Five prerequisites for successful IT projects

According to some estimates, 68 percent of IT projects fail. That’s a sobering statistic, but there are ways to stack the deck in favor of IT project success. This episode of Sanity Savers shares five strategies to help you overcome some of the common problems that plague many IT projects.

Protect company assets during employee departures

Employment transition is an often overlooked danger to company security. Whether it’s massive layoffs or routine separations, IT should have standard security policies in place that detail the steps to take when an employee leaves the company. In this IT Dojo video, I’ll go over four critical areas of employment transition security, including:

* User accounts
* Documentation
* Inventory
* Personal electronics

How CIOs Should Spend Their Day

Overview: With the exception of possibly the CEO, the CIO's business calendar is the most difficult to manage. The key? CIOs should balance time management in ways that do not deprive any key constituents of essential time. Each stakeholder group is equally important, and a disproportionate allocation of the CIO's focus and attention will be detrimental to the enterprise and to the CIO's success. Forrester's 30-30-30-10 model forces disciplined balance across constituents, which are classified into four groups: above, across, below, and yourself. This time model will keep IT front-of-mind in the business and allow CIOs to do what they do best: proving and delivering IT value to the enterprise.