discipline
The Economics of Information Security: A Survey and Open Questions
White Paper The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with divergent interests, one finds incentives... [11 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Put more business in IT education
Comment Know-how also varies greatly depending on the environment and discipline - and the generalist education is woefully inept at preparing young minds to apply technical skills in specialised environments. [12 Oct 2009]
Information Risk Management in Financial Services
White Paper Security is the heart of the sound yet flexible information risk management discipline required in the global financial services industry today. Given the speed and interconnectedness of business, managing risk to ensure... [06 Oct 2009]
KOALA in Depth: Accountability - Foundation for Stakeholder Engagement
White Paper Asset accountability is more than simple assignment tracking - it's going to the effort to understand who the key stakeholders for an asset or service are, then maintaining the discipline to include the right people in... [19 Sep 2009]
Implementation and Use of Transactional Memory With Dynamic Separation
White Paper The paper introduces the design and implementation of Dynamic Separation (DS) as a programming discipline for using transactional memory. The approach is based on the programmer indicating which objects can be updated in... [16 Sep 2009]
Educating for Global Competitiveness
White Paper One must help in creating innovative, educational institutions of the 21st century where technology infuses every part of the curriculum, where creativity and innovation are fostered in every discipline, and where... [16 Sep 2009]
Business Interfaces, Performance Networks - And a New View of Alignment
White Paper Performance management has traditionally been a hierarchical discipline, one that follows a top-down approach. Organizations roll up budgets, cascade scorecards, drill down to locate deviations from the plan. [02 Sep 2009]
Business Value of BI
White Paper It starts with an understanding of business value based on a scientific model, the Traecey and Wiersema business value discipline model, and a pragmatic model, the Logica Enterprise Value Management model. [02 Sep 2009]
Mastering Channel Strategy: Six Rules for Successful Formulation and Execution
White Paper Exploiting channel options to the full, and hooking them up to the organisation's delivery capabilities, are the concerns of channel strategy - a practical new discipline that belongs at the heart of every mature... [30 Aug 2009]
The Rise of Analytical Performance Management
White Paper Performance management (sometimes called "Enterprise performance management" or "Corporate performance management") is a thriving industry, with an academic discipline to support it (management accounting), a class of... [30 Aug 2009]
Why Software License Management Is so Difficult - And How to Simplify It
White Paper As such, organizations can promote a stronger internal compliance discipline, harness a better understanding of current licensing processes and reduce the costs associated with software license management as a whole. [15 Aug 2009]
Security Reference Guide
White Paper On the other hand, like all areas of IT, security as a discipline constantly builds on itself, rarely taking a step backward. For better or worse, the security field changes rapidly. It differs from mainstream IT work in... [23 Jul 2009]
Address Today#$#s Pressing Education Challenges With Flexible, Low-Cost, Energy-Saving Networking Solutions
White Paper Public and private schools across the U.S.are facing some downright brutal choices when it comes to staffing, budgeting, personal security and discipline. On one hand, students, staff and visitors need to be protected... [11 Jul 2009]
Information Security Control Centralization and IT Governance for Enterprises
White Paper It is a subset discipline of Corporate Governance focused on Information Technology (IT) systems and their performance and risk management. Information Technology (IT) governance is important in every Enterprise to... [30 Jun 2009]
Naked CIO: Should you monitor staff?
Comment Or do you allow access but discipline staff and employees when they cross the line of what is acceptable? Keeping watch over employees' online activities can be a slippery slope, says Naked CIO. Here's the right way to... [29 Jun 2009]