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E-mail is a great productivity tool, but it also has a darker side: e-mail overload. To deal with this problem, Intel has created a number of programs to help its employees use e-mail productively and efficiently. “Practice Smarter E-mail”, deployed in 2006/2007, is a lightweight, agile behavior change drive aiming to improve e-mail behavior in an organic organization with minimal investment of time and money. 

RAPLite is a database application that provides functionality to perform a qualitative risk assessment. The program supports two industry standard risk assessment techniques combined into a single application using a consolidated risk assessment methodology. General business risks can be identified and prioritized using a risk statement, likelihood and impact method. Information security specific risks can be quantified using a threat, vulnerability, consequence method. Both methods are combined such that the output of the program is a graphical risk profile and prioritized ranking of all identified risks. The application is a complied version of Microsoft Access* and requires that Access 2003 is installed on the PC running the program.

This white paper explains the Business Value for IT Makeover tool that is specially designed for the small and medium sized businesses to justify their IT investments, make data driven decisions through forecasting of business benefits from such investments. It also helps them to demonstrate actual business benefits derived from the investments. The tool itself is also available to download for Intel Premier IT Professional members.

The Business Value for IT Makeover tool is specially designed for the small and medium sized businesses to justify their IT investments, make data driven decisions through forecasting of business benefits from such investments. It also helps them to demonstrate actual business benefits derived from the investments.

Intel developed this fun training tool that teaches the skills you need to process email faster.  It is a computer based training module originally for Microsoft Outlook* 2003 that trains users to be more effective in processing email.

Submitted by an ITshareNet member from the University of Haifa, this office collaboration tool facilitates small web-based group chat.

ProxyMan is a system tray tool that monitors the IP address changes of your computer. Once it detects such a change, it will perform a test to determine if you are connected to the corporate network, or connected to your home or ISP network.

Switching from the ISP network to a corporate network involves a number of steps in Internet Explorer, which can be easily automated using this tool.

Once configured, the tool will switch Internet Explorer settings without any user intervention.

This is an article offering specific suggestions for achieving better email outcomes through greater attention to the quality of each message.

This article has been published in a number of publications and may be reproduced freely, provided that the author’s details are cited together with the article.

This Business Value Return on Investment (ROI) template demonstrates how Intel calculates the business value and ROI to justify investment in new IT projects.

This whitepaper details how an organization’s creditability can be jeopardized due to employees’ indiscretions when using electronic communication.  Global conditions that need to be considered, mini case studies and recommendations are provided.