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Mobility

An approach for managing smartphone support requests

IT departments are seeing an influx of requests to support users' smartphones. Jay Rollins outlines the pros and the cons of a possible solution to this issue.

Tech & Work

Help employees break the perpetual excuse habit

Jay Rollins says IT leaders should encourage employees to stop using these career-stalling excuses; otherwise, they'll get noticed for all the wrong reasons.

Banking

Five ways to reduce telecom expenses

Keeping up with the sheer volume of telecommunications bills -- not to mention trying to make sense of all the charges -- can be maddening. Learn how to cut these expenses.

CXO

The 2010 IT budget balancing act

When creating the 2010 IT budget, packaging is an extremely important factor, especially because of the perception that the department is a cost center.

CXO

Quantifying qualitative data in product development

Jay Rollins discusses what a product development team can accomplish when they use an Affinity exercise to link the team's ideas with the customer's needs.

Banking

Three reasons to have a post implementation project

Jay Rollins reminds PMs not to forget about the post-project project. Here are three considerations for following up after the implementation of a software project.

Project Management

Innovative project managers use ‘think time’

If you find yourself using the same PM solutions over and over again, you may need to carve out some "think time" to help stay innovative.

Innovation

Grassroots approach to getting a seat at the management table

Jay Rollins explains how showing initiative, doing leg work, and proving you add value to the company can lead to more invites to management meetings.

CXO

Visualization is key to IT project success

Jay Rollins discusses the importance of knowing exactly what is needed for an IT project to succeed and being prepared to fight for it.

Tech & Work

Don’t let standards impede employee innovation

If users want to use one-off software tools or hardware, IT pros might want to think twice about saying "no." Jay Rollins says being too standards driven can be counterproductive to employee innovation.

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