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The News - May 20, 2008
"If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. ” – Sun Tzu
Top Picks
Who Says it’s Easy to Make Billions
Steve Ballmer was egged during a presentation at university in Hungary
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9947314-16.html
Does Efficiency in the Data Center Give Us What We Need?
“While driving efficiency is clearly the right thing to do, industry and government agencies must consider a more holistic view on the cause and effect in the IT industry. It is important to understand what the drivers are to the perceived problem of IT power consumption.”
http://www.missioncriticalmagazine.com/CDA/Articles/Features/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000340120 [This is a very interesting article.]
IT Audit / Internal Audit / Compliance
The Real Price of Payoffs, According to E&Y
“Even though more companies are being caught using bribery to gain business, the illicit practice appears to be increasing — as is the cost of being caught.”
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/11398463?f=alerts
IT Process Improvement / Quality Management
Using ITAM to Save Money in Tough Times
“With the current economic downturn in progress, IT organizations are under tremendous pressure to reduce costs yet still increase the value of the services they are delivering. IT asset management (ITAM) is a way of doing this.”
http://www.itsmwatch.com/itil/article.php/3744536
Don’t Forget Organizational Change
“The reason for this is need is because when we talk about changing existing processes or adopting new processes, we are actually talking about making changes that will impact the lives of employees and the culture of the organization. When implemented, these process changes will range from minor to major and how employees perceive the costs, benefits, and risks to themselves will impact the initiative’s ultimate level of success or failure.”
http://blog.itsmwatch.com/gspafford.html
(This blog post has links to a few articles on organizational change)
ADKAR Organizational Change Management Tutorial
“ADKAR is a goal-oriented change management model that allows change management teams to focus their activities on specific business results. The model was initially used as a tool for determining if change management activities like communications and training were having the desired results during organizational change. The model has its origins in aligning traditional change management activities to a given result or goal.”
http://www.change-management.com/tutorial-adkar-overview.htm
(Thank you for sending this Paul!)
Security and Risk Management
New attack trend pushes POS encryption to the fore
“The relatively scant attention that retailers have paid to securing their point-of-sale systems over the past few years is making the POS setups increasingly attractive targets for cybercrooks who are looking to steal payment card data.”
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9086898&source=rss_news50
Security Manager's Journal: Security measures have to be reasonable
“If you're an information security manager, you have to apply security smarts to your information security model — sensible security that's in line with your organization's business, applicable legislation and available resources.”
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=317285&source=rss_news50
Healthcare / Bio-Informatics / Care Delivery Organizations (CDOs)
Contemplating RHIOs: What Health Systems Need to Know
“The number of regional health information organizations (RHIOs) created in the United States has been increasing annually. Many hospitals and health systems engage in RHIOs to improve patient care quality and safety. But deciding to collaborate in such an organization can be a difficult decision for any health system.”
http://health-care-it.advanceweb.com/editorial/content/editorial.aspx?CC=72135
Google Gets Into Health
“The search king announced Monday that consumers can now upload their medical records to Google Health, its closely-watched health information site.”
http://www.forbes.com/ebusiness/2008/05/19/google-online-health-tech-ebiz_cx_wt_0519google.html?feed=rss_technology_ebusiness
Human Error / Safety / Environment
The Symantec 2007 State of the Data Center Report
Respondents identified human error as the number one cause of downtime.
http://www.symantec.com/about/news/resources/press_kits/detail.jsp?pkid=sdcreport
[It was released in October of 2007 and I just ran across it.]
Show me the Green
“Companies are trumpeting their environmental achievements — even if the motivation is to sell ‘green’ products rather than be green themselves.”
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/11080084?f=alerts
Superefficient Frankencrops Could Put a Real Dent in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
“What some greens deride as Frankencrops are also the only serious hope for biofuels. Right now, their net carbon benefit is negligible. Corn engineered for high yields and low fertilizer will help, but even better will be plants under development whose stalks and leaves can easily be turned into fuel.”
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_06genetic
Globalization / International
China Faces Economic Aftershocks
“As the initial chaos of the disaster zones is being replaced by an eerily orderly rescue and cleanup effort by the military, China's leaders are turning their attention to the survivors and the economic consequences of fear.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR2008051802372.html?nav=rss_world/asia
Economics / Business / Misc.
Who's to blame for $4 gas
“Prices have surged over the past four years - and there's a bunch of reasons why.”
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/20/news/economy/gas_price_history/index.htm?cnn=yes
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