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IT projects can help you achieve your goal to return to stability or even growth carefully.
Maybe your company is different, but most companies I deal with do not start getting serious about their IT budgets for next year until after Labor Day. While the 2009 budget is thrown out the window by many IT executives as the economy turned downward, in 2010 looked more promising. So if you are one of the executives seek return to stability and maybe even some growth carefully, what the 10 IT projects that can help you reach your destination? This is a project of growth and standbys are not constant security, storage and hardware maintenance and upgrades. Standbys old man must be fed, but they will not fuel growth soared.
1. Mobility. It's time to think about developing applications with mobile devices as main clients. Your top executives and sales force you to use their phones as their primary way of keeping in touch with the company. Your customers are more likely to respond to offers made through mobile messages. Rather than thinking of ways to mobilize enterprise applications are older, think about mobility as the beginning of the project. And by the way, if you have an application developer with a track record of mobile? I recently named Mobile as one of five developing enterprise applications you need now.
2. Social network. This is one you'll hear a lot about. What you will not hear much about is how to build reporting tools necessary for successful social networking programs. Instead of sending all the people from Twittering and run a Facebook page, start with what you want to accomplish first. Do not hesitate to click into my article on how to build a successful business applications of social networking. Remember, if you can not measure it, you do not know if it is successful or not.
3. Enlarge your company's product development team. Remember the motto, "The customer is always right"? Technology companies like Dell has brought success to its customer base in the process of product development. Did you make it easy for customers to recommend new products and improving existing products and services? You should.
4. Get with the cloud and virtualization. One of the problems with the way technology companies have marketed cloud computing and virtualization is a field that most of the cost of cutting. However, cloud computing is also offer a way for companies to quickly provision of technology infrastructure startups in their own company. A recent article by Fortune magazine profile of the browser pioneer Mark Andreessen explained why startups will breed in the era of cloud computing. Does your company have a plan in place quickly to support the internal startups with technology or whether the startup team sat collecting dust as they wait for a database, server and trade in services that will be used?
5. Thinking outside the box your technology. Yes, easier to manage your technology resources when everyone uses the same laptop, same operating system, the same database, etc. But if your company will take advantage of new business intelligence tools hosted in the cloud or new applications from companies such as Salesforce.com or e-commerce tools from companies like Amazon, you should start small. You must find and fund technology pioneer in your company or you will get stuck in habits the same technology as last year.
6. Be a leader. How did you develop the talent of new technologies in your company? While your travel budget may have been destroyed by economic recession, you have many opportunities in a virtual trade show, e-seminars and smaller local events. Do you track your employees' e-seminar? Do you have a way to evaluate the e-SEM and virtual trade show offers the best value? Do you recognize employees who have been out of their way to learn new technologies and bring them to your company's talent pool? You should. Here is a calendar of seminars offered by e-my company, Ziff Davis Enterprise.
7. Thinking outside the box your company's business. How much time do you spend to see how competitors to your company uses technology? Does their web interface? How easy or difficult it was to order the product from a competitor? Sign up for their newsletters, mobile alerts and e-seminars where they may be the presenter. Now, take some time to get away from your industry and see how technology is used by startups. Do they utilize Geolocation services? What are their offerings such as on mobile devices like the iPhone App Store? It's not just web-surfing is called a competitive analysis, and if you structured about it, you can find some good ideas for your company.
8. Understanding new online service contractor. Web companies like ELance are changing the way hired contractors. If there is upside to the strained economy, it is there are many good contractors was suddenly available. You really need to understand how the new service is Web-based contractors to work if you will know how to get resources for application programming and developing your new projects.
9. Rethink your company's IT infrastructure. I know this article is approximately 10 projects for new services, but if you're like most companies, most of your IT budget is still entered into the lights and keep the server running. Reducing these costs is where you release a new construction dollars. New part is that you have a wider range of hosted services to see even compared to previous years.
10. Be structured about seeing a new victim of the old vendor. Soon you will be asked about Windows 7 and offers a host of new applications from Oracle, Cisco's new video services and new business applications from Google. The large vendors have not slept, but has been waiting for some economic sunshine before making a marketing push their products. How many of the big platform switch you can make in a year? How stiff is the ROI that you can attach to this offer? Executives from these companies play golf with your boss, and you must have a reason why or why not you're ready to take major projects that will consume most of the new dollar project and human resources.
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