The View from Here: Improving the Business Shouldn’t Put Anyone to Sleep
July 30, 2008
IT and other departments must communicate in order to successfully deploy VoIP, unified communications and other sexy applications. But improving communications can pay even greater dividends when the light shines on more subtle–some might say dull–areas.
Risk Management, a Real World Tool, Goes Beyond Simple Security
June 23, 2008
Security best practices are great, but they can’t provide comprehensive protection. Gordon Burnes, the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for OpenPages, says risk management is a more expansive endeavor in which organizations prioritize by assessing the potential of an event occurring and the damage it will result if it does.
Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning: Not Just IT’s Job
June 16, 2008
No sensible executive minimizes the need for a robust disaster plan. There are many ways to get ready, however. A priority, according to Sonasoft VP Vas Srinivasan, is to get the CFO involved in the process. If everything is left in IT’s lap, the final plan may not protect all the data and assets the organization considers vital.
ROI Success Through Business Analysis
June 2, 2008
Projects have a tendency to go off track. The organization is best served if all departments — including IT — tightly script corporate undertakings so that they satisfy the organization’s goals and meet its ROI requirements. Glenn Brûlé, the Director of Client Solutions for ESI International, says that there are five steps to ensuring the best outcome.
Podcast: Using Time(sheet Software) Wisely
May 21, 2008
Time sheet data is one of the most valuable commodities that a company owns. Journyx CEO Curt Finch says that this information can be instrumental in transforming IT, HR and accounting from cost to profit centers.
Human Resources Goes Global
May 12, 2008
IT should be the HR department’s greatest ally as organizations globalize. However, it doesn’t always happen that way, says HRToolbox’s Thomas Shelton. The two departments often have conflicting goals and speak different languages. HR, he suggests, can get more of what it wants by improving its knowledge of how IT operates.
The Other Kind of Disaster Preparedness
May 9, 2008
May 2, 2008 (Computerworld) Even though more than a quarter of companies have faced a disaster over the past five years, according to Forrester Research Inc., IT managers must still do a better job at convincing business leaders to invest in disaster recovery systems. Forrester analyst Stephanie Balaouras said managers must work to convince corporate [...]
Read more »Ensuring Employees Fulfill Compliance-Related Tasks
April 30, 2008
New rules and regulations put unprecedented pressure on executives. The result, says Steve Pugh, the CEO of CODA Financials in the Americas, is that lots of time and money are spent on processes and procedures designed to create a compliance structure. Some organizations miss the key step of ensuring that employees actually carry out their assigned tasks. The good news is that tools exist. The better news is that they contribute to the company’s overall health.
Choosing the Right Backup Vendor Requires IT/Finance Cooperation
April 14, 2008
Companies calling on their backup and recovery providers probably have already received one surprise: Their systems are down or data has been lost. Storagepipe President and CEO Steven Rodin suggests that cooperation between IT and Finance can avoid more surprises, such as unexpectedly high costs or a set of services that don’t truly provide what the company needs.
Don’t Forget Account Reconciliation
March 25, 2008
The often-forgotten stepchild of regulatory compliance efforts, account reconciliation is a vital task that demands attention. Heather Lynds, the Director of Accounting Compliance Technology for This a link to Trintech, says that great strides have been made that allow far more efficient operations while cutting costs and meeting the most important goal: Fulfilling compliance mandates.
