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Building a Community within IT
posted by Heath Buckmaster on November 07, 2007 at IT@Intel
Back at the beginning of the year, the managers of my organization had a dilemma and they needed someone to help solve it. Now, I’ve got 16 direct reports which is already a full time job, but their need was...
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tagged: blog, communities, forums, informationtechnology, it, socialmedia, socialnetworks, web20, wiki
Comparing your performance
posted by Tomas Mcinernery on October 17, 2007 at IT@Intel
Thought I would post again about the performance team I’m part of – working to put new tools in place to identify, amongst other thing what applications are impacting our client system performance and thus user productivity...
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tagged: client, it, performance, platform
Intel's Layered Approach to Information Security & Risk Management
posted by Laurie Buczek on September 27, 2007 at IT@Intel
Malcom Harkins, General Manager, Intel Risk Security, recently gave an inside look into Intel IT’s risk management philosophy during Intel IDF 2007 and spoke with Jason Lopez from Podtech....
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tagged: idf2007, informationsecurity, inteldeveloperforum, it, riskassessment, riskmanagement, security
Intel rock music videos? Check one more sign of the apocalypse!
posted by Jeff Moriarty on July 23, 2007 at IT@Intel
I think the most entertaining thing about being in the Web 2.0/Social Media cult in Intel isn’t the free matching footwear or unlimited refills at the Kool-Aid bar, it’s working with all the other kooks in this space. We all...
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tagged: client, it, manageability, video, vpro, youtube
Business to IT: What are you worth to me?
posted by Tomas Mcinernery on June 18, 2007 at IT@Intel
As IT groups come under (further) pressure to reduce costs and provide more generic flexible solutions to their businesses some thoughts on how to get to know your customer, and show them how IT is not just the fix it...
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tagged: chimps, it, outsource
Guacamole-Proof Point Of Sale
posted by Sean Deuby on May 16, 2007 at IT@Intel
Most people get dressed up for Mother’s day and take Mom to brunch. We donned cycling shorts and rode to a Tex-Mex restaurant at the other end of the bike trail. Nothing like a good ride to give you the...
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tagged: guacamole, it, pointofsale, tabletpc
Can IT help you get your clothes washed?
posted by Sean Deuby on May 08, 2007 at IT@Intel
I had an unexpectedly great IT experience the other day that should make us proud to call ourselves IT pros. And this time I was on the receiving end....
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tagged: deuby, directoryservice, intel, it
Drivin' That Train, High on Deliverables...
posted by Eleanor Wynn on May 03, 2007 at IT@Intel
…”Casey Jones, you better watch your speed. Trouble ahead, trouble behind, don’t ya know that notion just crossed my mind.”* Hi, is your IT group too deliverables-driven? You heard me. Are you running after too many senseless objectives? Do you...
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tagged: adaptiveness, deliverables, future, gratefuldead, it, research
No place like 127.0.0.1
posted by Tomas Mcinernery on April 17, 2007 at IT@Intel
Hello world. You may have noticed the blogging team tentatively flinging the golden gates open and allowing a few more select people to wave from blogs/it window. Just let me say it’s great to be here. It’s a huge opportunity...Heath Buckmaster. Blogger, Bicentennial Quarter Collector, Manager, Geek.
posted by Heath Buckmaster on April 16, 2007 at IT@Intel
10 April 2007. I was sitting in my office and the call came in. Well, it was an email, but “the call” makes it sound more dramatic. I was experiencing post-lunch lethargy and it was 2:37pm. I had been at...
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tagged: geek, intel, it, management, organizationdevelopment, technology
Employee Productivity and Parkinson’s Law – Part 2
posted by David Sward on March 08, 2007 at IT@Intel
What Parkinson’s Law basically states is that work expands to fill the time allowed to get it done. Give an employee an extra 15 minutes each day and they will fritter it away with other activities; like reading this post. ...
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tagged: business, businessvalue, businessvaluedials, employee, employeeproductivity, it, productivity, timesavings, value
Who needs a CIO?
posted by Jeff Moriarty on February 28, 2007 at IT@Intel
The Long Tail has a great post titled “Who needs a CIO?”* that discusses the changing expectations of a CIO, and whether a “C” title will be needed in this role in the future. Chris talks about CIOs shifting from...
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tagged: amt, cio, it, managers
Check out the Intel IT 2006 Performance Report
posted by Jeff Moriarty on February 03, 2007 at IT@Intel
Every year Intel IT publishes a detailed performance report on the work we’ve done, our challenges and successes, the value we add to Mother Intel, and what we have planned for the next year. It has some fantastic metrics on...
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tagged: email, innovation, it, performance, wireless
Employee Productivity and Parkinson’s Law – Part 1
posted by David Sward on January 26, 2007 at IT@Intel
Employee productivity is a hotly debated subject. Measuring employee productivity is straightforward. Valuing employee productivity is difficult. I’m going to deal with the easy part first and cover the hard one over the next few weeks....
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tagged: business, businessvaluedials, employee, employeeproductivity, it, productivity, value
The purpose of IT?
posted by Marty Menard on January 17, 2007 at IT@Intel
I had dinner the other night with a few of my CIO Staff peers and a senior Intel fellow*. During dinner, the conversation evolved to a a discussion of the purpose of IT. We use the term Teachable Point of...
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tagged: avoidance, cost, information, it, productivity, technology
Quad-Core part II: Native or MCP or..?
posted by Sudip Chahal on December 22, 2006 at IT@Intel
Thanks to the comments to my first blog entry, I am relieved to find that I am not posting to a “chorus of chirping crickets” as my colleague Jeff had wondered in his initial blog. Lately there has been some...
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tagged: it, performance, quadcore, server, value
Developing a Common Language of Business Value
posted by David Sward on November 28, 2006 at IT@Intel
In my previous post, you can measure that, I spent time talking about operational definitions and how using them is critical to objectively measuring business value. Operational definitions lay the foundation for a solid measurement strategy and spell out the...
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tagged: business, businessvalue, businessvaluedials, commonlanguage, it, operationaldefinition, value
Captain Obvious discovers... Intel is a big manufacturing company!
posted by Jeff Moriarty on October 20, 2006 at IT@Intel
Intel is a manufacturing company. That should be obvious, I guess, but it almost always seems to get lost when I talk to people about Intel. Someway, somehow, everything that all of us do at Intel traces back to getting...
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tagged: it, manufacturer, size
Low Calorie Filler
posted by Jeff Moriarty on October 18, 2006 at IT@Intel
I am on the road this week in Folsom, California to commune with the Intel IT Mothership. No matter which site you work at within Intel, if you’re in IT you regularly have to come to Folsom for a Face...
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tagged: buzzwords, it
Part II - Panic and Rapid Organization of a Geek Mind
posted by Jeff Moriarty on October 13, 2006 at IT@Intel
I am just outright stunned by anyone at all finding and reading these blogs. We did no advertising at all that I’m aware of, and we ended up linked from all sorts of places like HardOCP, Scoble, and even The...
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tagged: culture, it, value
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