The document outlines HP's storage transformation lifecycle approach, which includes discovering issues, prioritizing initiatives, defining requirements, designing a future state architecture, creating a transformation blueprint, and executing the transformation. It emphasizes a collaborative process of analyzing the current state, aligning initiatives with strategies and goals, and ensuring designs meet clearly defined needs to enable successful storage transformations.
The Chief Skeptical Officer – A New C-Level RoleAlan McSweeney
The document discusses the role of a Chief Skeptical Officer, a new C-level position. The CSO would take an independent, evidence-based approach to ensure projects are properly defined, costs are accurately estimated, and promised benefits are actually delivered. The CSO protects against cognitive biases, strategic misrepresentation, and ensures discipline through practices like reference class forecasting and benefits management.
E-Business Suite 1 _ Dean Herback _ E-Business Suite Projects, vision, roadma...InSync2011
The document outlines Oracle's E-Business Projects vision and roadmap. It discusses Oracle's leadership in project portfolio management and how its E-Business Suite provides visibility and control for project-driven organizations across various industries. Recent enhancements to Oracle Projects include improved integration with third-party tools, enhanced reporting and analytics, and new resource management capabilities. The roadmap focuses on continued innovation to support the full project lifecycle.
The document discusses enterprise architecture and green enterprise architecture. It explains that green enterprise architecture aims to maximize returns while reducing costs and environmental impact through green-minded staff and green IT practices. The document also outlines some enterprise architecture frameworks like Zachman that can be used to develop a green enterprise architecture blueprint.
Professional Business Results & Selected Accomplishmentsmjleib
This slide show summarizes the professional results and accomplishments of Michael Jay Leib across management accountability, marketing leadership, and technology leadership. Some of the key accomplishments highlighted include redesigning and automating customer fulfillment processes, product turnarounds and restructurings, expanding business into new markets, special end-of-life product sales, acquisitions and integrations, increasing revenue and margins, and building out channel sales programs.
The document discusses project management best practices. It recommends:
1) Following standard procedures like planning, requirements management, and change control to improve chances of success.
2) Building a best practices library of methods from past projects and using tools to store and reuse artifacts and plans.
3) Referring to standards like PMBOK as guides but tailoring procedures based on each project's needs.
Enterprise architecture provides a structured way to define and manage an organization by depicting its current state and future vision. It aligns IT and business goals while managing complexity across the organization. Enterprise architecture is important because it supports decision making, budget prioritization, systems development, and delivering roadmaps for managing change by providing insight into the entire business and IT landscape.
The Chief Skeptical Officer – A New C-Level RoleAlan McSweeney
The document discusses the role of a Chief Skeptical Officer, a new C-level position. The CSO would take an independent, evidence-based approach to ensure projects are properly defined, costs are accurately estimated, and promised benefits are actually delivered. The CSO protects against cognitive biases, strategic misrepresentation, and ensures discipline through practices like reference class forecasting and benefits management.
E-Business Suite 1 _ Dean Herback _ E-Business Suite Projects, vision, roadma...InSync2011
The document outlines Oracle's E-Business Projects vision and roadmap. It discusses Oracle's leadership in project portfolio management and how its E-Business Suite provides visibility and control for project-driven organizations across various industries. Recent enhancements to Oracle Projects include improved integration with third-party tools, enhanced reporting and analytics, and new resource management capabilities. The roadmap focuses on continued innovation to support the full project lifecycle.
The document discusses enterprise architecture and green enterprise architecture. It explains that green enterprise architecture aims to maximize returns while reducing costs and environmental impact through green-minded staff and green IT practices. The document also outlines some enterprise architecture frameworks like Zachman that can be used to develop a green enterprise architecture blueprint.
Professional Business Results & Selected Accomplishmentsmjleib
This slide show summarizes the professional results and accomplishments of Michael Jay Leib across management accountability, marketing leadership, and technology leadership. Some of the key accomplishments highlighted include redesigning and automating customer fulfillment processes, product turnarounds and restructurings, expanding business into new markets, special end-of-life product sales, acquisitions and integrations, increasing revenue and margins, and building out channel sales programs.
