Lend Lease Leads the Way with New Infrastructure Roll-Out
Lend Lease is blazing trails in its field and is well positioned to respond quickly with a solid IT go-to-market strategy. What’s really impressive is that, for an organization with some 10,000 employees in North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe, it has been able to channel internal IT and project-management resources and, with the support of its suppliers, design and implement a significant application infrastructure in just little more than nine months.
ECP Exclusive: Brian Johnson Discusses the Art of Building Bridges
“It’s all about building bridges. And you’re the one who has to build them,” says Brian Johnson when talking about how to make ITIL® work in an organization. And if anyone knows ITIL, it’s Brian Johnson. He was part of the British government team that developed the standards for ITIL or Information Technology Infrastructure Library.
Market Watch
Using Legal Tactics to Defend Against Software Audits
Setting the Standard for ITIL Best Practices
The Next Generation of BMC’s Integrated Asset-Service Management Product
Best-Practice Group Report
Check out the agendas for the April best-practice group meetings in Los Angeles (April 6), Detroit (April 12), Chicago (April 15) and Philadelphia (April 19). Attend a half-day seminar, Assessment Manager™ Building & Assessing a SAM Program, in Detroit or Philadelphia. $295/$195 for best-practice group members.
Coming Mid-Month
Navigating the Tools Landscape—Part One of a Multi-Part Series Covering Tool Evaluation and Selection
In the market for tools? Will a repository, discovery or request management tool, or a combination of tools, do the job? With some 30 asset management tools—and more than 40 discovery tools on the market, where do you begin to categorize and evaluate the choices, let alone find the right fit for your organization? In this multi-part series on tool evaluation and selection, we follow the project team from InsureCo, a large insurance-services company, as they navigate the ITAM track.
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