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Take steps to prevent IT myopia
Efforts to improve IT tend to focus on project management issues, but leaders need to also see the strategic view that's critical for successful ...
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Build trust in IT with a service catalog
The disconnect between business goals and IT priorities consistently ranks among the top three issues facing CIOs. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT ...
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Five ways to control IT MOOSE spending
How do you judge whether you're using your IT budget in the most efficient way? Forrester Research suggests that you control your IT MOOSE ...
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Five reasons why ITIL implementations fail
Lots of organizations are jumping on the bandwagon of ITIL hoping to improve the management and efficiency of their IT departments. Unfortunately, many are ...
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Five ways to analyze your IT budget for possible cuts
When organizations look to reduce costs, the IT department is often one of the first targets. Learn some creative ways to cut without throwing ...
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Three reasons why the voice of IT gets ignored
IT leaders sometimes feel like their voice gets ignored, which leads to failed projects and technology problems that IT ultimately gets blamed for. This ...
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How CIOs should spend their day
CIOs often have difficulty balancing their time and focus between their IT staff, their management peers, and the CEO. One effective time management strategy ...
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Five prerequisites for successful IT projects
According to some estimates, 68 percent of IT projects fail. That's a sobering statistic, but there are ways to stack the deck in favor ...
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Five signs to look for when identifying future leaders
To ensure that your IT organization remains vital, you need to identify individuals who show leadership potential and help them step into that role ...
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Five reasons to purchase new hardware during a recession
When business is bad or the economy takes a dive, new hardware purchases are often delayed indefinitely. While this is prudent, even essential, for ...
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Five tactics to ensure career survival in tough times
Achieving professional success as an IT leader is challenging enough during the best of times, but during a recession you need to really think ...
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Five ways to increase your professional visibility
Being recognized in your field can make you more valuable in your current job and more marketable when you look for a new job. ...
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Five ways to lead your team to peak performance
If you want to succeed as a leader, you can only do it by setting up your team members to succeed. And if your ...
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Legal terms IT leaders should know
People love to sue businesses, and since so much evidence is now created or stored on computers, lawsuits invariably require the involvement of IT. ...
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Power tips for maximizing the business lunch
Business lunches can be a valuable business tool. Unfortunately, you might be surprised at some of the stories about disastrous lunch meetings. Here are ...
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Five things you should know about SOA
One of the hottest trends in business software is the concept of service oriented architecture (SOA). This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives ...
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Leadership vs. management: Understand the differences
Leadership and management are opposing disciplines. Sometimes the demand is for more vision and inspiration from leader, while other times it's for more measurement ...
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Five ways to estimate and control the costs of IT
Estimating IT costs and implementing specific measures to control those costs is critical. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives explains five ways ...
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The five most lucrative certifications for IT leaders
TechRepublic's 2009 IT salary and skills survey has good news for IT pros but also showed the effects of the global recession. This episode ...
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Essential competencies for IT leaders
IT leaders need a full arsenal of cross-functional skills, including a lot of stuff that goes beyond the traditional IT skill set. Learn several ...
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Five signs that you aren't cut out to be a CIO
For many IT professionals, the ultimate job in technology is Chief Information Officer (CIO), but do you really know what a CIO does? This episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives looks at what the CIO job involves and provides five warning signs that you may not be cut out to be a CIO. Once you've watched the video, you can read the original TechRepublic article, download a PDF version of the article, and read what your peers have to say about this topic in the companion blog post.
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Five ways to lead your team to peak performance
If you want to succeed as a leader, you can only do it by setting up your team members to succeed. And if your team consists of knowledge workers and IT managers, you need to develop a special brand of leadership -- one that continually challenges them and allows them to solve problems independently. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives shares a few tips to help you guide your team to peak performance.
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Legal terms IT leaders should know
People love to sue businesses, and since so much evidence is now created or stored on computers, lawsuits invariably require the involvement of IT. Thus, here are the most important legal terms that all IT leaders need to know.
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Five ways to increase your professional visibility
Being recognized in your field can make you more valuable in your current job and more marketable when you look for a new job. This episode of Sanity Savers for I-T executives shares several practical strategies to help you increase your visibility and raise your professional profile as an IT leader.
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Five tactics to ensure career survival in tough times
Achieving professional success as an IT leader is challenging enough during the best of times, but during a recession you need to really think strategically to stay at the top of your game. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives shares five tactics that can help.
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The five most lucrative certifications for IT leaders
TechRepublic's 2009 IT salary and skills survey has good news for IT pros but also showed the effects of the global recession. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives shares the key findings, including the five most lucrative IT management certifications.
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Five prerequisites for successful IT projects
According to some estimates, 68 percent of IT projects fail. That's a sobering statistic, but there are ways to stack the deck in favor of IT project success. This episode of Sanity Savers shares five strategies to help you overcome the common problems that plague many IT projects.
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How CIOs should spend their day
CIOs often have difficulty balancing their time and focus between their IT staff, their management peers, and the CEO. One effective time management strategy is Forrester's 30-30-30-10 model, as this episode of Sanity Savers explains.
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Five signs to look for when identifying future leaders
To ensure that your IT organization remains vital, you need to identify individuals who show leadership potential and help them step into that role when they're ready. But what do future leaders look like? This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives shares five of the traits to look for.
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Leadership vs. management: Understand the differences
Leadership and management are opposing disciplines. Sometimes the demand is for more vision and inspiration from leader, while other times it's for more measurement and control from managers. But the reality is that the two disciplines cannot work apart. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives looks at five ways that leadership and management roles complement and depend on each other.
