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Toni Bowers

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Toni Bowers

Toni Bowers
Toni Bowers is the Head Blogs Editor of TechRepublic and award-winning blogger for the Career Management blog.
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    Create and sustain a customer focus within projects

    Whether the clients you serve are inside or outside your organization, creating and sustaining customer focus is crucial to your success as an IT department. As a project manager or business...

    Posted by Joe Goss | January 10, 2008, 1:51 PM PST

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    12 questions with Sharon Taylor, Chief Architect of ITIL V3

    Sharon Taylor worked on earlier versions of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library in the 1990s and has now accepted the key role in creating version 3 released in May of 2007. She is...

    Posted by Jeff Cerny | January 7, 2008, 1:07 PM PST | Latest comment by rlcallaway@...

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    Take positive risks to gain project benefits

    Risks are future events or conditions that have some probability of occurring and that will some impact on your project. We usually think of risks as being bad and we try to put a plan in place to...

    Posted by Tom Mochal | January 7, 2008, 8:15 AM PST | Latest comment by gcookman@...

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    Brand new year - Same old pet peeves

    Well it’s New Year Resolution time and for a fleeting minute I thought about making one. It was going to be entitled, “I’m not going to let these things get to me this year.� But the...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | January 6, 2008, 5:25 PM PST | Latest comment by ThreeLittleBirds

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    Apply work breakdown structure techniques to organize a program

    Most of have you have used a work breakdown structure (WBS) to break large units of work into the smaller activities. These smaller activities end up being used as the basis for your project...

    Posted by Tom Mochal | January 1, 2008, 3:57 PM PST | Latest comment by wspuck@...

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    Is your lack of “Executive Presence� holding you back?

    Most people want leaders who look like leaders and act like leaders. If you’re an executive who is choosing a new department head, a company board of directors appointing a new CEO, or simply a...

    Posted by John McKee | December 27, 2007, 5:12 PM PST | Latest comment by carlgadini@...

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    Eat, drink, sleep. Or....

    It's the holidays. For many, it's the time to gain an average of 3.2 lbs. Question: Does the average American gain weight because they are enjoying wonderful times with families and friends for...

    Posted by John McKee | December 20, 2007, 11:29 AM PST | Latest comment by ajitpan@...

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    Use JAD sessions to reduce the duration of group consensus

    Project managers are always looking for ways to deliver results in a shorter timeframe. It's critical if you want to achieve the biggest business benefits on your projects. One way to do this is...

    Posted by Tom Mochal | December 17, 2007, 12:00 PM PST | Latest comment by user_786@...

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    Job satisfaction is a balancing act.

    A friend and colleague of mine just announced his resignation as CIO of his organization and has accepted a sweet position as CIO of another similar organization (same industry) where not only...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | December 16, 2007, 4:31 PM PST | Latest comment by Tedt-NJ

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    The new career powertool: Naps.

    Do you look older than your age? For you, or others around you, this simple point can be an important indicator of productivity, creativity, and performance. Take a look around you during your...

    Posted by John McKee | December 13, 2007, 2:31 PM PST | Latest comment by steve@...

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    Four tips for using metrics on your project

    Identifying, gathering, and leveraging the right mix of metrics is a way to gain better control of your large project. The value can be quantified in a number of areas including: Improved...

    Posted by Tom Mochal | December 10, 2007, 7:39 AM PST | Latest comment by carmela.martinez@...

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    IT: Caught between a rock and a hard place.

    I was reading a book the other night that had a couple of pages devoted to change. After reflecting on the information, I started thinking more about the dual demands that are placed on IT by...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | December 9, 2007, 9:49 AM PST | Latest comment by memsley1

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    You are your job. (And vice versa.) Sorry.

    I know a few things for certain. One of them - after 30 or so years as a leadership coach and business executive - is that we cannot "compartmentalize" our lives. This is not widely accepted....

    Posted by John McKee | December 6, 2007, 1:57 PM PST | Latest comment by Jaqui

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    Help your analysis team draft an actionable detailed use case

    An analysis team writes detailed use cases to describe the steps and characteristics of business processes. While use cases are often a central feature of a software requirements specification,...

    Posted by Joe Goss | December 4, 2007, 11:31 AM PST | Latest comment by jgoss@...

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    Full configuration management requires a five-step model

    There are two meanings for the project management process of configuration management. It can be used for the process of identification, tracking, and management of all the physical assets of a...

    Posted by Tom Mochal | December 3, 2007, 8:31 AM PST

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    Compliance Woes

    If you read many IT publications you are sure to come across more than one article on compliance woes - the hardships that organizations go through when having to meet what many usually call...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | December 2, 2007, 8:55 AM PST

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    Staff retention problems? Look in the mirror...

    One of the best ways to assess the quality of an organization is to look at those who are leaving it. Many managers think it's the other way around. They say the best way to tell is by looking...

    Posted by John McKee | November 29, 2007, 11:34 AM PST | Latest comment by karen@...

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    The most famous paradigm you've probably never heard of

    What would you think if someone told you some of your most cherished assumptions are actually the source of the biggest roadblocks you face? Even though it would be mighty unsettling, it'd...

    Posted by John Ricketts | November 28, 2007, 6:10 AM PST | Latest comment by cd613@...

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    Use these techniques to build a high-performing team

    High-performing teams are a magical, but rare, convergence of the right people, processes, and environment. They work much more effectively and have a much higher productivity rate than most...

    Posted by Tom Mochal | November 27, 2007, 6:30 AM PST | Latest comment by mark@...

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    Tuning up your perspective.

    Since I am writing this pre-Thanksgiving and you are probably reading this while the leftover turkey is still good, I thought I would take the time to appreciate some of the things in my work...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | November 26, 2007, 5:18 AM PST | Latest comment by Tig2

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