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TAC Talk Episode 3: Reducing  Baseline Costs through Better Demand Management

TAC Talk Episode 3: Reducing Baseline Costs through Better Demand Management

July 25, 2015
peters@tacadvisory.com
Advisory, Budget, Business-IT Alignment, EaaS, IT Transformation, Productivity, TAC Talk (Podcast), Time Management

Recorded July 24, 2015 A conversation about Demand Management between TAC president Peter Schay and TAC expert Patrick Savard, who consults with Fortune 500 businesses…

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TAC Talk Episode 1: Why Cloud business planning is more difficult than you think – and what to do about it.

TAC Talk Episode 1: Why Cloud business planning is more difficult than you think – and what to do about it.

July 10, 2015
tacadvisory
Business Planning, Business-IT Alignment, Cloud, TAC Talk (Podcast)

A conversation with TAC President Peter Schay and guest Bruce Guptil, TAC expert and skilled speaker, media contributor, and author of hundreds of research notes, reports, blog posts, articles, and presentations on business IT change, strategy, tactics, planning, acquisition, and value, from cloud, mobile and social IT, to digital business transformation, to changing IT roles and value.

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The Anthem Hack: Sophisticated? Maybe, Maybe Not.

The Anthem Hack: Sophisticated? Maybe, Maybe Not.

February 5, 2015
tacadvisory
Business-IT Alignment, Cyber Security, TAC blog

How could Home Depot and Neiman Marcus fall into the same trap that Target did months earlier? Could it be that this is not considered material enough to spend money on both the technology (to prevent & detect data losses) and the human behavioral changes needed to minimize incidents?

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Why You Should Rethink Making That New Software Purchase

Why You Should Rethink Making That New Software Purchase

October 28, 2014
Michael D. Greene
Advisory, Budget, Business-IT Alignment, EaaS, IT Transformation

Investing in new software to resolve an issue within businesses is a common but often misguided solution, since many times the required functionality already exists within the business’s software portfolio or is available at some level for free on the Internet.

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So You Want To Innovate? Embrace The Risk!

So You Want To Innovate? Embrace The Risk!

October 11, 2013
Michael D. Greene
Advisory, Business-IT Alignment, EaaS, IT Transformation

As with ideas, the same factors: need, broad knowledge base, environment, and timing all come into play. We can, In fact, start with the notion that an idea becomes an innovation when it fundamentally changes the way we do things. The more change a new idea makes, the more innovative it is.

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Business After the Fiscal Cliff

Business After the Fiscal Cliff

December 26, 2012
Michael D. Greene
Budget, Business-IT Alignment, IT Transformation, Productivity

While the Federal Government seems to want to act out the final scene from “Thelma and Louise” with our economy, we can’t wait for someone to hit the brakes. Regardless of what the government does (or does not do) in the next few days to avert the fiscal cliff, we do know that taxes will go up on those making at least $400,000, including small businesses.

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Daddy (or Mommy), Where Do Ideas Come From?

Daddy (or Mommy), Where Do Ideas Come From?

October 12, 2012
Michael D. Greene
Business-IT Alignment, IT Transformation, Productivity

Ideas are the result of the exposure to a certain piece or pieces of key information in an environment conducive to solving a perceived or subliminal problem at a critical moment in the thought process. In other words, ideas happen in much the same way babies “happen”; it’s a matter of being in the right place at the right time doing the right things to produce them.

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Why I Would Short Facebook

Why I Would Short Facebook

August 14, 2012
tacadvisory
Business-IT Alignment, Facebook, Productivity

Social media sites have flourished and withered on a regular basis (witness Myspace, for which News Corporation paid $580 million in 2005, and then sold in 2011 for $35 million). The younger crowd gets bored easily and have a herd mentality. They will follow the crowd to the next hot thing. You can already see this by the Facebook demographics. The average age of members is getting older by the day. The advertisers see this as well, and it’s only a matter of time before they move on as well.

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EaaS 101: The Fundamentals of Expertise-as-a-Service

EaaS 101: The Fundamentals of Expertise-as-a-Service

July 30, 2012
Michael D. Greene
Budget, Business-IT Alignment, EaaS, IT Transformation

EaaS is an extension of the SaaS philosophy, allowing the procurement of information, expertise, performance management and measurement and other necessary IT services the same way. This way of thinking is not new to the enterprise; legal and finance departments have leveraged outside counsel and accounting firms for decades.

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Overcoming the Inertia of Complacency

Overcoming the Inertia of Complacency

July 2, 2012
Michael D. Greene
Business-IT Alignment, IT Transformation

CIOs and senior managers all understand that change is a part of corporate life.but a number of these same people have become complacent, insisting on doing things the same way they have always done them, because it is comfortable and “it has always worked before”.

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