The document discusses project management best practices. It recommends:
1) Following standard procedures like planning, requirements management, and change control to improve chances of success.
2) Building a best practices library of methods from past projects and using tools to store and reuse artifacts and plans.
3) Referring to standards like PMBOK as guides but tailoring procedures based on each project's needs.
Enterprise architecture provides a structured way to define and manage an organization by depicting its current state and future vision. It aligns IT and business goals while managing complexity across the organization. Enterprise architecture is important because it supports decision making, budget prioritization, systems development, and delivering roadmaps for managing change by providing insight into the entire business and IT landscape.
Solution Validation & Assessments - A practical ApproachJulen Mohanty
The document discusses solution assessment and validation techniques for business analysts. It outlines the importance of solution assessment and validation in the CMMI framework and lists key tasks business analysts perform in this area, such as developing alternative solutions, evaluating technology options, facilitating solution selection, and supporting implementation. The document also describes specific activities business analysts do in solution assessment, including ranking solution options, identifying additional capabilities, and evaluating technology options to ensure the selected solution fulfills requirements.
Integrate IT Strategic Planning with Performance MeasurementYan Zhao
This document discusses integrating IT strategic planning with performance measurement in the federal government. It proposes a full scope practice mechanism with comprehensive components, including: (1) an IT strategic planning structure and lifecycle model; (2) a performance measurement model with reference models, metrics, and tools; and (3) integrating strategic plans, tactical plans, and performance measurement to align initiatives and projects with strategic goals. The framework is intended to help agencies plan IT strategies, define goals and measures, collect performance data, and use results to improve over time.
This document discusses changes to NASA's business practices for managing projects, including adopting a new acquisition strategy approach and implementing planning, programming, and budget execution (PPBE). The new acquisition strategy involves additional approval meetings at the strategic planning and project levels to better integrate acquisition with strategic and budgetary planning. PPBE focuses on analyzing programs and infrastructure to align with strategic goals and answer whether proposed programs will help achieve NASA's mission. The document also notes improvements in funds distribution and inter-center transfers, reducing the time for these processes from several weeks to only a few days.
Projective - Business Architecture and Operational Excellencefrederikpaulus
1. The document discusses business architecture and operational excellence at a banking and finance seminar presented by Projective.
2. Projective focuses on project and program management for financial institutions and helps define target operating models that link business processes and underlying applications.
3. The presentation discusses how achieving operational excellence starts with detailing the target operating model, which defines how a company organizes itself through its process, organization, and information models.
The document provides an overview of IBM's new Rational Project and Portfolio Management solution, which includes Rational Insight for Performance Management, Rational Focal Point for Project and Program Management, and Rational Focal Point for Project Portfolio Management. The solutions are optimized for software and systems delivery projects and are integrated with each other and other Rational products. The talk presents the concepts underlying the solutions and gives an overview of each component.
Gestión de Gobierno, Riesgos y Reglamentaciones (GRC)Rafael Antona
SoftExpert GRC Suite - Gestión Gobierno, Riesgos y Reglamentaciones - ofrece una estructura del gobierno corporativo que posibilita la toma de decisiones eficaces y cambios de comportamiento organizacional Ofrece a la organización una implementación viable y eficiente del gobieno corporativo y de TI.
The Business of IT - Managing Performance by Implementing StrategyPaul Wohlleben
The above article was published in the February 2005 edition of FEDTECH Magazine. It provides my thoughts on how CIO's should measure performance, deliver results, and ensure accountability once strategy has been set. The article is one in the series I write entitled "The Business of IT."
Analysis of Critical Success Factors Relevance along SAP Implementation PhasesJose Esteves
This document analyzes the critical success factors (CSFs) for SAP implementations along different phases. It presents a unified model of CSFs, categorized as strategic and tactical perspectives. The document also maps CSFs to the phases and processes of the ASAP methodology. It describes using the Process Quality Management method to create a matrix of CSFs versus ASAP processes. The conclusion is that the study relates CSFs to implementation phases and ASAP processes, which previous studies had not done.
