Certified IT staff provide benefits to organizations including:
- 17% higher productivity for server, database, and application teams
- 56% less unplanned downtime
- 58% faster time to market for applications
- 39% less time for new hires to reach full productivity
The study found that IT staff with certifications were more efficient, able to handle more complex issues, support other staff members, help applications experience less downtime, enable faster delivery of applications, and allow new hires to reach full productivity faster. Organizations reported improved IT operations and agility from having certified staff.
Your Challenge
Service desk managers with immature service desk processes struggle with:
Low business satisfaction.
High cost to resolve incidents and implement requests.
Confused and unhappy end users.
High ticket volumes and a lack of root-cause analysis to reduce recurring issues.
Wasted IT time and wages resolving the same issues time and again.
Ineffective demand planning.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Don’t be fooled by a tool that’s new. A new service desk tool alone won’t solve the problem. Service desk maturity improvements depend on putting in place the right people and processes to support the technology.
Service desk improvement is an exercise in organizational change. Engage specialists across the IT organization in building the solution, and emphasize how everyone stands to benefit from the initiative.
Organizations are sometimes tempted to track their work under a single ticket type. Unfortunately, the practice obscures the fact that incidents, requests, and projects require radically different amounts of time and resources, and can create the impression that IT is underperforming. Distinguish between incidents, requests, and projects, and design specific processes to support and track the performance of each activity.
Remember, the value of any IT service management (ITSM) tool is a function of the processes it supports and the adoption of those processes. The ITSM tool with the best functionality is worth little if you do not build the right processes, configure the tool to support them, and work to improve tool adoption in your organization.
Impact and Result
Increase business satisfaction.
Reduce recurring issues and ticket volumes.
Reduce average incident resolution time and average request implementation time.
Increase efficiency and lower operating costs.
Enhance demand planning.
Read this Executive Brief to understand why your team should make the case to modernize your communications and collaboration infrastructure.
Understand why it's time to move forward with modernizing your communications infrastructure.
Discover the productivity and efficiency gains you can achieve.
Redefine how you think about communications.
Learn how to build a strategy that addresses both unified communications and collaboration.
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Illustrating the need for IT training as an integral element of computing optimization. Too frequently the budget to provide user training to take advantage of the new features and tools is lacking or dismissed as unnecessary.
Your Challenge
Companies are approving more projects than they can deliver. Most organizations say they have too many projects on the go and an unmanageable and ever-growing backlog of things to get to.
While organizations want to achieve a high throughput of approved projects, many are unable or unwilling to allocate an appropriate level of IT resourcing to adequately match the number of approved initiatives.
Portfolio management practices must find a way to accommodate stakeholder needs without sacrificing the portfolio to low-value initiatives that do not align with business goals.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Failure to align projects with strategic goals and resource capacity are the most common causes of portfolio waste across organizations. Intake, approval, and prioritization represent the best opportunities to ensure this alignment.
More time spent with stakeholders during the ideation phase to help set realistic expectations for stakeholders and enhance visibility into IT’s capacity and processes is key to both project and organizational success.
Too much intake red tape will lead to an underground economy of projects that escape portfolio oversight, while too little intake formality will lead to a wild west of approvals that could overwhelm the PMO. Finding the right balance of intake formality for your organization is the key to establishing a PMO that has the ability to focus on the right things.
Impact and Result
Eliminate off-the-grid initiatives by establishing a centralized intake process that funnels requests into a single channel.
Improve the throughput of projects through the portfolio by incorporating the constraint of resource capacity to cap the amount of project approvals to that which is realistic.
Silence squeaky wheels and overbearing stakeholders by establishing a progressive approval and prioritization process that gives primacy to the highest value requests.
Your Challenge
Service desk managers with immature service desk processes struggle with:
Low business satisfaction.
High cost to resolve incidents and implement requests.
Confused and unhappy end users.
High ticket volumes and a lack of root-cause analysis to reduce recurring issues.
Wasted IT time and wages resolving the same issues time and again.
