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Welcome to George Spafford's Research Site!
Hello there! I am a Principal Consultant with Pepperweed Consulting. Pepperweed specializes in implementing proven solutions in organizations by providing expert knowledge and organizational change skills. We have solutions in the areas of IT strategy, IT Asset Management, IT Security, Green IT, Project and Portfolio Management, and IT Service Management.
We help organizations maximize the value of their IT investment. For more information, please contact me at george.spafford@pepperweed.com.
The News Email List
Be sure to join The News email list published as time permits that provides global news coverage of stories about process improvement, regulatory compliance, security, errors, human factors, outsourcing and technology business. In case you are wondering about the name, it did begin as a daily newsletter but has slowed up as my schedule has filled up!
News
11/19/2008
Forthcoming Book: The Governance of Green IT
To be Published on December 11, 2008
“The economy and environment have combined to create quite a challenge. On one hand, there is a push to reduce capital investment and operating expenses. On the other, organizations are implementing green strategies to reduce the environmental impacts. Within this context, information technology is struggling to provide services that support the organization. To sustain support, IT must implement processes to ensure proper value creation and protection of organizational goals. To this end, this book sets forth a Green IT process that will enable value creation and protection in the areas of data center power and cooling.”
US Order Page: http://www.itgovernanceusa.com/product/1827.aspx
International Order Page: http://www.itgovernance.co.uk/products/2106
8/16/2008
- Pepperweed has made their process guides freely downloadable to the public.
The Pepperweed Process Model is a process is best practice “jumpstart” kit for over 20 core IT processes is being released into the public domain. These core processes represent the foundation intellectual property that we use when engineering customized processes. The intent of this move is to provide this documentation, which doesn’t exist for free today, to the market and collect feedback to strengthen and continue to evolve the processes, much in the same way that open source software does.
http://www.pepperweed.com/consulting-services/pepperweed-process-model.html
- A Green IT Resources page has been added.
http://www.spaffordconsulting.com/GreenITResources.html
- Both Green IT webinars are online now.
Access the archived webcast or the source PPT files at on the webinars page.
07/14/2008
Check Out Amazon’s Kindle
This is an amazing reading device that you can load your PDFs on and it is connected to Amazon using an included wireless 3G phone connection. The feedback I am getting is very positive and plan on buying one shortly. Even if you aren’t thinking of buying one, go to the webpage, read the features and look at the marketing. It’s very impressive.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/?tag=georgespaffor-20
07/09/2008
The webcast "Governing IT in a Green World" was recorded today and the recording URL, PowerPoint file, and a US State Energy Cost variance analysis spreadsheet are now available on the webinar page.
06/06/2008
Click here for a link to Goldratt books at Amazon. People often do not realize how prolific Goldratt has been and the contributions of others to the Theory of Constraints and the Thinking Processes.
The menus are being updated as well. Note the old article pages such as "IT" and "Business" are no longer linked to. Instead additional organization is being added for webcasts, etc.
06/03/2008
The site is in the process of being refreshed with links to the latest articles, etc.
George is regularly contributing to the ITSMWatch blog. Other contributors include Sharon Taylor, the chief architect of ITIL v3, and Valerie Arraj. Check it out at:
http://blog.itsmwatch.com
07/06/2007
George's LinkedIn profile is at: 
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gspafford
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