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Promote Self-Management in Your Organization

whitepaper Developing a work environment and supervisory culture that promotes self-management helps employees meet new challenges and take responsibility for their own professional development. Self-managing employees also provide benefits for managers: the...

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[12 May 2008]

Define the Goals of a New-Employee Orientation

whitepaper The most effective orientations help new employees understand what will be expected of them and prepare them for the organization's work culture. Although these sessions should be welcoming, orientations for new employees should also be more than a...

Tags: hr

[12 May 2008]

Caption Competition: Clamped!?

Photo This work of art was on show at the Maker Faire event in San Mateo, a celebration of do-it-yourself culture. Submit a caption for this picture as a Reader Comment below. The funniest one will win a bottle of bubbly.

[09 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment And if I misunderstand your nuance when we share a culture, I will completely misread what you said when our cultures differ. First up this week, readers were engaging in debate over the pros and cons of outsourcing.

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Males in tech willing to show off their wad

News Office insights…   Flexibility the key for women in IT   Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend   Wanted: Women must save IT industry   Long-hours tech culture hits morale  ...

Tags: men, women, salary, pay

[02 May 2008]

Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'

News Office insights…   Flexibility the key for women in IT   Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend   Wanted: Women must save IT industry   Long-hours tech culture hits morale  ...

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

Fostering a Culture of Adaptability: Using Information Technology to Increase Your Company's Agility

whitepaper This document describes how you can foster a culture of adaptability in your organization by using the SAP Business ByDesign solution to engage in a cyclical process of taking stock of your needs, evaluating the necessary changes to your business...

Tags: erp

[02 May 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo There are various levels taught and level 4 (seen at the bottom right for Japanese) involves a six-month residential course so the employee can "soak themselves in the culture", a Wipro spokeswoman said.

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

More Effective Business Service Management with a MetaCMDB

whitepaper These include technologies, processes and a culture that supports higher levels of accountability, as well as more dynamic responsiveness to business needs.This report looks at two of the most fundamental and arguably two of the most conflicted...

Tags: infrastructure management, levels, service management, supports

[25 Apr 2008]

Miserable at work? Live in London? Join the club

News Office insights…   Flexibility the key for women in IT   Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend   Wanted: Women must save IT industry   Long-hours tech culture hits morale  ...

Tags: work, staff, london, survey

[21 Apr 2008]

Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities

Comment Office insights…   Flexibility the key for women in IT   Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend   Wanted: Women must save IT industry   Long-hours tech culture hits morale  ...

Tags: cio agenda

[18 Apr 2008]

Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?

Comment But a culture of weak compliance - or on occasion, determined collusion to beat the system - has rendered this legislation impotent. Experts say investment banking fraud can never be eradicated - even with the most sophisticated software.

Tags: fraud, societe generale, rogue trader

[15 Apr 2008]

Experian embraces open source

News Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, Barbara Fennell, business information security officer at Experian, said: "We began to see a bit of a culture clash forming. Experian is embracing open source software as a major part of its...

Tags: implementation, security, culture, open source

[11 Apr 2008]

Strategies For Success: When Corporate Cultures Clash

whitepaper Too often, mid-sized businesses overlook the effect of corporate culture on the success of enterprise resource planning (ERP). This paper highlights important tips for successful ERP implementations and discusses how corporate culture clashes can...

Tags: back-office, culture, montgomery research, corporate culture

[11 Apr 2008]

See how retail banks can break down the barriers to innovation

whitepaper Retail banking has traditionally been a place where the road to innovation is blocked by numerous barriers: IT, corporate culture, operational limitations and more. But there is an opportunity to break from the past by moving to next-generation...

Tags: architectures, innovation, banking, road

[11 Apr 2008]

How Google keeps its tech security tip top

News Security training is also very much part of the Google culture. Google director of product management Scott Petry - founder of Postini, which is now owned by the search giant - gave the low-down on the web giant's approach to security at the RSA...

Tags: rsa, search, security, google

[10 Apr 2008]

Sarbanes-Oxley: Is Corporate Compliance or Corporate Culture the Solution to Ethical Crises?

whitepaper But creating a vibrant and ethical culture promises not only to increase transparency and accountability. While the Sarbanes Oxley Act may not be the ideal response to recent corporate scandals, it is a predictable response given the impact that...

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, response, ethical, evidence

[10 Apr 2008]

Restructured Environment Serves as the Foundation for Globally Consolidated Management

whitepaper Fuji Photo Film Co.leads the world in the creation of "the culture of images and information. As part of that process, the company aims for "the right people at the right time, able to acquire the newest data in the right format.

Tags: upgrades and migration, sap, stability, photo

[10 Apr 2008]

Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance

whitepaper The paper concludes that an understanding of how and when employee ownership works successfully requires a three-pronged analysis of the incentives that ownership gives, the participative mechanisms available to workers to act on those incentives...

Tags: ownership, employee, incentives, mechanisms

[10 Apr 2008]

Building IT Value through Enterprise Project Management

whitepaper This webcast discusses how to establish an effective Enterprise Project Management (EPM) culture that has provided IT organizations with a significant Return on Investment (ROI). PM Solutions and Microsoft are helping CIOs and IT organizations...

Tags: methodology, enterprise project management, project management, achieve

[10 Apr 2008]

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