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"If
your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior
strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend
to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no
rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in
accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear
where you are not expected. ” – Sun Tzu
Top Picks
Who Says it’s Easy to Make Billions
Steve Ballmer
was egged during a presentation at university in
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9947314-16.html
Does Efficiency in the
“While
driving efficiency is clearly the right thing to do, industry and government
agencies must consider a more holistic view on the cause and effect in the IT
industry. It is important to understand what the drivers are to the perceived
problem of IT power consumption.”
[This
is a very interesting article.]
IT Audit / Internal Audit / Compliance
The Real Price of Payoffs, According to E&Y
“Even
though more companies are being caught using bribery to gain business, the
illicit practice appears to be increasing — as is the cost of being
caught.”
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/11398463?f=alerts
IT Process Improvement / Quality Management
Using ITAM to Save
Money in Tough Times
“With the current economic
downturn in progress, IT organizations are under tremendous pressure to reduce
costs yet still increase the value of the services they are delivering. IT
asset management (ITAM) is a way of doing this.”
http://www.itsmwatch.com/itil/article.php/3744536
Don’t Forget
Organizational Change
“The
reason for this is need is because when we talk about changing existing
processes or adopting new processes, we are actually talking about making
changes that will impact the lives of employees and the culture of the
organization. When implemented, these process changes will range from minor to
major and how employees perceive the costs, benefits, and risks to themselves
will impact the initiative’s ultimate level of success or failure.”
http://blog.itsmwatch.com/gspafford.html
(This
blog post has links to a few articles on organizational change)
ADKAR Organizational Change Management Tutorial
“ADKAR
is a goal-oriented change management model that allows change management teams
to focus their activities on specific business results. The model was
initially used as a tool for determining if change management activities like
communications and training were having the desired results during
organizational change. The model has its origins in aligning traditional change
management activities to a given result or goal.”
http://www.change-management.com/tutorial-adkar-overview.htm
(Thank
you for sending this Paul!)
Security and Risk Management
New attack trend pushes POS encryption to the fore
“The
relatively scant attention that retailers have paid to securing their
point-of-sale systems over the past few years is making the POS setups
increasingly attractive targets for cybercrooks who are looking to steal
payment card data.”
Security Manager's Journal: Security measures have to be
reasonable
“If
you're an information security manager, you have to apply security smarts to
your information security model — sensible security that's in line with
your organization's business, applicable legislation and available resources.”
Healthcare / Bio-Informatics / Care Delivery Organizations
(CDOs)
Contemplating RHIOs: What Health Systems Need to Know
“The
number of regional health information organizations (RHIOs) created in the
http://health-care-it.advanceweb.com/editorial/content/editorial.aspx?CC=72135
Google Gets Into Health
“The
search king announced Monday that consumers can now upload their medical
records to Google Health, its closely-watched health information site.”
Human Error / Safety / Environment
The Symantec 2007 State of the
Respondentss
identified human error as the number one cause of downtime.
http://www.symantec.com/about/news/resources/press_kits/detail.jsp?pkid=sdcreport
[It was
released in October of 2007 and I just ran across it.]
Show me the Green
“Companies
are trumpeting their environmental achievements — even if the motivation
is to sell ‘green’ products rather than be green themselves.”
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/11080084?f=alerts
Superefficient Frankencrops Could Put a Real Dent in
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
“What
some greens deride as Frankencrops are also the only serious hope for biofuels.
Right now, their net carbon benefit is negligible. Corn engineered for high
yields and low fertilizer will help, but even better will be plants under
development whose stalks and leaves can easily be turned into fuel.”
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_06genetic
Globalization / International
“As
the initial chaos of the disaster zones is being replaced by an eerily orderly
rescue and cleanup effort by the military,
Economics / Business / Misc.
Who's to blame for
$4 gas
“Prices have surged over the
past four years - and there's a bunch of reasons why.”
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/20/news/economy/gas_price_history/index.htm?cnn=yes
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