SME) looking for software must understand their needs and articulate their expectations to
get what they want and need from software. (...)
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Small and medium enterprises (SME) looking for software must understand their needs and articulate their expectations to get
what they want and ne...
Published:
2005-10-17
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The objectives of end-to-end supply chain visibility are better plans, better service, increased inventory turns, and higher
profit margins, where MBN might answer only some of these requirements at this stage. In any case, MBN is a great, initial
idea that can lay the foundations for a future product of (...)
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The objectives of end-to-end supply chain visibility are better plans, better service, increased inventory turns, and higher
profit margins, where...
Published:
2004-09-04
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Abstract:
To meet tough government compliance, more vendors are offering compliance solutions. CODA's collaborative task modeling tool
takes an enterprise's best practices model, audits business processes, automates data collection, and creates a secure collaborative
space to offer checks and balances to simplify (...)
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businesses information technology:
To meet tough government compliance, more vendors are offering compliance solutions. CODA's collaborative task modeling
tool takes an enterprise's...
Published:
2005-11-15