Ineffective demand planning.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Don’t be fooled by a tool that’s new. A new service desk tool alone won’t solve the problem. Service desk maturity improvements depend on putting in place the right people and processes to support the technology.
Service desk improvement is an exercise in organizational change. Engage specialists across the IT organization in building the solution, and emphasize how everyone stands to benefit from the initiative.
Organizations are sometimes tempted to track their work under a single ticket type. Unfortunately, the practice obscures the fact that incidents, requests, and projects require radically different amounts of time and resources, and can create the impression that IT is underperforming. Distinguish between incidents, requests, and projects, and design specific processes to support and track the performance of each activity.
Remember, the value of any IT service management (ITSM) tool is a function of the processes it supports and the adoption of those processes. The ITSM tool with the best functionality is worth little if you do not build the right processes, configure the tool to support them, and work to improve tool adoption in your organization.
Impact and Result
Increase business satisfaction.
Reduce recurring issues and ticket volumes.
Reduce average incident resolution time and average request implementation time.
Increase efficiency and lower operating costs.
Enhance demand planning.
Read this Executive Brief to understand why your team should make the case to modernize your communications and collaboration infrastructure.
Understand why it's time to move forward with modernizing your communications infrastructure.
Discover the productivity and efficiency gains you can achieve.
Redefine how you think about communications.
Learn how to build a strategy that addresses both unified communications and collaboration.
Understand Info-Tech's methodology and approach to modernizing communications and collaboration infrastructure.
How will upgrading your people impact your bottom line?Allison Thrush
Illustrating the need for IT training as an integral element of computing optimization. Too frequently the budget to provide user training to take advantage of the new features and tools is lacking or dismissed as unnecessary.
Your Challenge
Companies are approving more projects than they can deliver. Most organizations say they have too many projects on the go and an unmanageable and ever-growing backlog of things to get to.
While organizations want to achieve a high throughput of approved projects, many are unable or unwilling to allocate an appropriate level of IT resourcing to adequately match the number of approved initiatives.
Portfolio management practices must find a way to accommodate stakeholder needs without sacrificing the portfolio to low-value initiatives that do not align with business goals.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Failure to align projects with strategic goals and resource capacity are the most common causes of portfolio waste across organizations. Intake, approval, and prioritization represent the best opportunities to ensure this alignment.
More time spent with stakeholders during the ideation phase to help set realistic expectations for stakeholders and enhance visibility into IT’s capacity and processes is key to both project and organizational success.
Too much intake red tape will lead to an underground economy of projects that escape portfolio oversight, while too little intake formality will lead to a wild west of approvals that could overwhelm the PMO. Finding the right balance of intake formality for your organization is the key to establishing a PMO that has the ability to focus on the right things.
Impact and Result
Eliminate off-the-grid initiatives by establishing a centralized intake process that funnels requests into a single channel.
Improve the throughput of projects through the portfolio by incorporating the constraint of resource capacity to cap the amount of project approvals to that which is realistic.
Silence squeaky wheels and overbearing stakeholders by establishing a progressive approval and prioritization process that gives primacy to the highest value requests.
White paper I developed on best practices when selecting an HR technology product suite. Includes an amazing checklist to help those in the market for a new human resources suite tech product.
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Information and related technology have become increasingly crucial in the sustainability, growth and management of value and risk in most enterprises. As a result, IT has moved from a support role to a central position within enterprises.
The enhanced role of IT for enterprise value creation and risk management has been accompanied by an increased emphasis on the Governance and Management of Enterprise IT (GEIT).
Enterprise stakeholders and the governing board wish to ensure that IT fulfills the goals of the enterprise. GEIT is an integral part of overall corporate governance.
GEIT addresses the definition and implementation of processes, structures and relational mechanisms within the enterprise that enable business and IT staff to
execute their responsibilities in support of creating or sustaining business value.
In this course you will learn and understand how to assess and evaluate an organization’s GEIT and make sure that IT is properly aligned with the business objectives.
COBIT 5 can help enterprises create optimal value from IT by maintaining a balance between realizing benefits, optimizing risk management and leveraging resources. The COBIT 5.0 addresses both business and IT functional areas and provides a governance, management and operational framework for enterprises of all sizes, whether commercial, not-for-profit or public sector.
Contact Kris at kris@360bsi.com to register.
Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to business applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday provides unified Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management solutions designed for today’s organizations and the way people work. Delivered in the cloud and leveraging a modern technology platform, Workday offers a fresh alternative to legacy ERP. More than 200 customers, spanning mid-sized organizations to Fortune 500 businesses, have selected Workday.
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advantages but it does not mean that there are no drawbacks. Security has become the major concern in cloud and cloud attacks too. Business organizations need to be alert against the attacks to their cloud storage. Benefits and drawbacks of cloud computing in business will be explored in this paper. Some solutions also provided in this paper to overcome the drawbacks. The method has been used is secondary research, that is collecting data from published journal papers and conference papers.
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View web version at: http://www.itcareerfinder.com/brain-food/blog/entry/best-it-certifications-to-get-a-job-in-2012.html
Research and compare the IT certifications most likely to get you a job in 2012 and beyond.
White paper I developed on best practices when selecting an HR technology product suite. Includes an amazing checklist to help those in the market for a new human resources suite tech product.
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Information and related technology have become increasingly crucial in the sustainability, growth and management of value and risk in most enterprises. As a result, IT has moved from a support role to a central position within enterprises.
The enhanced role of IT for enterprise value creation and risk management has been accompanied by an increased emphasis on the Governance and Management of Enterprise IT (GEIT).
Enterprise stakeholders and the governing board wish to ensure that IT fulfills the goals of the enterprise. GEIT is an integral part of overall corporate governance.
GEIT addresses the definition and implementation of processes, structures and relational mechanisms within the enterprise that enable business and IT staff to
execute their responsibilities in support of creating or sustaining business value.
In this course you will learn and understand how to assess and evaluate an organization’s GEIT and make sure that IT is properly aligned with the business objectives.
COBIT 5 can help enterprises create optimal value from IT by maintaining a balance between realizing benefits, optimizing risk management and leveraging resources. The COBIT 5.0 addresses both business and IT functional areas and provides a governance, management and operational framework for enterprises of all sizes, whether commercial, not-for-profit or public sector.
Contact Kris at kris@360bsi.com to register.
Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to business applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday provides unified Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management solutions designed for today’s organizations and the way people work. Delivered in the cloud and leveraging a modern technology platform, Workday offers a fresh alternative to legacy ERP. More than 200 customers, spanning mid-sized organizations to Fortune 500 businesses, have selected Workday.
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It is designed to help individuals with the knowledge and information they need in order to choose the perfect IT career. It also gives a clear insight into the industry
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Webinar discussing the top trends driving the Digital Enterprise with Content and Process. ECM has never been more important to driving productivity in the enterprise. Forrester's Cheryl McKinnon discusses the top trends that leaders are using to build the Digital Enterprise.
The Workplace Engagement Economy Where HR, Social, Mobile, and Tech CollideJessica Miller-Merrell
Journal article published in Wiley's HR and Recruiting journal. I discuss the rise of technology and social media for use in human resources and talent acquisition. I focus on the influences technology has on our stereotyping of generations and how our workforce wants to be communicated and engaged.
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The loss of business and downturn of economics almost occur every day. Thus technology is needed in every organization. Cloud computing has played a major role in solving the inefficiencies problem in organizations and increase the growth of business thus help the organizations to stay competitive. It is required to improve and automate the traditional ways of doing business. Cloud computing has been considered as an innovative way to improve business. Overall, cloud computing enables the organizations to manage their business efficiently. Unnecessary procedural, administrative, hardware and software costs in organizations expenses are avoided using cloud computing. Although cloud computing can provide
advantages but it does not mean that there are no drawbacks. Security has become the major concern in cloud and cloud attacks too. Business organizations need to be alert against the attacks to their cloud storage. Benefits and drawbacks of cloud computing in business will be explored in this paper. Some solutions also provided in this paper to overcome the drawbacks. The method has been used is secondary research, that is collecting data from published journal papers and conference papers.
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