- On Demand! Start transforming your IT organization into a strategic business partner! This webcast will help you: learn how service operations management can leverage efficiencies though task and process automation; understand closed-loop requests, change and configuration management; reduce risk by tying service desk and change functions with identity management; discover how governance plays a key role in improving service operations outcomes; and understand how ITIL v3 can help shape a better service operations environment.
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Business Alignment 
From Blackberry's to Web 2.0—even cloak and dagger organizations cannot resist the allure (and effectiveness) of commodity IT.
- A new report from the IT Process Institute says you’ve got to know what IT value archetype model you fall into in order to enable business execution strategy success.
- ITIL v3’s Service Asset and Configuration Management and IT asset management are complementary but distinct, writes George Spafford.
- Since no single product can do it all, try this multi-dimensional approach from Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates.
Project Management
Quality, writes PM Planet columnist Jed Simms.
- PMO is a lot more than a catch phrase, writes columnist Michelle LaBrosse of Cheetah Learning.
- PMs are often overlooked as strategic because they don’t understand and communicate their value to the organization, writes Morris Panner.
- Your software development efforts will be a lot more successful by integrating the idea of real people into your projects.
Staff Management
The various efforts to boost the number of women in IT are well intentioned but doomed to failure.
- Everyone says we're in it, so now what do you do about it?
- Keeping key employees really comes down to finding out who they are and what they like. And it’s more important than ever.
- Use these five tips to hire the right person, with the right skills for what you really need, writes Katherine Spencer Lee of Robert Half Technology.
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Conferences Highlight the Emerging SaaS Cloud
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