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Social enterprise

The secret to succeeding with social media apps in your organization

When Marc Schiller talks about social networking, he doesn't mean Facebook. He means creating a collaborative, user-driven environment that connects people to a common purpose.

CXO

End the year with a bang and start planning now

How do you plan to end the year for your team? What do you have in mind to mark the end of 2010? Here are some tips for doing it right.

Innovation

A tech discussion your CEO will welcome

Marc Schiller follows up on how to improve your CEO's view of technology as a strategic asset for the company.

CXO

How to make your CEO a massive tech advocate, guaranteed!

CIOs are tasked with promoting a vision and strategy for IT. But CEOs, when you can get theikr ear, aren't really interested in technology. Marc Schiller talks about what you can do to solve this dilemma.

CXO

Your responses to a terrible service delivery example

In a recent blog, Marc Schiller turned to you for help on how to address a persistent issue that all IT leaders face-managing work queue requests in a timely yet responsible manner. Here is what you had to say.

Banking

BIXI: Another example of IT changing the world for the better

When you work daily on the small parts that make up a system, it's easy to lose track of the big picture. Marc Schiller talks about a new initiative that is catching on that wouldn't be possible without IT.

Innovation

How to close an IT project with flair

The project is complete, but users keep calling you about "one more thing." Sound familiar? What is an IT pro to do?

Innovation

Beyond storyboarding: Key tips for putting the power back in your PowerPoint

The average PowerPoint presentation is pretty bad. The only way to change that is to stop thinking about a presentation as a collection of slides and start thinking about it as a story.

Tech & Work

Project management: Simplify with a pre-flight project checklist

With a pre-flight checklist, a pilot checks off tasks that are inarguably numerous, complex and essential to the success of the flight. Project managers can use this same process for project success.

CXO

Internal IT as ‘consultants to the business’: Good idea or bad?

Marc Schiller provides look at what's behind the idea of having IT as internal consultants, and then talks about the pros and the cons of this idea and what it's trying to achieve.

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The secret to succeeding with social media apps in your organization

End the year with a bang and start planning now

A tech discussion your CEO will welcome

How to make your CEO a massive tech advocate, guaranteed!

Your responses to a terrible service delivery example

BIXI: Another example of IT changing the world for the better

How to close an IT project with flair

Beyond storyboarding: Key tips for putting the power back in your PowerPoint

Project management: Simplify with a pre-flight project checklist

Internal IT as ‘consultants to the business’: Good idea or bad?

Employee performance review policy

Employee time off policy

Employee privacy policy

Security response policy