The document discusses how configuration management (CM) helps projects innovate and communicate. It compares project management and CM processes, and describes traditional CM versus CM II approaches. It also outlines two project management models - Kepner-Tregoe and Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. CM expands on these models by managing both requirements definition and physical project tasks in synchronized cycles. The document argues that CM helps address common problems that cause project failures, such as poor communication, requirements, documentation, and change control. CM is positioned to support the entire project management process.
Optimising and prioritising your SDLC using business intelligenceKurt Solarte
This document discusses optimizing and prioritizing a software development lifecycle (SDLC) using business intelligence. It covers the importance of metrics for managing the SDLC, types of metrics that can be collected at different stages, and how Rational tools can be used to capture and report on metrics and indicators of SDLC health. The presentation aims to help understand how measured process improvement can drive business innovation and reduce costs.
This document provides an overview of an approach for right sizing design review plans for projects and programs. It discusses establishing a multi-tiered review approach including technical and peer reviews of lower-level design products, component design reviews, subsystem design reviews, and system-level reviews. It emphasizes the importance of planning the review approach, defining objectives and participation for each review level, and using lessons learned to improve efficiency while maintaining thoroughness.
This document discusses architecture governance based on the TOGAF framework. It defines governance as ensuring things are done according to guidelines and objectives. Architecture governance specifically manages enterprise architectures at the organizational level, providing services to facilitate innovation while adhering to guidelines. The TOGAF framework covers governance areas like compliance management. It identifies governance roles in the ADM phases and defines a meta model. COBIT can also be integrated to assess architecture compliance with corporate policies and strategies. Without governance, risks increase that solutions may not meet requirements.
A Framework For Successful Mro Software MergeimplementationEnvelopeAPM Inc.
WHITE PAPER: A DISCUSSION ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Implementing of any new software package will always throw up challenges. However,
most situations can be dealt with in the normal course of the project as long as there is
a sound project management plan in place which will also ensure that the project has
clear objectives against which progress can be measured.
Wes Parfitt, CEO and Founder, EnvelopeAPM Inc.
A discussion on Project Management
Wes Parfitt, CEO and Founder of EnvelopeAPM Inc, outlines a framework for successful MRO software implementation.
EnvelopeAPM Inc, www.envelopeAPM.com,Wes Parfitt, Wesley Parfitt
The document discusses establishing a performance measurement baseline (PMB) in a cost effective manner. It defines key Earned Value Management (EVM) concepts like the PMB, which is a time-phased budget plan used to measure contract performance. It emphasizes the importance of thorough upfront planning, including developing a work breakdown structure (WBS) and schedule to fully capture the work scope. Establishing the PMB is a three-step process of defining the work, scheduling it, and allocating budgets to control accounts and work packages.
PPM Challenge #4: Improving PPM Maturity – 2012 PPM Challenge and Opportunity...EPM Live
This document discusses improving project and portfolio management (PPM) maturity. It begins by recapping previous challenges around prioritizing demand, project communication and reporting, and providing value at different levels. It then introduces challenge #4 as improving PPM maturity across the organization. The document discusses establishing a plan to benchmark effectiveness and move up in common PPM maturity models. Finally, it provides an overview of key dimensions to consider at each maturity level, including people, processes, technology, financial management, and relationships.
Transcending Enterprise Boundaries: IT consolidation in an M&A deal, By Salil...HCL Infosystems
This document discusses the importance of IT in mergers and acquisitions. IT integration poses significant challenges and is one of the top integration risks. IT involvement is important throughout the deal cycle from due diligence to post-merger integration to identify challenges, risks, and opportunities for cost savings and synergies. The role of the CIO is also key to managing IT integration and ensuring business and IT objectives are aligned. CIOs must have strong business, technical, program management, and people skills to lead the IT integration effort.
