Implementing Knowledge Management: Practitioners Share Best Practices
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(Source: Inquira)  An effective knowledge management (KM) implementation can boost support efficiency and customer satisfaction. Or it can be a colossal expense that yields little return. What makes the difference? Find out from organizations that have undertaken a successful KM initiative. Get ten best practices that have been proven to help ensure a winning implementation.
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A medical center CIO shares best practices when PDAs, BlackBerries, smart phones and the like must be hooked up to your network.
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The leading vendors in the data warehousing market are running scared of new entrants to the market that are offering data warehouse appliances (i.e. pre-integrated hardware, software, storage combinations) that can offer greatly superior performance at a significantly lower price.  In this white paper we will dispel the 'fog of war' that currently pervades the data warehousing landscape, dismissing those question marks that are irrelevant and gratuitous, but highlighting any genuine issues that need to be addressed.
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Implementers from The Hartford, American Express and Honeywell Aerospace swapped best-practice tips and tricks at a recent conference.
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IT executives must learn business skills, and how to teach those skills to the next generation of managers. Too many look outside for help instead of training their own.
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There's a lot of data out there, but using it wisely is a challenge. In this Executive Briefing, we look at the theory and practice of data-driven decision making. We hear from experts and examine successful implementations of information management technologies.
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Investor's Business Daily - Knowledge management is about the past and present -- using information that already exists. Idea management is geared to the future. It collects ideas from all workers in a firm, then vaults the best concepts to market.
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Right-time business intelligence is all about delivering the right information in the right format to the right people at the right time for decision-making purposes .In this report, we present an in-depth case study describing the right-time BI solution implemented by Sybase customer Shopzilla to improve the effectiveness of business decisions.  The company uses Sybase IQ to capture and access merchant consumer survey data in a data warehouse.
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The ubiquity of consumer-grade, public instant messaging clients and the emergence of enterprise instant messaging servers has challenged IT organization to develop management policies that deal with the corporate IM landscape as it exists today.  Download this white paper as a guide to learn best practices for effectively managing the risks and costs associated with the corporate use of IM.
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Should businesses replace post-mortems with âpre-mortems?â Adopt âcounterintuitive management practices?â And more...
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Sometimes culture clash can be a productive thing. For instance, handing a flexible collaborative package such as Microsoft's SharePoint to a bunch of Marines -- not the most flexibility-oriented organization around -- is leading to good changes for the service. The path to productivity was, however, not the usual orderly march.
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Why change, when what you're doing works so remarkably well? Right -- that strategy is change.
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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.
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Products give business people and programmers a shared language that helps them implement changes quickly.
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Raphael Stolt has posted a book review of one of Manning Publishing's PHP-related books, "PHP in Action: Modern Software Practices for PHP".   Over the last few days I got the chance to skim through the upcoming Manning release "PHP in Action: Modern Software Practices for PHP" by Dagfinn ReiersÃ¸l et al. The reviewed book is seperated into four main parts, covering lots of interesting topics in a good and fluent writing style.   Raphael outlines the book, mentioning the four parts the book is divided up into:  Basic PHP tools and concepts Developing applications via Test Driven Development Web presentation and user interfaces Object-oriented development including things like database abstraction  Raphael gives the book a positive rating and recommends it for anyone that has the basics down and is looking to extend their knowledge that much more.
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David Wheeler presents an introduction to the Bricolage content management system (CMS).
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Readers offer their own ideas on what should be included in a list of dead or dying skills for IT professionals.