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January 28, 2010

Plan Your Hardware or Software Release To Keep Everything Running Smoothly

Before you're ready to let new hardware or software "go live" in your organization, you need to protect the existing system until everything is properly configured. That calls for a plan.   A ne... More >

January 27, 2010

Agile Development Gains Traction

Blogger Ann All wrote about a recent survey by Forrester Research in which 46 percent of IT pros said agile software development was used at their companies.   She describes it this way: Unlik... More >

January 25, 2010

Start the New Year with Clean Intellectual Property

The new year presents a prime time to start anew with clean IP in mind , writes Katherine Chin Quee, a legal consultant at IP management company Protecode , in a guest opinion piece. She writes: [R... More >

January 22, 2010

Find Short-Term Projects, a Full-Time Job or Start Your Own Business

Finding a job is always tough, but 2009 gave that description added meaning with seemingly unrelenting layoffs all around. Outplacement company Challenger, Gray & Christmas put the number of ann... More >

January 21, 2010

Craft Strong Policy for Use of Facebook, Twitter

Manchester United became the latest sports club to forbid its players to use social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and commandeered the sites of some players. The club issued the sta... More >

January 19, 2010

Revisiting Disaster Planning

Try to meld in your mind the grim pictures coming in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake and these grim figures from Symantec: In a survey of small and medium-sized businesses in North America, 58 ... More >

January 14, 2010

Flowchart Helps Keep Projects on Track

The Knowledge Network continues to get richer in resources on project management.   The latest addition: project management expert Michael Taylor has provided a cross-functional flowchart that... More >

January 12, 2010

Indiana University Spells Out Policy on Misuse of IT Assets

Another IT policy document from Indiana's University Information Policy Office has been added to the Knowledge Network. You can check out its policy on misuse and abuse of information technology res... More >

January 11, 2010

Improve Meetings to Save Time, Money

The down economy forced many companies to cut travel budgets, giving a leg up to strategies such as telepresence .   But as Roger Courville , co-founder and principal of 1080 Group, LLC told... More >

January 8, 2010

Make Your Case for a Contingency Fund

In a post on innovation, IT Business Edge's Ann All advocates the project portfolio management approach of Colin Ashurt, senior teaching fellow at Durham Business School.   Ashurt, in a column... More >

January 7, 2010

Improving Energy Efficiency as You Build Your Data Center

The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding $47 million for 14 projects across the country to improve energy efficiency in IT and communications, writes Julius Neudorfer on our CTO Edge Site . Recipie... More >

January 4, 2010

Get a Jump On the New Year With Green IT

Perhaps one of your company's New Year's resolutions was to launch a green IT program. To get advice on how to launch this program, look no further than IT Business Edge's Knowledge Network where Ter... More >

Indiana University's IT Policies Coming to Knowledge Network

Indiana's University Information Policy Office has uploaded its Appropriate Use of Information Technology Resources Policy to the Knowledge Network. Students, teachers and alumni take advantage of ... More >

January 1, 2010

Few Government Agencies Adopt Social Networking Policies

IT Business Edge editor Lora Bentley has kept a close eye over the past year on social networking policies in the workplace .  In a recent post, Bentley touches on government social networking poli... More >

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