NASA's IT infrastructure requires significant changes to improve security, enable collaboration across centers, and reduce costs. The key initiatives include consolidating networks, applications, and data centers; establishing governance and financial controls; and defining core IT services delivered by the CIO. This transformation will improve integration and security while achieving efficiencies to better support NASA's mission.
The document provides information about using customer journey maps. It begins with housekeeping notes and an agenda. It then discusses what makes an effective journey map, including that they visualize actions, thoughts, and feelings over time. There are four types of maps that can be created: current state, future state, blueprint, and day in the life. Ten ways to use journey maps are identified, such as improving the current experience, envisioning the future experience, driving organizational change, and communicating with customers. The presentation encourages determining the business objective and appropriate map type to create.
This document summarizes a study of CEO succession events among the largest 100 U.S. corporations between 2005-2015. The study analyzed executives who were passed over for the CEO role ("succession losers") and their subsequent careers. It found that 74% of passed over executives left their companies, with 30% eventually becoming CEOs elsewhere. However, companies led by succession losers saw average stock price declines of 13% over 3 years, compared to gains for companies whose CEO selections remained unchanged. The findings suggest that boards generally identify the most qualified CEO candidates, though differences between internal and external hires complicate comparisons.
Solution Validation & Assessments - A practical ApproachJulen Mohanty
The document discusses solution assessment and validation techniques for business analysts. It outlines the importance of solution assessment and validation in the CMMI framework and lists key tasks business analysts perform in this area, such as developing alternative solutions, evaluating technology options, facilitating solution selection, and supporting implementation. The document also describes specific activities business analysts do in solution assessment, including ranking solution options, identifying additional capabilities, and evaluating technology options to ensure the selected solution fulfills requirements.
Integrate IT Strategic Planning with Performance MeasurementYan Zhao
This document discusses integrating IT strategic planning with performance measurement in the federal government. It proposes a full scope practice mechanism with comprehensive components, including: (1) an IT strategic planning structure and lifecycle model; (2) a performance measurement model with reference models, metrics, and tools; and (3) integrating strategic plans, tactical plans, and performance measurement to align initiatives and projects with strategic goals. The framework is intended to help agencies plan IT strategies, define goals and measures, collect performance data, and use results to improve over time.
This document discusses changes to NASA's business practices for managing projects, including adopting a new acquisition strategy approach and implementing planning, programming, and budget execution (PPBE). The new acquisition strategy involves additional approval meetings at the strategic planning and project levels to better integrate acquisition with strategic and budgetary planning. PPBE focuses on analyzing programs and infrastructure to align with strategic goals and answer whether proposed programs will help achieve NASA's mission. The document also notes improvements in funds distribution and inter-center transfers, reducing the time for these processes from several weeks to only a few days.
Projective - Business Architecture and Operational Excellencefrederikpaulus
1. The document discusses business architecture and operational excellence at a banking and finance seminar presented by Projective.
2. Projective focuses on project and program management for financial institutions and helps define target operating models that link business processes and underlying applications.
3. The presentation discusses how achieving operational excellence starts with detailing the target operating model, which defines how a company organizes itself through its process, organization, and information models.
The document provides an overview of IBM's new Rational Project and Portfolio Management solution, which includes Rational Insight for Performance Management, Rational Focal Point for Project and Program Management, and Rational Focal Point for Project Portfolio Management. The solutions are optimized for software and systems delivery projects and are integrated with each other and other Rational products. The talk presents the concepts underlying the solutions and gives an overview of each component.
Gestión de Gobierno, Riesgos y Reglamentaciones (GRC)Rafael Antona
SoftExpert GRC Suite - Gestión Gobierno, Riesgos y Reglamentaciones - ofrece una estructura del gobierno corporativo que posibilita la toma de decisiones eficaces y cambios de comportamiento organizacional Ofrece a la organización una implementación viable y eficiente del gobieno corporativo y de TI.
