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This post from Computer News Middle East illustrates the birth and rise of larger efforts in IT Governance within the Middle East: from fledgling efforts to increased budget and direct application. According to the article’s author Pallavi Sharma, Middle East IT Firms are beginning to better understand the importance of IT Governance and how it can allow them to be global competitors.

This post from CIO provides four governance best practices that all CIOs must consider. Utilizing the experiences of CIOs in various areas of business, the article illustrates the need to confirm expectations, allowing top execs to set IT priority, communicating progress, constant monitoring.

IT governanceis a subset of enterprise governance. It is:… It is widely recognized that IT governance should be an integral part of enterprise …Read More

Almost half of CIOs said their organizations will use more tablets in the next two years, according to a recent survey. Surveyors sponsored by IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology…Read More

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In this blog post, Tina Abplanalp begins a sprawling series which covers the details of the A.W.A.R.E. formula which can be derived from the book FYI for Insight™. Abplanalp provides practical, real world ways that organizational leaders can become more aware of their leadership – and more aware of how to make it better.

Vendors collect an immense amount of data before making a large sale to your organization – don’t you think it’s wise to do the same when choosing vendors? This article by Steve Huffman gives practical, do-it-now advice for gaining insight through earnings calls. You can learn about what product lines are selling, where there are backlogs, and what projections look like.

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The Air Force will get support for its combat systems from Lockheed Martin, which will integrate commercial, open source and government software components…Read More

iHealth Beat presents this article to better explain why and how hospitals are turning to a more sophisticated IT systems to manage the large scale and often complicated recalls experienced in modern medicine. Since the cost of recall often falls on the hospital itself, having an optimized system for recall saves time and money down the line.

Written by Ravi Mandalia, this blog post cites a recent survey which found “around 90 percent of the companies used Microsoft’s System Centre, IBM Tivoli or HP OpenView to manage their corporate IT infrastructure but around 80 percent of these companies also deployed additional VMware virtualisation management tools as their IT management systems failed to offer the desired level of control.”

Not too far back because we can’t afford to not know the technology, … with a goal of making best practices around IT management more easily shared …Read More

This whitepaper from CA expresses the importance of making ever asset utilized by an organization count – truly a Lean IT practice all should strive to achieve. Explaining the importance of labor division, asset management discipline and the payoff of achieving both, the whitepaper is a great point to start when considering the benefits of a streamlined organization.

Using the findings of a survey by BMC and Salesforce in 2010, this blog article begins the series showing how Software as a Service can benefit a small to mid-range company in the long run. In particular, the survey found that those using SaaS encountered savings between 10 and 50 percent.