Ten IT Talking Points Your CFO Will Love

Ten IT Talking Points Your CFO Will Love
Do you know how to talk to your CFO in terms that he or she understands? Here are ten talking points for the year ahead.

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Table of Contents

• Ten IT Talking Points Your CFO Will Love
• Designed for Growth
• Opinion: E-mail overload (or status emailicus)
• Strategic thinking
• IT pros go mobile for holiday work
• IBM to buy business process management vendor
• Dell launches dedicated services organization
• Samsung Electronics names new CEO in major reorganization

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Designed for Growth
Rapid growth and the need to scale its operations to serve a global customer base led Rolls-Royce to transform how it engineers, manufactures and delivers power systems to civil and defense aerospace, marine and energy industry customers.

Opinion: E-mail overload (or status emailicus)
When e-mail gets in the way of our ability to get things done, it’s time to change the way we handle it, says John Halamka.

Strategic thinking
A Formula One racing car and heart surgery are not usually mentioned in the same breath to describe an ICT project.

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IT pros go mobile for holiday work
Roughly 42% of IT pros plan to work through the holidays, a significant drop from 84% in 2006. But more than three-quarters will be reachable via mobile and other technologies, Intermedia reports.

IBM to buy business process management vendor
IBM said it has signed a deal to buy Lombardi, an Austin, Texas, BPM (business process management) vendor. Terms were not disclosed.

Dell launches dedicated services organization
Dell has launched a dedicated services organization, appropriately named Dell Services, that will focus on midmarket enterprise customers. The company formed the unit by integrating Perot Systems, purchased Nov. 3 for US$3.9 billion, with the enterprise services operation from its own Large Enterprise business unit.

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Samsung Electronics names new CEO in major reorganization
Samsung Electronics named a new CEO on Tuesday as the company undertakes a major reorganization intended to improve its competitiveness.

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