The Business of IT - Managing Performance by Implementing StrategyPaul Wohlleben
The above article was published in the February 2005 edition of FEDTECH Magazine. It provides my thoughts on how CIO's should measure performance, deliver results, and ensure accountability once strategy has been set. The article is one in the series I write entitled "The Business of IT."
Analysis of Critical Success Factors Relevance along SAP Implementation PhasesJose Esteves
This document analyzes the critical success factors (CSFs) for SAP implementations along different phases. It presents a unified model of CSFs, categorized as strategic and tactical perspectives. The document also maps CSFs to the phases and processes of the ASAP methodology. It describes using the Process Quality Management method to create a matrix of CSFs versus ASAP processes. The conclusion is that the study relates CSFs to implementation phases and ASAP processes, which previous studies had not done.
The document discusses how configuration management (CM) helps projects innovate and communicate. It compares project management and CM processes, and describes traditional CM versus CM II approaches. It also outlines two project management models - Kepner-Tregoe and Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. CM expands on these models by managing both requirements definition and physical project tasks in synchronized cycles. The document argues that CM helps address common problems that cause project failures, such as poor communication, requirements, documentation, and change control. CM is positioned to support the entire project management process.
Optimising and prioritising your SDLC using business intelligenceKurt Solarte
This document discusses optimizing and prioritizing a software development lifecycle (SDLC) using business intelligence. It covers the importance of metrics for managing the SDLC, types of metrics that can be collected at different stages, and how Rational tools can be used to capture and report on metrics and indicators of SDLC health. The presentation aims to help understand how measured process improvement can drive business innovation and reduce costs.
This document provides an overview of an approach for right sizing design review plans for projects and programs. It discusses establishing a multi-tiered review approach including technical and peer reviews of lower-level design products, component design reviews, subsystem design reviews, and system-level reviews. It emphasizes the importance of planning the review approach, defining objectives and participation for each review level, and using lessons learned to improve efficiency while maintaining thoroughness.
This document discusses architecture governance based on the TOGAF framework. It defines governance as ensuring things are done according to guidelines and objectives. Architecture governance specifically manages enterprise architectures at the organizational level, providing services to facilitate innovation while adhering to guidelines. The TOGAF framework covers governance areas like compliance management. It identifies governance roles in the ADM phases and defines a meta model. COBIT can also be integrated to assess architecture compliance with corporate policies and strategies. Without governance, risks increase that solutions may not meet requirements.
A Framework For Successful Mro Software MergeimplementationEnvelopeAPM Inc.
WHITE PAPER: A DISCUSSION ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Implementing of any new software package will always throw up challenges. However,
most situations can be dealt with in the normal course of the project as long as there is
a sound project management plan in place which will also ensure that the project has
clear objectives against which progress can be measured.
Wes Parfitt, CEO and Founder, EnvelopeAPM Inc.
A discussion on Project Management
Wes Parfitt, CEO and Founder of EnvelopeAPM Inc, outlines a framework for successful MRO software implementation.
EnvelopeAPM Inc, www.envelopeAPM.com,Wes Parfitt, Wesley Parfitt
The document discusses establishing a performance measurement baseline (PMB) in a cost effective manner. It defines key Earned Value Management (EVM) concepts like the PMB, which is a time-phased budget plan used to measure contract performance. It emphasizes the importance of thorough upfront planning, including developing a work breakdown structure (WBS) and schedule to fully capture the work scope. Establishing the PMB is a three-step process of defining the work, scheduling it, and allocating budgets to control accounts and work packages.
PPM Challenge #4: Improving PPM Maturity – 2012 PPM Challenge and Opportunity...EPM Live
This document discusses improving project and portfolio management (PPM) maturity. It begins by recapping previous challenges around prioritizing demand, project communication and reporting, and providing value at different levels. It then introduces challenge #4 as improving PPM maturity across the organization. The document discusses establishing a plan to benchmark effectiveness and move up in common PPM maturity models. Finally, it provides an overview of key dimensions to consider at each maturity level, including people, processes, technology, financial management, and relationships.
