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Description |
Date |
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| Beyond Alignment: Integrating Business and IT | Whether you're a newly appointed CIO or a seasoned IT executive, you have heard repeatedly that for IT to be seen as a driver of business value rather than a cost center, you must "align IT with the business." But should alignment always be your goal? |
2008-12-05 |
| The Art of Acquisition Integration: Knowing When to Break the Mold | In today's networked business world, IT plays a critical role in acquisitions, and if you expect to do it more than once, a standardized integration model is essential. But, as with any art, success depends on knowing when to break the mold. | 2008-08-01 |
| Collapsing the Racks: How Server Virtualization Paid Off For Cisco IT, and Made The Data Center Greener | As the experience of Cisco IT with virtualized servers has shown, the green benefits of virtualization are just one among many reasons why this technology is important to enterprise CIOs. | 2008-03-24 |
| Starting Small To Build Green Momentum | Ranking your green projects in terms of payoff vs. effort can help you identify opportunities that are easy to implement, low cost, and yet deliver quantifiable benefits, gaining you momentum for bigger efforts. | 2008-03-24 |
| The Gap Between Potential and Reality | People say that IT integration is getting easier. I don't buy it. The messages in the marketplace about service-oriented architectures (SOA) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) easing the challenge of integration don't match what I see every day. | 2008-03-24 |
| Telepresence Brings Distant Employees Face to Face - Part II | Cisco's use of Telepresence has opened the possibilities for doing business in an innovative way, and is delivering significant benefits along the way. | 2008-02-08 |
| Telepresence Brings Distant Employees Face to Face | Cisco's use of Telepresence has opened the possibilities for doing business in an innovative way, and is delivering significant benefits along the way. | 2008-01-15 |
| On the Shoulders of Giants: SaaS Comes of Age and Gives CIOs a Leg Up on Critical Business Processes | Software as a Service (SaaS) is entering its fourth generation, with Business Process Automation and software development capabilities that present more choices-and pitfalls-than ever to CIOs | 2008-01-15 |
| The Dark Side of Software-as-a-Service | On the surface, the potential benefits of SaaS can be exhilarating. Besides getting up to speed more quickly, IT complexity can be reduced. However, CIOs need to be wary of hidden restrictions which can make SaaS less liberating than it seems. | 2008-01-15 |
| Creating Competitive Advantage Through Vendor Relationships, Part II | Cisco IT created a vendor management office to help the company track and manage its strategic vendor relationships. The program delivered significant benefits in five ways. | 2007-12-17 |
| Is Your IT Team 'Bilingual'? | How to Develop Staff with Both Tech and Business Smarts | 2007-09-17 |
| In Quest of Innovation | What's the most efficient way for IT to bring new technology into the enterprise? | 2007-09-17 |
| Creating Competitive Advantage through Vendor Relationships, Part I | How Cisco IT Helped with Strategic Vendor Management | 2007-09-17 |
| Communications silos dominate current market landscape | Workers have many communication devices at their disposal, such as wired and wireless telephones, PCs, PDA, RIM devices, pagers, and several types of messaging systems. Each mode of communication requires a separate address to contact one another and calls for separate management, administration, and directories. Communication silos increase the complexity of managing business communications. Despite the increase in number of voice and data communication devices, workers still lack the ability to effectively reach others for time-critical events as needed. Not communicating effectively lowers worker productivity and potentially results in business loss due to delays in meeting business targets. | 2007-07-23 |
| Enabling Financial Services to Reduce Cost and Time to Compliance | Operational Risk Management (ORM) is no longer a "tick-in-the-box" exercise for financial services institutions—it is a business imperative that protects a corporation's most prized asset—its reputation. | 2007-03-09 |
| Creating the Sales Portal, Part II | Setting strategy is a bit like being a fortune-teller, "you're putting forth a plan based on a vision of the future that isn't guaranteed to come true." At a company such as Cisco, in Fact, at almost any enterprise, strategic insight comes from our salespeople. But for salespeople to be able to collect information and derive these insights, they need information: information about their customers, their customers' market and industry issues, and Cisco competitor activity. | 2007-02-05 |
| Back to Basics: CIOs New Year's Resolutions for 2007 | As 2007 kicks off, leading CIOs are focused squarely on bringing their organizations quickly, firmly, and efficiently back to the fundamentals. PricewaterhouseCoopers consultant Mark Lutchen talks about getting back to basics. | 2007-01-22 |
| Your Next Strategic Shift: A Holistic Look at IT | We're at a key inflection point in strategic thinking, one that we've been working toward for a few years. Simply put, you must resolve to make the systems you've built over the last few years work holistically - and in two ways. They must work holistically among themselves, and they must work holistically with the business. Like most resolutions, keeping this one isn't going to be easy. | 2007-01-22 |
| Creating Sales Insight, Part I | Setting strategy is a bit like being a fortune-teller, "you're putting forth a plan based on a vision of the future that isn't guaranteed to come true." At a company such as Cisco, in Fact, at almost any enterprise, strategic insight comes from our salespeople. But for salespeople to be able to collect information and derive these insights, they need information: information about their customers, their customers' market and industry issues, and Cisco competitor activity. | 2007-01-17 |
| Enabling Corporate Strategy Through IT | As the Information Age roars through the first decade of this millennium, it seems clear that the way we do business is morphing right before our eyes into a worldwide organic network running relentlessly 24/7. | 2006-10-16 |
| Using Cisco Security Agent To Protect 70,000 Desktops Worldwide | For a global enterprise, protecting desktops from malware and other threats is a never-ending job that can chew up far too much of the IT department's time and budget. But the cost of failure can be even higher. Cisco IT's experience deploying Cisco Security Agent illustrates the challenges and the benefits of getting desktop security right. | 2008-05-25 |
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