IT Strategy

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• MBS Major Network Revamp

  
  Ministry IT — Authority: 112
  The Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving we began a 2.5 day project to completely revamp our network. Though our staff is small, we serve and provide services to church and ministry clients nationwide, so our network needs are much larger than they might be for a company our size. Heres what we did: After ...
  4 days ago

• Retailers Suing POS Vendor, Questions Raised As To Where PCI Duties Stop

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 530
  Now that a PCI lawsuit brought by four restaurants against a POS vendor and a systems integrator has been given class-action status, the case will survive and force a very interesting debate about exactly where a retailers PCI liability should start. The case involves four Louisiana restaurant groups—doing business ...
  4 days ago

• The Best Way To Stop Marketing From Getting Around IT: Teach ‘Em

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 530
  In the past, the relationship between marketing and IT was often strained by marketers seemingly innate attraction to the “shiny new toy” and IT’s needs to follow structure, process and sometimes even a project plan (Gasp!). This tension, pens Franchisee Columnist Todd Michaud, was only made worse as marketing ...
  5 days ago

• Tech Standards? Or The Wild, Wild, West Of IT?

  
  A Dime a Dozen Small Business, Tech and Talk — Authority: 122
  Gary Hamel writing on the Wall Street Journal blog blasts corporate IT departments for enforcing technology standards with a post titled; Why Don’t IT Departments Give Employees More Freedom? The premise is that if the best tool for the job is something that an employee provides themselves, or downloads from the ...
  5 days ago

• An NRF StorefrontBacktalk Reader Get-Together?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 530
  By any chance, are you planning to attend the NRF Bigshow (New York City, January 10-13, 2010)? StorefrontBacktalk would love to arrange a casual get-together with our readers at or near the show, so were trying to determine how many readers are both attending the show and might be interested in connecting with us ...
  5 days ago

• Domino’s Gets E-Commerce Creative

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 530
  Domino’s is seeing a huge increase in online sales—a critical and fiercely competitive arena for national pizza chains today—after it allowed consumers to see a real-time interactive graphic that depicts their pizza order, adding or subtracting toppings and the corresponding price adjustments. It also throws in ...
  6 days ago

• PCI Human Train Wreck Coming Next Year For Level 2s

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 530
  Many Level 2 merchants are just now realizing that their PCI world has changed. Under rules announced this summer, Level 2 MasterCard merchants—like their Level 1 brethren—will require an onsite assessment by a QSA starting in 2010. But how big a difference, asks PCI Columnist Walter Conway, is there really ...
  6 days ago

• A Gift Card Good For 100 Competing Retailers?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 530
  A group of about 100 competing restaurants in Connecticut is trying an experiment: Each is putting out a joint gift card, one that would theoretically be much more attractive because it would give consumers far more choices. Could this idea possibly have value beyond food? Restaurants are, by their nature, very ...
  6 days ago

• Book Review: IT Savvy

  
  A Dime a Dozen Small Business, Tech and Talk — Authority: 122
  I recently finished IT Savvy by Peter Weill, and Jeanne W. Ross. An excellent book, but I actually had to debate writing this review. Quite simply, this blog is dedicated to you, the hard working executives and managers in the SMB space. And this text is applicable only to the largest SMB’s , with heavy emphasis ...
  6 days ago

• EHR & The Ghost of Technologies Past

  
  IT Business Alignment — Authority: 92
  “It’s like déjà-vu all over again” Yogi Berra famously once said, and yes, it is. We’ve been here before.  The promise of a new technology the will create so many efficiencies – too many to count.  It will make everyone’s life so much ‘easier’ and allow the organization to make unprecedented ...
  6 days ago

• Bridging the Business-IT Gap – Can you avoid the Toll?

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 148
  How many times have you heard this from IT; “… if the business would just tell us what their REAL requirements are, we could deliver systems that support their goals”, or this; “If IT would ju read more
  1 week ago

• Why Your Product Demo May Be Worthless

  
  A Dime a Dozen Small Business, Tech and Talk — Authority: 122
  For B2B vendors that are in the business of selling software, One common method of driving customers to your product is providing a time limited, demonstration version of that product. This can be a great way to let prospects try before they buy . When done correctly and simply, It can give prospective customers a ...
  1 week ago

• Assumptions

  
  The Committee of Public Safety — Authority: 490
  Links to my assumptions series: Assumptions: Desire Assumptions: Adaption Assumptions: Control Assumptions: Power Assumptions: Complex Adaptive Systems Assumptions: OODA Loop Assumptions: Orientation Assumptions: Decision Assumptions: Adaption Stack Assumptions: Culture ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dark For 28 Hours: Burlington’s Web Gambit

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 530
  Leaving online shoppers out in the cold with no warnings or explanations (or coats, if thats what they wanted to buy), Burlington Coat Factory took its Web site offline all day Wednesday (Nov. 18)—plus at least four hours—for a planned outage as the $3.5 billion clothing retailer performed an extensive hardware ...
  2 weeks ago

• C’mon, You Don’t Really Need All That Money, Do You?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 530
  Who doesn’t love the fall season?, asks Franchisee Columnist Todd Michaud. The leaves are falling off the trees, football season is in full swing and budgets are up in the air. What would the fall season be if it weren’t for questions like, “Can’t you just squeeze it in?” or “Can’t we just do that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Competitive Pressures and Value Propositions, Is Lean the Answer?

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 148
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  2 weeks ago

• Being Able to Use Tech Isn’t the Same as Knowing How to Use It

  
  Sazbean — Authority: 133
  There’s this notion flying around in the real world that if you’re able to use a certain technology – say Twitter – you also know how to use it.  What I mean by how to use it is using it in a way to accomplish some sort of goal – like increasing sales for your business.  Being able to use any technology is ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Article: Five Things To Do This Month

  
  Ministry IT — Authority: 112
  I’m asked to write a ‘five things to do this month’ annually for The Clergy Journal. Click here to download a free PDF copy of the quick sidebar article ... I hope you find it helpful!
  2 weeks ago

• Business Manageres look to IT Departments to add value

  
  IT Leadership Blog — Authority: 104
  According to eWeek , an overwhelming 96% of midside businesses see their IT Departments as a strategic part of their business. Managers who are not in IT see that remote access for their workers are more productive. They are also seeing that it is important for a company to be mobile. Does your company look at IT ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Article: Annual Church & Donor Management Software List & Feature Chart

  
  Ministry IT — Authority: 112
  I get the privilege of publishing an annual article listing those leading the field of church and donor management software and their products features. We found 62 software companies focusing on the church and ministry management market this year, but only 34 qualified to be included in the article (remember, these ...
  3 weeks ago

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