An Introduction to It Project Financials - Budgeting, Cost Management and Chargebacks.
An Introduction to It Project Financials - Budgeting, Cost Management and Chargebacks.

Author: Michael Gentle

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-06-23

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1445764059

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SHOW ME THE MONEY! You can assemble the best project teams and meet all of your milestones and deliverables, but at the end of the day, your projects live or die by their financials. And that means getting a handle on everything from investment planning and budgeting to cost management and chargebacks. The good news is that you don't have to a bean-counter to understand this, for only 20% of IT project financials is accounting - the rest is all process. In a clear and engaging style, Michael Gentle lifts the veil off things like portfolio management, capex and opex, depreciation, cost management and forecasting. You'll then understand why time entry is not going away anytime soon (sorry, folks!), and why chargebacks are so hard to implement. Michael Gentle has over 25 years of experience in IT departments and software vendors in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. He is also the author of IT Success! and The CRM Project Management Handbook.

Introduction to Risk Parity and Budgeting
Introduction to Risk Parity and Budgeting

Author: Thierry Roncalli

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1482207168

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Although portfolio management didn't change much during the 40 years after the seminal works of Markowitz and Sharpe, the development of risk budgeting techniques marked an important milestone in the deepening of the relationship between risk and asset management. Risk parity then became a popular financial model of investment after the global fina

IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT Portfolio Overview
IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT Portfolio Overview

Author: Bart Jacob

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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This IBM Redbooks publication provides an overview of the IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT portfolio. The portfolio is made up of the three primary products, IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT, IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager for z/OS, and IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager. By using these products together, you can implement a comprehensive IT asset management solution. This book provides a functional overview of each of the products in the portfolio and also provides example scenarios of how they can be used to address IT asset management disciplines. The IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT product is a relatively new acquisition. It has its roots in enterprise asset management and has very rich function. This product will be enhanced and adapted to provide functions specific to IT asset management, such as facilities to handle contract management, full asset life-cycle management, integration with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions and much more. This book introduces the portfolio and describes its current capabilities. Our intention for the future is to provide additional materials for a deeper understanding of best practices for using the portfolio to implement a complete IT asset management solution.

Practical Project Management
Practical Project Management

Author: Harvey A. Levine

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2002-10-15

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0471256382

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Ein Praxisleitfaden für frisch gebackene und erfahrene Manager gleichermaßen. Er vermittelt die praktischen Grundlagen des Projektmanagement. Mit einer Fülle von Checklisten, Tools, Taktiken und Hinweisen zu Fehlerquellen. Die Kapitel bilden in sich geschlossene Einheiten - ideal für schnelles Nachschlagen oder die Suche nach Problemlösungen, so dass bei gezielten Fragen nicht das gesamte Buch durchgearbeitet werden muss. Das im Buch enthaltene Material ist einmalig: Es basiert auf Beispielen aus der täglichen Praxis und bietet praxiserprobte Methoden und Lösungen aus dem reichen Erfahrungsschatz des Autors. Harvey Levine kann auf fast 40 Jahre Erfahrung im Projektmanagement zurückblicken. Er ist ein angesehenes Mitglied der Projektmanagement Community, schreibt für zahlreiche Fachpublikationen und ist als Consultant tätig.

Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices
Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices

Author: Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA)

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-07-03

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1118429028

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Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices provides financial manages with no-nonsense, balanced, and practical strategies that are being targeted and used nationwide for controlling costs by thousands of companies in areas such as human resources, compensation, benefits, purchasing, outsourcing, use of consultants, taxes, and exports. These best practices are based on the trenches experience, research, proprietary databases, and consultants from the Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) and other leading experts in their fields. * Provides best practices and techniques for controlling costs within a company * New chapters focus on outsourcing costs, downsizing, consultants' costs, and business tax costs * Provides the latest strategies companies re using to control costs

IT Service Management Best Practices Using IBM SmartCloud Control Desk
IT Service Management Best Practices Using IBM SmartCloud Control Desk

Author: Axel Buecker

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 802

ISBN-13: 0738438677

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SmartCloud Control Desk is a comprehensive IT Asset and Service Management solution that helps reduce cost and minimize service disruptions. It does so through automated service request handling, efficient change management, and optimized asset lifecycle management across IT and enterprise domains. SmartCloud Control Desk helps to reduce total cost of ownership by using one unified solution to license, install, and manage multiple ITIL processes under one price point. It can also help reduce business risk by using advanced impact analysis and defining automated change procedures that ensure integrity of existing infrastructure while supporting business agility. SmartCloud Control Desk improves efficiency and quality of service by unifying asset, change, and problem management. It lowers cost and mitigates license compliance risk by performing end to end software asset management. It also delivers an adaptive, role-based simplified UI that can be more intuitive for novice users, which reduces training costs, while allowing access from anywhere at anytime through mobile device support that includes BlackBerry, iOS, and Android. In addition, SmartCloud Control Desk supports both a profit center business model for internal IT organizations, and an external Service Provider model. It allows organizations to manage customers and customer agreements and bills for managed assets, usage, and work activities while improving utilization rates and reducing unnecessary purchases by managing the IT asset lifecycle. You can deploy SmartCloud Control Desk in a variety of ways; traditional on-premise, SaaS, VM image. This approach can make it more affordable to meet your current business needs, and seamlessly move between delivery models while keeping the same functionality. This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers IBM SmartCloud® Control Desk product configuration, customization, and implementation best practices.

Foundations of Security
Foundations of Security

Author: Christoph Kern

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2007-05-11

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1430203773

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Software developers need to worry about security as never before. They need clear guidance on safe coding practices, and that’s exactly what this book delivers. The book does not delve deep into theory, or rant about the politics of security. Instead, it clearly and simply lays out the most common threats that programmers need to defend against. It then shows programmers how to make their defense. The book takes a broad focus, ranging over SQL injection, worms and buffer overflows, password security, and more. It sets programmers on the path towards successfully defending against the entire gamut of security threats that they might face.

Organizational Change
Organizational Change

Author: Tupper F. Cawsey

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2015-04-17

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 1483388441

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Awaken, mobilize, accelerate, and institutionalize change. With a rapidly changing environment, aggressive competition, and ever-increasing customer demands, organizations must understand how to effectively adapt to challenges and find opportunities to successfully implement change. Bridging current theory with practical applications, Organizational Change: An Action-Oriented Toolkit, Third Edition combines conceptual models with concrete examples and useful exercises to dramatically improve the knowledge, skills, and abilities of students in creating effective change. Students will learn to identify needs, communicate a powerful vision, and engage others in the process. This unique toolkit by Tupper Cawsey, Gene Deszca, and Cynthia Ingols will provide readers with practical insights and tools to implement, measure, and monitor sustainable change initiatives to guide organizations to desired outcomes.

E-business 2.0
E-business 2.0

Author: Ravi Kalakota

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 4

ISBN-13: 9780201721652

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This title seeks to explain how to choose and implement the right e-business infrastructure and how to deliver the strategies you have created. It uses case studies to illustrate the successes and failures of e-business initiatives.