Transcending Enterprise Boundaries: IT consolidation in an M&A deal, By Salil...HCL Infosystems
This document discusses the importance of IT in mergers and acquisitions. IT integration poses significant challenges and is one of the top integration risks. IT involvement is important throughout the deal cycle from due diligence to post-merger integration to identify challenges, risks, and opportunities for cost savings and synergies. The role of the CIO is also key to managing IT integration and ensuring business and IT objectives are aligned. CIOs must have strong business, technical, program management, and people skills to lead the IT integration effort.
NASA's IT infrastructure requires significant changes to improve security, enable collaboration across centers, and reduce costs. The key initiatives include consolidating networks, applications, and data centers; establishing governance and financial controls; and defining core IT services delivered by the CIO. This transformation will improve integration and security while achieving efficiencies to better support NASA's mission.
The document provides information about using customer journey maps. It begins with housekeeping notes and an agenda. It then discusses what makes an effective journey map, including that they visualize actions, thoughts, and feelings over time. There are four types of maps that can be created: current state, future state, blueprint, and day in the life. Ten ways to use journey maps are identified, such as improving the current experience, envisioning the future experience, driving organizational change, and communicating with customers. The presentation encourages determining the business objective and appropriate map type to create.
This document summarizes a study of CEO succession events among the largest 100 U.S. corporations between 2005-2015. The study analyzed executives who were passed over for the CEO role ("succession losers") and their subsequent careers. It found that 74% of passed over executives left their companies, with 30% eventually becoming CEOs elsewhere. However, companies led by succession losers saw average stock price declines of 13% over 3 years, compared to gains for companies whose CEO selections remained unchanged. The findings suggest that boards generally identify the most qualified CEO candidates, though differences between internal and external hires complicate comparisons.
The impact of innovation on travel and tourism industries (World Travel Marke...Brian Solis
From the impact of Pokemon Go on Silicon Valley to artificial intelligence, futurist Brian Solis talks to Mathew Parsons of World Travel Market about the future of travel, tourism and hospitality.
We’re all trying to find that idea or spark that will turn a good project into a great project. Creativity plays a huge role in the outcome of our work. Harnessing the power of collaboration and open source, we can make great strides towards excellence. Not just for designers, this talk can be applicable to many different roles – even development. In this talk, Seasoned Creative Director Sara Cannon is going to share some secrets about creative methodology, collaboration, and the strong role that open source can play in our work.
Reuters: Pictures of the Year 2016 (Part 2)maditabalnco
This document contains 20 photos from news events around the world between January and November 2016. The photos show international events like the US presidential election, the conflict in Ukraine, the migrant crisis in Europe, the Rio Olympics, and more. They also depict human interest stories and natural phenomena from various countries.
The Six Highest Performing B2B Blog Post FormatsBarry Feldman
If your B2B blogging goals include earning social media shares and backlinks to boost your search rankings, this infographic lists the size best approaches.
1) The document discusses the opportunity for technology to improve organizational efficiency and transition economies into a "smart and clean world."
2) It argues that aggregate efficiency has stalled at around 22% for 30 years due to limitations of the Second Industrial Revolution, but that digitizing transport, energy, and communication through technologies like blockchain can help manage resources and increase efficiency.
3) Technologies like precision agriculture, cloud computing, robotics, and autonomous vehicles may allow for "dematerialization" and do more with fewer physical resources through effects like reduced waste and need for transportation/logistics infrastructure.
Key Considerations for a Successful Hyperion Planning ImplementationAlithya
The document provides an overview and recommendations for a successful Hyperion Planning implementation. It discusses key project phases, recommended build techniques including application definition, dimensionality, master data integration, building the planning model, and form and calculation development. It also covers tips for planning design including delineating plan types, defining dimensionality, integrating master data from various sources, and best practices for building forms to ensure performance.
The document discusses business analysis and related topics:
- It defines business analysis as the set of tasks used to work with stakeholders to understand an organization's structure, policies, and operations in order to recommend solutions that help the organization achieve its goals.
