Aligning Business and IT to Deliver Results (Part 2)

June 11, 2015 Michelle Moore Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Successful business-IT alignment requires more than a good relationship between the chief information officer (CIO) and other C-level executives. To realize the full benefits that successful business-IT alignment can deliver, there needs to be alignment at three levels.

Aligning Business and IT to Deliver Results (Part 1)

June 8, 2015 Michelle Moore Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Technology has become the driving force of business as organizations look to IT to innovate business models, improve customer intimacy and deliver superior business results in a competitive and complex environment. In order to fully leverage the benefits technology can deliver, business and technical stakeholders need to collaborate in new and different ways, which requires different skills and knowledge for both parties.

What You Need to Know about Configuration Management

October 29, 2013 James Michael Stewart Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Configuration management is the managed maintenance of known configurations of EVERYTHING: code, systems, appliances, work flows, facilities, HVAC, etc. Keeping track of, confirming, testing, backing up, verifying, restoring, and documenting configurations across the organization is essential to maintaining stability, consistency, reliability, and security.