Technology/Information Technology

October 2009

Transformative IT Cost Strategies for Hard Times

The usual pattern during economic downturns is to slash budgets and focus available spending and resources on maintaining availability, security and application functionality.
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June 2009

Meeting the Mandate for Global IT

CIOs are under more pressure to control costs, recruit the best talent and serve both the company and its customers.
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June 2009

Everything Elastic

What if your business processes and capabilities were in essence elastic, able to stretch, change and expand at will?
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Business Analysis & Insight

How to Close the CIO Leadership Credibility Gap (September 2006)

Driving the Full Business Value of Mergers and Acquisitions through Better IT Due Diligence (June 2006)

Understanding the Cost of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance (January 2006)

IT-driven Productivity—Is the Verdict Finally in on the Value of IT on Productivity and High Performance? (October 2004)

Beyond Benchmarking: The Role of IT Diagnostics in High-performance Businesses (May 2004)

Four High-performance Opportunities for CIOs (February 2004)

Connecting Information Technology to the Business (2000)

Business Intelligence

Rethinking Warranty Management to Achieve High Performance and Differentiation (December 2005)

Patient Power (October 2005)

From Data to Decision (June 2005)

Beyond Data Warehousing: New Applications Turn Information into Profitable Insights (May 2005)

Integration: Beyond Data and Applications (May 2004)

New, Rigorous Approaches to Quantifying Marketing’s Value (May 2003)

Web Services: Universal Integration Powers Seamless, Long Sought After Business Services (April 2003)

Enterprise Solutions: Get With the Program (July 2002)

Unlocking Value through Customer Insight (2001)

Disaster Recovery

IT Disaster: It's Not a Matter of If—It's a Matter of When (January 2008)

IT Governance

Nordic Companies Seek Stronger Governance to Drive IT Productivity (March 2006)

Is There a Smarter Way to Approach IT Governance? (February 2005)

IT Strategy

Planning an Effective High-speed Broadband Deployment (October 2009)

Transformative IT Cost Strategies for Hard Times (October 2009)

Why Is My CEO Ambivalent about IT? (September 2008)

Eight Trends that are Redefining IT (September 2007)

SOA: Tailwind for IT Investments (May 2007)

Using Enterprise Systems to Gain Uncommon Competitive Advantage (January 2007)

Digital Myopia—Are You Missing The Internet Upside? (September 2006)

IT Consolidation and the Bottom Line (October 2005)

Reconcilable Differences: IT and Post-merger Integration (June 2005)

Managing the IT Lifecycle (October 2004)

Why IT Means Business at General Motors (October 2004)

Value Discovery: A Better Way to Prioritize IT Investments (October 2003)

Information Technology: Thinking Bigger (May 2003)

From Pre-Deal to All Systems Go: Eight Practical IT Integration Imperatives to Help Drive M&A Success (May 2002)

Too Big to Fail? (January 2000)

Post-Merger Information Technology Integration: Steering a Smooth Course through Rough Waters

IT Transformation

KLM's IT Makeover (September 2008)

The Democratization of IT (June 2005)

Transforming the IT Workforce (June 2004)

The Unfinished Revolution (2000)

The End of Innovation? (1999)

The 21st Century Classroom

Mobile Technology

Thinking Big About Mobile Widgets (July 2008)

Eight Trends to Watch in Mobile Computing (June 2008)

The Service Delivery Platform Is Dead. Long live SDP 2.0! (May 2008)

The Business of Privacy: Managing Privacy Issues Rationally, Proactively and Sensitively (August 2002)

Why Wireless Instant Messaging May Be the Key to Migrating Mobile Customers to 3G Services (May 2002)

The Era of Wireless Entertainment has Begun (March 2002)

Fortune Favors the Innovative: How New Forms of e-Commerce Will Transform the Business Landscape (January 2002)

Why Telematics is Moving into the Realm of Transforming Technologies (January 2002)

Asia: The East is Wireless (January 2001)

Mobile Commerce: Cutting Loose (January 2001)

Sonera Goes Global (2001)

A Wireless World: The Internet Sheds Its Chains (2001)

Are Technical Challenges Holding Back Your Wireless Strategy? (2001)

