Posts Tagged ‘policy’

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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The Ghost of Christmas Future, Part II

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

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By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.

In my last column we were drifting in our holiday bliss, looking forward 25 years to how we will protect ourselves in a digital world. We have a world in which we and our proxies must have some strong, and preferably standardized, way of authenticating ourselves for everything from purchases to work. We need to bridge the gap between the heavy authentication security vendors will want and the transparency that users will need.

So how does it happen?
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The Ghost of Christmas Future: Identity Management in 2033

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

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By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.

It’s 7:30am on Friday morning. Your PDA wakes you with the latest Bach/Mozart/U2 synth medley it bought for you from the classics server off the web overnight; you’re fairly pleased with the purchase, since you didn’t even know the synthers were playing with that arrangement again. The “housething” system turns up the wall screen and flips on your favorite news channel. (more…)

Cleveland Clinic: Improving Productivity and Reducing Energy Costs

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Cleveland Clinic, a non-profit, multispecialty academic medical center, recently changed their asset management approach to a lease vs. buy program and are acquiring PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology over a four year period. This case study examines how they tackled issues such as mitigating missing assets, supporting the Clinic’s Healthy Environment energy policy, and providing better manageability – while increasing productivity of the Clinic’s staff. (more…)

EDS: Increasing Call Center Productivity

Friday, February 27th, 2009

EDS and Intel have worked together to successfully prove that when deployed, Intel® vPro™ Technology can save an enterprise three times their investment costs over three years while extending remote management capabilities. One example of production deployment includes an EDS-managed call center located in Canada. As call centers frequently have a high employee turnover rate, company policy requires a terminated call center agent’s workstation to be “wiped clean,” deleting all files on the disk drive. With vPro Technology, the task can be performed remotely resulting in productivity that equates to answering 370 calls a year—an efficiency improvement. (more…)

Gen Y Employees Impact on the Workplace and IT Security

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Intel recently completed a research project to measure the opinions and perspectives of IT professionals with regard to their Gen Y users. We asked IT professionals how they perceive Gen Y users impacting the security of their PC fleets and infrastructure, and what they are doing to deal with this new workforce. While the majority of IT professionals think that Gen Y employees have a positive effect on their company’s use of innovative technology, that same computer/tech savvy that causes them to be innovative also causes some concerns.

Topics include:

  • Pros and cons of Gen Y’s impact on IT
  • Advantages and concerns around security
  • Social networking sites that pose security concerns
  • Policies that have changed due to Gen Yers
  • Perceptions of a company’s technology, security, flexibility of IT policies vis-à-vis other companies
  • IT Solutions used to address Gen Y related security concerns

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