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<item><title>BPM Keeps Pace With Business Changes</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:05:44 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Business Process Management is increasingly critical as companies struggle to keep up with  fast-evolving markets.   -  
Walk into one of the Athletes Performance fitness centers
scattered around the country, and youll find that each computer-controlled
piece of exercise equipment has been updated with the specific settings and
instructions for each regular client. Enabling its highly skilled trainers to
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<item><title>Eight Ways Top Companies Beat the Competition With IT</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:33:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Top-performing companies are top performers in IT, too. Enterprises ranking in the highest quartile for annual revenue, growth, profitability and innovation, and with revenue growth of more than 5% in the past year, says PwC, are better at measuring data, interacting with customers via mobile tools, and mobilizing applications to the cloud, among other things. &quot;Raising a firm's digital IQ means improving the way it leverages technologies and channels to meet customer needs,&quot; says John Sviokla, principal at PwC. &quot;The core of the ecosystem for innovation has moved from inside the firm to out in the marketplace. Customer and employee expectations are being shaped by this environment -- if you miss this trend you will be increasingly irrelevant to the market.&quot; Some 500 U.S. companies with revenues over $500 million took part in the research, with half of respondents being business executives and the other half from IT. For more about the survey,
click here.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>10 Outrageous Expense Report Items</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:44:20 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We know your expense reports include only items necessary for business, but some people are downright shameless.  Robert Half Management Resources turned up some incredible examples of reimbursement requests when surveying roughly 1,600 CFOs in the U.S. and Canada. &quot;While these examples may seem incredible and in some cases humorous, they highlight a serious matter which can negatively impact a company's bottom line,&quot; says Paul McDonald, senior executive director of Robert Half Management Resources. &quot;Employees who are unsure if an item can be expensed should not include it on a report and hope it gets approved. Companies can help the process by writing clear policies, making them easy to find and keeping workers informed of any changes.&quot; For a complete list of items,
click here.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>10 Business Lessons from the Super Bowl</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:44:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl XLVI is nearly upon us, but theres still time for a list of X lessons for business and IT derived from previous iterations of the big game. The event itself represents a major business success: More than 110 million Americans tuned in last year, and ads go for $3.5 million each. The game was once so low-key that it featured college marching bands at halftime; these days, youll get the likes of Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Prince, U2 and (this year) Madonna. The game itself, magnified by media exposure, has transformed players and coaches into legends. Some of their stories translate well to a business environment, whether you favor the New England Patriots or the New York Giants (or neither) on Sunday.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Businesses Learn to Love Consumer IT</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:26:40 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Managers and IT folks freaked out when workers started bringing their smartphones and tablets to work. Now? Not so much, according to a survey from Avanade. See also 10 Ways IT Deals With Consumer Technology. Users expect organizations to green-light and even support the use of personal devices, and many shops are happy to oblige. “Progressive CIOs and IT organizations have moved from gatekeepers of consumer technology to enablers of these innovative devices, applications and services,” says Tyson Hartman, Avanades global chief technology officer. “The consumerization of IT can transform the role of IT from a function focused on mitigating risk into a strategic enabler that leverages the breadth of todays powerful consumer technologies to drive business results.” More than 600 global C-Suite level execs, IT decision makers and business-unit leaders took part in the research. For more about the survey, click here.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Will Move For Food, Workers Say</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:51:11 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Have career, will travel? You might need to relocate for the right job, and a survey from CareerBuilder says a lot of people are willing to do so. The good news: many companies are willing to pay moving expense to fill talent gaps. “One of the key trends we saw coming out of the recession is the movement of labor in and out of markets across the U.S.,” said Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder. “Workers have had to expand their job search geographically and employers in need of hard-to-find, skilled talent have had to recruit across state lines.” Many movers say new surroundings enhance their personal lives in addition to their careers. To help employees get a better sense of which markets are right for their skills and better evaluate cost-of-living and other considerations, CareerBuilder launched CareerRelocate.com. More than 3,000 employers and 7,000 workers took part in the research. Now, if people could just sell their homes.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Social Media: Frontier for Employee Disputes</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:49:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Human behavior doesnt change with technology.   -  
Ten years ago, employers struggled to adapt their policies
to the Internet and email. Today, the new frontier is social media. 
