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Massive Layoffs at HP Make for IT Outsourcing Identity Crisis

Major cutbacks at HP, at a time when its competitors are growing, raise questions about the company's IT services strategy for the future. Will it be a low-margin service provider or strategic business partner?

May 24, 2012 7 mins
IT Strategy Outsourcing
how-to

Beyond Templates: Building a Better Business Website

Are you looking for a more robust and actionable business website? Here experts offer advice to help you move beyond a basic template-based business website.

May 23, 2012 7 mins
Retail Industry Small and Medium Business Web Development
feature

5 Tips for Social Business Adoption: How SAS Succeeded

SAS needed a way to consolidate information repositories and wrangle millennials from using Facebook for work purposes. Here's how the business analytics company decided on and rolled out their enterprise collaboration platform, plus tips for su

May 21, 2012 6 mins
CIO SaaS Social Networking Apps
how-to

5 Ways to Send a Custom Software Project Off the Rails

Unless you want to build a software system that quickly becomes a fossil (or a monster), you should avoid doing these five things that usually seem like a good idea at the time.

May 21, 2012 6 mins
Agile Development Enterprise Architecture IT Governance Frameworks
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How to Advance Lean Software Development (Beyond the ‘Toyota Way’)

Samuel Hui, Co-Owner & Chief Transformation Officer, and Sam Tan, Co-Owner & Chief Innovation Officer at the HKBN Group (HKBN), discuss how theyu2019re orchestrating people, processes, data, and technologies to lead a major transformation pro

Jun 14, 2021
IT Leadership
how-to

How to Advance Lean Software Development (Beyond the ‘Toyota Way’)

The concept of lean software traces its origins to lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. Building software is much different than building a car, but lessons about reducing waste and achieving continuous improvement apply nonetheless.

May 21, 2012 9 mins
Agile Development IT Governance Frameworks IT Strategy
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IT Should Forget Development, Focus on Requirements and Release Management

Despite all the changes to application lifecycle management (ALM), IT organizations are doing just fine when it comes to core development processes. It is the "bookend" processes of requirements management and release management that need h

May 18, 2012 6 mins
Agile Development Developer Small and Medium Business
opinion

CIOs Don’t Need to Be Business Leaders

Given the complexity of today's applications, it's folly to suggest that the future role of the CIO is less technical and more businesslike, columnist Bernard Golden writes. If anything, it's the opposite -- the business side of the en

May 18, 2012 7 mins
CIO IT Strategy Virtualization
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How to Manage Summer Interns: 5 Expert Tips from LinkedIn

Managing interns -- plus your own workload -- can be tricky. Here are five expert tips from LinkedIn to help you both make the most of the partnership.

May 16, 2012 4 mins
IT Jobs IT Strategy Mentoring
opinion

How to Align Your IT Services Strategy with the Business

There are several factors that need to be considered when thinking about a services initiative. Sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals need a structured yet flexible approach that evaluates the vendor's stability as well as its serv

May 16, 2012 6 mins
IT Governance Frameworks IT Leadership IT Strategy
opinion

How to Manage Summer Interns: 5 Expert Tips From Linkedin

Managing interns -- plus your own workload -- can be tricky. Here are five expert tips from LinkedIn to help you both make the most of the partnership.

May 16, 2012 4 mins
IT Strategy