Organize for Virtualization Success

A virtualized environment offers the ability to achieve significant scalability. Benchmarks and heuristics can help you assess the future state model for your organization post-implementation. ...

... "Management team: 15 percent of IT groups are creating a dedicated team, often called the virtual computing team, that brings together experts from various IT disciplines to manage the overall virtualization effort ... " ...

Via CIO: Benchmarks

Benchmark Project Best Practices

Opportunity to do some benchmarking and gain insights on best practices. Never mind that it's in Vegas. ...

... "Fall 2007 Benchmarking Forum, IT Project Management Best Practices: The two-day knowledge-sharing event, which will be held at the Bellagio Las Vegas, September 18-19, is designed to provide IT project practitioners with new insights about what's working in IT project management, what's not, and how to move forward. " ...

Center for Business Practices to Host IT Project Management Best Practices Forum

Methods to Value IT

Insights on valuing IT and its investments range from tracking benefits, articulating the intangible benefits, and beating benchmarks. Traditional measures are shifting to options valuation. And, portfolio management could benefit from program management. ... All interesting perspectives. ...

... "In other words, looking at relative IT spending does not tell you whether a bank is an advanced or an inefficient consumer of IT. That's the economic theory. " ...

Via CIO Asia: IT Value