With new technology and communication avenues come new
obligations to police and regulate those same avenues in the workplace.
Although each workplace is different an...]]></description>
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<item><title>Integrating Contingent Workers</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:44:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A fast-growing category of workers requires special care and handling.   -  
We all have busy days where we dont have the time and
resources to supervise our employees but were counting on them to get the job
done anyway. Its an acceptable scenario in many cases, but it rarely works
when its the same day a contingent employee begins his or her assignment.
Theyve receiv...]]></description>
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<item><title>Data Integration Enables Cloud Success</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:42:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A big pharmacy service company gets good results and lower costs.   -  
At AWPRx, we work with 95 percent of U.S. pharmacies to help
workers compensation beneficiaries fill prescriptions and manage claims
online. We manage these prescriptions on behalf of our clients: insurance
companies, self-insured employers and third-party administrators. 
Our software validat...]]></description>
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<item><title>Transform IT to Transform the Business</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:27:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A fundamental approach to making IT a major driver of innovation.   -  
Corporations operate based on the assumption of continuity,
developing processes to drive efficiency over the long haul, but often ignoring
the vital need for constant transformation. As a result, most cannot change or
create value at the pace and scale of the markets. 
CEOs, who are largely c...]]></description>
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<item><title>Choosing New Year`s Resolutions</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:17:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With so many challenges facing businesspeople in 2012, its not easy to decide which ones to tackle first. Here are some suggestions.   -  The start of a new year is always a good time to resolve to
make both our professional and personal lives more efficient, organized and
saner. Its a nice idea, isnt it?
Unfortunately, when it comes to our jobs, many of us can
barely find the time to manage the things we have to do, never mind th...]]></description>
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<item><title>Hospital CIOs Bring More MD to IT</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:14:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Defining a critical role as healthcare goes high tech.   -  
What is a hospital CIO? The definition of “an IT strategist
and a deployer of systems” might have fit the bill at one time, but not
anymore or, at least, not exclusively. Todays hospital CIO must also help
drive a significant change in medical informatics. 
Increasingly, physicians are using e...]]></description>
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<item><title>Hospitals Make Healthy IT Investments</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:12:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The health care industry continues to invest heavily in Information Technology in an effort to improve patient care and get a handle on rising medical costs.   -  
Seton Healthcare Family, in central Texas, is using business
analytics (BA) and business intelligence (BI) to diagnose and solve a problem
every hospital faces: costly readmissions. 
The Austin-based health care provider which has 38 clinical
locations, including 11 hospitals is mining patient...]]></description>
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<item><title>Ten Ways to Eliminate Drama from Projects</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:35:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Unrealistic expectations. Impossible deadlines. Fickle managers. No wonder big projects stress everyone out. A certain amount of tension is to be expected, given that only one-third of IT projects are considered successful and one-quarter get canceled before theyre completed. So why add to the excitement? In the book, No-Drama Project Management: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success (Apress/available now), author Bart Gerardi focuses on the human side of projects, from top-level managers to the folks in the trenches. Relationships, it seems, are as important as technology. “People have likened being a project manager to being one part professional bull fighter, one part air-traffic controller, one part toddler daycare director, and one part therapist,” he writes. Gerardi is a veteran program manager in the e-commerce industry. For more about the book,
click here.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>How Marriott Got Marketing Right</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:38:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What began as a simple database of logos and marketing collateral has evolved into a robust enterprise-wide marketing automation system.   -  Marriott International operates more than 3,500 hotel
properties worldwide under its portfolio of brands. Our evolving lineup
includes brands such as Marriott Hotels  amp; Resorts, JW Marriott,
Renaissance, Edition, Autograph Collection and Courtyard by Marriott, among
others. Our properties fal...]]></description>
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