Beyond the Ultimate Device: from "Anytime, Anywhere" to "Always and Everywhere" (2001)

From "Killer App" to "Killer Process": Achieving mCommerce Success through Strong Customer Relationships (2001)

Seven Myths about Japanese mCommerce (2001)

So You Want to Go Mobile: What All Potential Wireless Vendors Should Know about Site Design (2001)

Will Trends in the Wireless World Take Your Business by Surprise? (2001)

A wake-up call (2000)

On the Edge

Everything Elastic (June 2009)

This Time, It’s Personal . . . and Mobile (January 2009)

Why Is My CEO Ambivalent about IT? (September 2008)

Not Your Father's Collaboration (January 2008)

Virtual Worlds, Real Business? (September 2007)

Think the Internet has Nothing New to Offer? Think Again. (May 2007)

Model-Centricity: High Performance through Software Engineering (January 2007)

Rich Internet Applications: Enabling the Next-generation Web (September 2006)

Can Ultrawideband Deliver on its Promises? (May 2006)

Moore's Law, the Sequel (January 2006)

The Democratization of IT (June 2005)

Standards—The One-word Oxymoron (February 2005)

Whatever Happened to the Shorter Workweek? (October 2004 )

No “Next Big Thing” for Technology? Think Again. (February 2004)

Operating Models

Meeting the Mandate for Global IT (June 2009)

RFID

Virtual Vineyard (October 2004)

Breaking Away: Creating Business Value through Information Technology (May 2004)

Innovation: Bold New World (May 2004)

Integration: Beyond Data and Applications (May 2004)

The Economic Value of Trust (October 2003)

Enterprise Solutions Mean Always Having New Opportunities to Add Value (August 2003)

Reality Online: The Decision Maker: Functioning in Current Time (September 2002)

Reality Online: The Technologies: The World on the Head of a Pin (September 2002)

Getting Value from Silent Commerce Today (August 2001)

Security Solutions

Breaking Away: Creating Business Value through Information Technology (May 2004)

Infrastructure: Consolidate, Standardize, Streamline (May 2004)

Promontory Interfinancial Network (October 2003)

Igniting the Next Broadband Revolution (January 2003)

How Web Services Will Redefine the Service Economy (July 2002)

Fish and Chips (January 2002)

The Promise of eGovernment (January 2002)

Owning the Transaction: Who will Deliver the Digital Cash Society? (August 2001)

Can Exostar Transform the Aerospace Industry? (2001)

iService: The Competitive Edge for Financial Service Providers (2001)

The More Things Change: Operational Excellence Still Essential, Regardless of Channel (2001)

Service-Oriented Architecture

SOA: Tailwind for IT Investments (May 2007)

Software

Adobe's Acrobat (January 2007)

Sustainability

The Business Case for a Greener IT Agenda (May 2008)

Systems Integration

IT Consolidation and the Bottom Line (October 2005)

The Power of Predictive Insight (October 2005)

Ten Ways to Use Enterprise Solutions to Achieve Higher Performance Levels (March 2004)

Enterprise Solutions Mean Always Having New Opportunities to Add Value (August 2003)

Enterprise Solutions: Achieving the Vision and the Value (March 2003)

Enterprise Solutions: Get With the Program (July 2002)

Technology

Helping Consumers Manage Their Digital Homes: The Importance of Premium Technical Services (July 2008)

China: Getting IT Right the First Time (May 2006)

You Say “Convergence”; We Say “Trivergence” (October 2005)

European Telecoms: Reaping IT Synergies for High Performance (May 2005)

High-tech Tax Man (February 2005)

Standards—The One-word Oxymoron (February 2005)

Fast-improving Speech Recognition Technology Pushes Dramatic Business Innovations (July 2004)

Paradox Lost (June 2004)

Back to Systems Delivery Basics with Five Methodology Imperatives (April 2004)

Avoiding the Austerity Trap (February 2004)

A Bold Experiment at Banco Azteca (May 2003)

Who Needs Information Design? (2001)

The next computing wave: Gift or Pandora's box? (1999)

Workforce Capabilities

Does Your Company Have an IT Generation Gap? (January 2009)

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