The evolution of the IT performance evaluation

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	The evolution of the IT performance evaluation No more counting lines of code: Managers look for new ways to assess IT employee performance. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Demonstrate the Business Value of Security Justifying the cost of a security can be difficult, no matter how valuable protection may be. In this whitepaper, Forrester Research demonstrates how to calculate the value InfoSec provides. You'll learn how to justify and defend tough financial decisions in terms the business understands. Learn More In this Issue Buried in software licensing Eric Berridge: Reinventing the CIO as Chief Interaction Officer INSIDER How Delphi's CIO Drives Innovation, Change and Revenue With IT JohnWThompson: Casting an IT blockbuster WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Enable Faster Backup and More Effective Long-Term Archiving EMC Data Domain Systems respond to the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective archiving. The systems support long-term backup retention and provide a foundation for supporting new archiving workloads. Learn more. Buried in software licensing IT leaders are fed up with the perpetual-license-plus-maintenance approach to enterprise software purchases, and they're tired of running on the upgrade treadmill simply for the sake of keeping their software maintenance status current. Here's a look at how they're breaking free. Read More Eric Berridge: Reinventing the CIO as Chief Interaction Officer CIOs' ability to connect company and customer may make the position more strategic than ever today. Yet, the lingering title -- Chief Information Officer -- is hopelessly married to a 20th Century job description. The "I" should stand for interacation, not information. Read More WEBCAST: ServiceNow Software Asset Management During our Software Asset Management webinar you will learn how having asset, configuration and other service management processes together in one system of record provides the control and visibility you need to overcome these challenges. View Now! INSIDER How Delphi's CIO Drives Innovation, Change and Revenue With IT Delphi CIO Tim McCabe discusses how he navigated the auto-parts maker through times of major financial struggle and how, as a result, IT has become a driver of revenue. McCabe also explores why CIOs and IT leaders need to be more knowledgeable about their businesses and what the future of offshoring and out-tasking looks like. Read More JohnWThompson: Casting an IT blockbuster The key components of IT today are similar to the makings of a good movie. IT is dynamic and has many layers. All of these layers, or domains, need to work together seamlessly to deliver a good experience to the end-user. The same holds true for a good movie -- it needs to have a solid plot, a strong director to bring the plot to life, a compelling cast to give the characters depth, and a certain level of excitement to draw the viewer in and hold their attention. So, how does this movie analogy play out in IT? Read More
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