Scope creep a major issue for Singapore CTOs and CIOs
Prominent causes for scope creep include poor project management, staff continuity and changing regulatory environment.
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Prominent causes for scope creep include poor project management, staff continuity and changing regulatory environment.
Read more...How a small, fast SWAT team is improving performance at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Read more...Sunil Desai, Director for Managed Services at Dimension Data Asia Pacific, points out that the bulk of support-related expenses fall outside the scope of traditional support offerings. It is important therefore to identify and eliminate 'hidden' expenses.
Read more...The IT world is no stranger to projects that go down in flames. In fact, anyone who has had the unenviable pleasure of participating in a failed IT effort likely sensed its demise well before the go-live date. That sixth sense is invaluable in a competitive field like IT -- but only if it is acted on promptly and professionally.
Read more...The oil giant has now extended the deployment to new parts of the business
Read more...Five warning signs can warn you that your project team has turned toxic.
Read more...George Carlin made phrases like 'jumbo shrimp' famous. But the need to control agile projects is no joke. Ask the right questions along the way, though, and you'll bring order to a process than can easily turn chaotic.
Read more...Forrester held its European Business Technology Forum in London this week -- a convocation ofCIOs, Enterprise Architects, Infrastructure and Operations Professionals, Security and Risk Professionals, and Sourcing and Vendor Management Professionals.
Read more...Just lamenting is not enough to save human privacy and dignity.
Read more...The IT services industry is being challenged on two opposite fronts.
Read more...Coca-Cola recently announced that it is jumping into the red-hot Indian online retail arena by selling directly to consumers and small businesses
Read more...Maps are only growing in importance as they become the primary portal on mobile phones for a growing list of information and services.
Read more...In fast growing financial services companies, essential information has to be delivered promptly, so do vital new information systems. At CITIC Securities, a flexible, high performance network infrastructure was needed quickly to keep up with demand driven by the rapidly expanding Chinese economy.
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Looks at some of the most pressing challenges cloud computing presents in terms of service level management
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DownloadRecounting the CTO Telecom Summit's peer-to-peer roundtable, this paper shares CIOs' challenges and best practices in effective customer data management.
DownloadFeaturing a matrix of different features that will help you identify and select which Transition products best meet your remote monitoring requirements.
DownloadAs IT departments across the world move more virtualization into their datacenters, they face new challenges about best practices. Myths about virtual server and data protection have risen, and it is time to debunk at least seven of them.
This paper provides a basic understanding of business continuity—from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right software solution.
Migrating applications, systems and data has always been a challenge for IT staff; most have just gotten used to the pain that comes with migrations. To properly migrate applications and data to new platforms involves risk and takes time to complete.
Replication technology enables information sharing between primary and backup servers. This whitepaper discusses different replication methodologies and how they pair up with multi-tiered computing environments.
Based on responses from 1,836 information security executives in 64 countries the 2012 GISS suggests that organizations are taking steps to enhance their information security capabilities but few are keeping up with an ever-changing risk landscape.

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