Let’s say that your company provides innovative medicines or medical devices to patients. Maybe you work for a biotech, a medical device company, or big pharma. You know you could be making better use of information technology to engage patients. But, where should you start? What should you consider? Start...
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Your Company Is Leaking: Tackling IT Portfolio Management Challenges
Companies leak value. They leak value all the time. They leak a lot of value. Regardless of whether they are public or private, their valuation is reduced because they leak value. For life science companies, the situation is even worse. Life science companies are in the business of discovering, developing...
Redefining the ‘IT Project’ — Layering Business Improvement with Information Technology
How do large enterprises still fail to make the right IT investment choices? Why do line executives still feel disconnected from the priorities of the IT function? Why do CIOs and senior IT executives still struggle to explain their priorities in a way that is understood by the rest...
10 tips for helming IT through ups and downs
Impending mergers, ultrafast growth and sharp dips all put pressure on IT leaders to make quick decisions about tech plans. Here’s how to make IT shine in times of change. Most organizations experience growth in fits and starts, with alternating periods of expansion and contraction. IT used to have to...
State of the Art IT Portfolio Management…Isn’t Good Enough Anymore
Our previous article, Order from Chaos, The Building Blocks of Value Driven IT Portfolio Management, highlighted the pervasive problem of large enterprises having more proposed IT project investments than can be funded or staffed simultaneously. Launching too many simultaneous projects results in slow progress, project overlaps and conflicts, and ultimately...
Does device-centric monitoring exceed policy-based alternatives?
by Michael O’Dwyer | December 13, 2016 Several factors drive investigation into device-centric monitoring, but chief among them is a desire to secure company data and prevent network breaches. This is especially important when employees use their own devices as part of a BYOD program. The introduction of a BYOD...
Order from Chaos: The Building Blocks of Value Driven IT Portfolio Management
Most executives are familiar with the situation of having more proposed IT project investments than can be funded or staffed in a given budget cycle. Attempting to execute too many simultaneous projects spreads people and funding much too thinly across the initiatives, resulting in slow progress, project overlap, conflict, and...
Does the healthcare industry face the greatest mobile security risk?
Eighty-two percent of hospitals say they aren’t ready for a mobile cyber attack. Between streamlining workflows and having access to sensitive patient data, does the healthcare industry face the greatest mobile security risk? TayganPoint Consulting Group’s Chas Hartwig explains the risks and how IT professionals in the healthcare industry can...