- Key aspects of business analysis include standardization through frameworks like BABOK, as well as adaptability to different organizational contexts and changes.
- Business analysis plays a role throughout a project life cycle from planning and requirements gathering to solution design, development, and post-project operations and maintenance.
Transformational change can be viewed from an organizational or personal perspective. Organizationally, it requires clear strategic imperatives, top leadership support, project management structures, and decisions around structural, personnel, and cultural issues. Personally, it requires clarity on why change is needed, understanding one's attitude to change, and commitment to a behavioral roadmap.
The key to organizational transformation is a thorough, consistent process that recognizes both organizational and personal aspects of change management. This involves top management support, treating change as a key project, understanding the current culture and business drivers, developing a behavioral change roadmap, and active communications.
The change process follows phases with organizational and personal emphases. The organizational phase includes planning
Integrating It Frameworks, Methodologies And Best Practices Into It Delivery ...Alan McSweeney
The document proposes an integrated IT solution and operations management approach consisting of two pillars: 1) Architecture and Realisation, which is concerned with enterprise vision, strategy, architecture, implementation and operation. 2) Management and Processes, which addresses management of initiatives, programmes, projects and associated processes. It suggests grouping relevant frameworks under these pillars to provide guidance on core functions. Frameworks can help organizations quickly develop core competencies across functions like quality management, resource management, and financial management.
Prosci provides various products and toolkits to support business process reengineering and change management projects. Their products are based on research with over 1000 organizations and provide templates, guidelines and best practices. Their change management toolkit in particular contains templates and guidelines to help create an effective change management plan and strategy. It utilizes their proven change management methodology and process. Their products aim to help projects better plan change management upfront and avoid common pitfalls in order to increase the success of business process change initiatives.
SAP CVN Supply Network Planning - Supply Planning Engine SelectionPlan4Demand
This document summarizes a presentation on supply chain planning given by Plan4Demand Solutions. The presentation covered challenges with supply planning, tools for optimization, and questions. It discussed Plan4Demand's consulting services in supply chain planning areas like demand forecasting and inventory optimization. The presentation also covered supply planning engine selection, change management, and challenges with aligning supply network planning results to master data.
The document discusses best practices for product design and development. It outlines key aspects of the process including identifying customer needs, establishing target specifications, concept generation, concept selection, concept testing, and setting final specifications. It also describes an evaluation framework that allows companies to compare their performance to industry benchmarks and best practices. The framework is used to develop an improvement plan by assessing a company's current situation, identifying gaps compared to best practices, and determining priorities based on business strategy and best practices.
Daugherty is a management and IT consulting firm that provides full-lifecycle consulting services including strategy, development, and outsourcing of technology solutions. They have over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies. Daugherty has 5 regional offices across the US and over 700 long-term employees. They specialize in custom solutions, business intelligence, mobile computing, and general management consulting. Daugherty provides a local alternative to large national consulting firms with more cost-efficient and pragmatic results.
Assure the best possible return on your investment with assistance in developing your IT Governance strategy with the experienced professionals at Checkpoint Partners
The Key Role of Business Analysis in Project Success and Achieving Business V...Alan McSweeney
Business analysis plays a key role in ensuring project success and delivering business value. Effective business analysis includes defining business needs, capturing requirements, and ensuring solution designs meet requirements. Weak business analysis is a leading cause of project failures, as solutions may not satisfy business needs. Throughout a solution's lifecycle, from design to operation, ongoing requirements management by business analysts helps maximize business value.
Business analysis plays a key role in ensuring project success and delivering business value. Effective business analysis includes defining business needs, capturing requirements, and ensuring solution designs meet requirements. Weak business analysis is a leading cause of project failures, as solutions may not satisfy business needs. Throughout a solution's lifecycle, from design to operation, ongoing requirements management by business analysts helps maximize business value.
