Intel IT is implementing an enterprise-wide social computing platform that combines professional networking tools with social media such as wikis and blogs, and integrates with existing enterprise software. Our goal is to transform collaboration across Intel, addressing top business challenges such as helping employees to find relevant information and expertise more quickly, breaking down silos, attracting and retaining new employees, and capturing the tacit knowledge of mature employees. Learn more in the IT@Intel white paper called Developing an Enterprise Social Computing Strategy (939KB, PDF).
Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
Faster, Simpler Integration of Acquired IT Environments
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009After nearly a hundred integration projects, Intel IT has found that extending corporate IT standards into acquired IT environments generally pays off in a faster integration, lower costs, reduced risk, and enhanced collaboration. Find out about the balancing act IT must coordinate between introducing change to employees and working to minimize disruption in Faster, Simpler Integration of Acquired IT Environments (301KB, PDF).
UC Irvine: Reaching New Frontiers in Physics
Monday, March 30th, 2009Several hundred feet beneath the French-Swiss border lies the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider. More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory on ATLAS, a large-scale particle physics experiment that studies the forces that have shaped the universe. To create the high-performance computing clusters that capture and analyze the massive amount of experimental data generated, researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and collaborating institutions selected Dell PowerEdge* servers equipped with Intel® Xeon® processors. Read their story. (more…)
Replacing Micro-Management with Macro-Leadership
Monday, March 30th, 2009
By Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with the vice president of software development for a large technology company. The focus of our discussion was good and bad leadership styles.
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Not-for-Profit Hospital Delivers Better Patient Care with Mobility
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009Southeast Alabama Medical Center (SAMC) had a legacy network that could not provide the coverage and reliability that clinicians required for VoIP throughout the facility. In the hospital’s highly mobile and collaborative environment, nurses and medical staff do extensive work while in motion throughout the facility. The campus had been created over the years by joining multiple buildings, of varying floor levels and many concrete walls still intact throughout, into one large facility. This made for a very challenging RF environment. Read the details on how SAMC deployed enhanced Mobile Collaborative Care applications (e.g., Unified Communications) as well as Secure Wireless applications which were critical for their growth and improved patient satisfaction. (more…)
Can I Ever Co-Exist With Generation Next? (Part Two)
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008From The Practical CIO by Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
In my last column, I explained how I put together three focus groups of “Gen Next” employees. My goal was to better understand what they expected from their jobs, as well as what they expected from their leaders. The responses they gave were insightful and, at times, surprising. They also tended to fall into three general categories:
• What I need from my leaders.
• How I expect to interact.
• What I want from my employer. (more…)
Can I Ever Co-Exist With Generation Next? (Part One)
Monday, September 29th, 2008From The Practical CIO by Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
To be honest, I never pay much attention to the stories about the work of Gen X and Gen Y (collectively referred to as Gen Next) employees. I assumed many of the stories were apocryphal. I am sure you have heard some of the same claims and stories:
Intelligence in Finance Newsletter – Summer 2008
Sunday, June 8th, 2008A Year in the Life of Trading Technology
Nigel Woodward, Global Director, Financial Services for Intel takes a look at developments over the last 12 months, taking us from new releases of Intel Architecture of quad core, through 45nm and the arrival of standardized benchmarks for comparative testing.
Raising the Bar on Teleworking in Georgia
Sunday, May 4th, 2008While several states are taking action to motivate more telework, no state has gone as far or had as much success as Georgia in generating the cultural and business changes needed to establish and sustain successful telework programs. This brief looks at the unique public-private collaboration between the State and organizations such as the not-for-profit Clean Air Campaign, who works with business and government to start and expand telework programs. (more…)