Results tagged “value”
Employee Productivity Part 4 - Valuing Time
posted by David Sward on July 26, 2007 at IT@Intel
In my last post, Employee Productivity and Parkinson’s Law – Part 3, we looked at an approach to valuation that separately examines solutions targeting general types of workers: structured-task workers, specific-knowledge workers, and corporate-wide population. This approach is based on...
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tagged: business value, employee productivity, value
Deja 2.0
posted by Jeff Moriarty on July 11, 2007 at IT@Intel
I wonder how many stupid variations I can do on Web 2.0 component names. I may have to devote an entire post to it and see if I can get this out of my system once and for all. Anyhoo,...
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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, business value, business value dials, employee, employee productivity, IT, productivity, time savings, value
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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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, quad core, 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, business value, business value dials, common language, IT, operational definition, value
Bigfoot, UFOs, and Intel Innovation?
posted by Jeff Moriarty on October 30, 2006 at IT@Intel
I’ve had a bit of analysis-paralysis over what to write next here, and in which order to tackle it. I have a large pile of requested items, in addition to my own list of topics, but I’m not sure how...
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tagged: innovation, risk taking, value
Got Business Value?
posted by David Sward on October 23, 2006 at IT@Intel
Got Business Value? I’ve been on vacation for 2 weeks; I mean a real vacation and left my notebook in the office. So now I’m eager to get on with discussing the business value of IT. Over the years I...
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tagged: business, measurement, ROI, value
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
What is a business value program?
posted by David Sward on October 09, 2006 at IT@Intel
Most IT organizations today are viewed as cost centers; a result of this perspective is a sustained focus on total cost of ownership. This is a necessary management approach; however, when used in isolation it does nothing to demonstrate the...
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tagged: business, elements, key, key elements, program, value, value program
Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology
posted by David Sward on October 09, 2006 at IT@Intel
Getting people to measure the business value of information technology is not easy; it is even harder in a high tech company. My name is David Sward and I’ve made measuring the return on investment (ROI) of IT my mission;...
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tagged: business, measurement, value
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