This document is a presentation from Executive Business Intelligence (EBI) that summarizes their services and expertise in strategy, supply chain, and change solutions. EBI aims to advise clients and develop partnerships through quality services. Their five key service areas include business strategy, operations strategy, change management, technology, and interim resources. EBI uses a six sigma DMAIC process for their projects and has offices across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The presentation discusses the increasing importance and complexity of supply chain management for businesses.
The document discusses establishing an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) competency center. It outlines that such a center is needed to continuously improve business processes, drive fact-based decisions, and align execution to strategy after ERP/EPM projects. The competency center would oversee areas like business process optimization, data maintenance, management reporting, and continuous user training. It proposes that the center have roles across enabling people, managing processes, and supporting technology to fulfill its goals.
This document discusses assessing project alternatives through trade-off analysis in a strategic project management environment. It describes how trade-off analysis provides a tool for project managers to balance project constraints while shortening project length. It advocates for a systematic approach to strategic planning and trade-off analysis that involves comprehensive upfront planning, defining customer expectations, quantifying deliverables, and establishing guidelines to facilitate decision making during project implementation.
The document discusses future internet strategy in Taiwan using the Delphi method. It outlines the Delphi method process which involves multiple rounds of surveys to experts to build consensus on important issues. The document then discusses specific policies related to future internet research that were evaluated, including architecture research, advanced applications research, experimental networks, governance, and economics. Results from the Delphi rounds show a consensus among experts that architecture research and advanced applications research were the most important policies.
This presentation focuses on operations management design, including what design is, its key components, and what makes a good design. A major topic discussed is supply network design, covering issues like Dell's changing operating models, configuring automotive supply networks, and the vertical integration decision. Location decisions are also examined through examples like Disney Land Paris and Tata Nano. The presentation concludes that supply network design must be efficient and effective to meet objectives, and all design should profitably meet customer needs and expectations.
The document discusses developing a Concept of Operations (ConOps) for NASA's agency-wide business systems. A ConOps describes how a system will operate from a user perspective. It will provide an overview of NASA's desired future state for managing business systems to address needs across the agency. The ConOps is intended to help focus future initiatives by defining functions, processes, and system components. Developing a ConOps is part of an effort to identify gaps between NASA's current and desired business system capabilities and prioritize corrective actions.
PHEL, India (Psyche Hospitality Enterprises Ltd.), is a Hospitality Consultancy Company specialising in the areas of project consultancy, project and operations management, financial consultancy etc. for our clients who range from a small restaurant to a international 5 star hotel chain.
The document summarizes Golden Gate University's SF Remodel Project - Phase 7, which focuses on master planning and programming. The project scope involves assessing current and future facility needs, advising on infrastructure, and providing conceptual design direction. Key objectives include a facility needs analysis, infrastructure assessment, revising the institutional master plan, and conceptual programming for the university library and administrative/support areas. The MKThink process will measure current conditions, identify opportunities, develop strategies and plans, test prototypes, and implement projects according to scope, schedule and budget.
FREE A4 Cyber Security Awareness Posters-Social Engineering part 3Data Hops
Free A4 downloadable and printable Cyber Security, Social Engineering Safety and security Training Posters . Promote security awareness in the home or workplace. Lock them Out From training providers datahops.com
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
leewayhertz.com-AI in predictive maintenance Use cases technologies benefits ...alexjohnson7307
Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
HP Technology Consulting is opening doors in the IT executive suite; recent new services (assessments and workshops) are directly responsible for driving significant pull through of product, software and support services revenue in last quarter alone. Consulting services span the complete sales cycle. Workshops are the primary vehicle to start positioning consultative value within a sales engagement. These set the path and roadmap for all additional consultancy requirements and immediately add relevance for HP to the customerAs can see we have noted the hardware pull through that is created from consulting services, which of course then lead to support service pull thought as well. The aim of consulting is to add value to HPSD and provide a portfolio of services that span the complete sales cycle. It is important to note most of the consulting services can be undertaken in parallel with the product sale and that they also provide the TCO/ROI metrics which are required to close a deal.