What IT Pros Can Learn from Librarians

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Aligning IT and Business Goals September 07, 2011 What IT Professionals Can Learn from Librarians On the face of it, IT professionals and librarians don't seem to have much in common, other than perhaps a love of arcane knowledge. Yet both IT pros and librarians work with information assets and place a high value on delivering superior service. Some IT pros, however, tend to focus on underlying technologies rather than how those technologies are used by business folks. They could learn from how librarians communicate with their customers. Read more > Featured White Papers New eBook: Shifting the Focus to Strategic IT Projects This eBook examines why and how CIOs should and can establish themselves as agents of strategic change within their enterprises. •  Maximizing Help Desk Productivity: Try These Top Five Tips •  M2M Technology — When Machines Talk, Efficiencies Soar •  The Business Case for Analytic Platforms Premium Tools Cloud Computing Foundation Certification Kit Cloud computing is a topic you need to be well versed at iif you want your IT management career to advance. This downloadable resource will step you through the services available, deployment models and security risks associated with Cloud Computing. Use this 185 page eBook and access to a unique eLearning experience to grow your career. •  The Complete IT Policy Kit •  The Strategic IT Planning Bundle •  The ITIL V3 Foundation Certification Kit IT Marketplace Latest White Papers Security & the Cloud: Augment or Abdicate? Simplifying Enterprise Modernization: Easier Than You Think New Approaches to Optimized Data Center Power Distribution Is Your Talent Management Strategy Creating Value? Application Clusters — High Availability Discover how to provide high levels of system availability and scalability, ensuring continuous data access and system flexibility. Download now > "In the short term, there will be a lot of marketing of vendor turf in the cloud. But longer-term open cloud ecosystems will create the volume of applications that cloud service providers are going to need in order to first survive and then thrive ..." Excerpt from Mike Vizard IT Unmasked Does Big Data Require a Leap of Faith? Big Data requires a different attitude toward data. It's less about mining, and more about exploration, which means answering the question "What can Big Data do for me" won't be as straightforward as you might prefer. Enterprise App Store Can Provide User Choice, IT Control Business users want more choice and added flexibility in the applications they use. IT organizations may want to provide these things, but still need to ensure app integrity and scalability. Enterprise app stores can bridge the gap between what users want and what IT orgs need, says Partnerpedia's Sam Liu. Master Project Management Checklist Template This Master Project Management Checklist Template, provided by project management specialist Michael Taylor, helps you maneuver your way through an entire project, from start to finish. Blogs Mike Vizard IT Unmasked The Coming of Cloud Ecosystems Rob Enderle Unfiltered Opinion EMC and VMware: The Anatomy of a Successful Acquisition Loraine Lawson Integration Big Data for the Average Org Get SOA Lifecycle Governance Right   Achieve unlimited agility and organizational flexibility with these strategies and practices for governing SOA. Download now > This e-mail is sent by: NarrowCast Group, LLC, 10400 Linn Station Road, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40223 Copyright ©2003-2011 NarrowCast Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  CTO Edge Update •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise