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■ NEWS & ANALYSIS
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AS we enter a period of tightened belts and likely budget
cuts, organisations are looking at various ways to drive
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has launched a free guide to using company intranets to
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save money. The full research report is available for
download from
www.ibforum.com and has examples of
US$173
best-practice case studies and screenshots. Below, we
publish the 12 top-line tips.
Estimated materials and manufacturing
cost of the new Apple iPhone, according
to a ‘virtual teardown’ by analysts iSuppli
1 Build bridges with internal customers
2 Research user needs
87pc
3 Implement or expand self-service
4 Target further design, print and distribution savings
Organisations currently using virtualisa-
tion, either at the server, application,
5 Improve usability desktop or storage level (source: Citrix)
6 Revamp HR content
7 Create content for customer-facing staff
847
8 Create internal helpdesk content
9 Enhance the employee directory
Unsecured wireless access points
10 Put senior leaders online
discovered in a survey of Dublin
industrial areas (source: Epsion)
11 Leverage online meetings
12 Measure savings.
21pc
Business process management
Satisfaction with the way companies are
missing a trick?
using Web 2.0 tools (source: McKinsey)
were delivered by an off-the-shelf
By Gordon Smith
packaged application, and 63pc said
¤944m
this was done by a custom software
development project, rather than
Investment in the Irish data centre sector
A NEW survey of European busi- using specific business process man- in the past year (source: BroadGroup)
nesses has found the majority of agement (BPM) tools.
business process improvement ini- “This survey should provide a
tiatives are still relatively immature. wake-up call to anyone tempted by
0
According to research conducted by the current industry hype of how
analyst firm Macehiter Ward- BPM and service-oriented architec-
Watts used in power-saving mode of
Dutton, (MWD) most such projects ture slot together seamlessly,” said
Fujitsu Siemens’ Scenicview Premium
concentrated on early process dis- Neil Ward-Dutton, lead analyst on
monitor – said to be the world’s first
covery and process modelling, not MWD’s BPM research programme.
of its kind
continuous process improvement. “Our study shows that although
Moreover, some 91pc surveyed there are clear conceptual links
said they tend to use diagramming between these two ideas, it’s impor-
15pc
tools for modelling processes, tant for anyone in enterprise IT to
instead of specialised management be careful in how and when they try Number of European and US businesses
environments built for purpose. In and make the connection – particu-
that will have formalised societal
73pc of cases, process improvements larly in the minds of business teams.”
trend watching as a corporate
discipline by 2010 (source: Gartner)
4 Knowledge Ireland September 2008
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