The IT Leadership Playbook
Regardless of what’s on your business card, you’re the coach of your IT team. Your team is looking to you for a game plan and your organization’s leadership is looking for results.
Just like a sports team, your IT team has generalists and specialists, rookies and veterans. How do you meet the needs of all of these players? How do you help them achieve their goals?
It’s up to you to field an effective team every day and anticipate the future needs of your organization… all while IT unemployment is at an all-time low.
Welcome to the IT leadership playbook. Finally, you’ve got a resource to help you achieve a winning record.
The IT Training Buyer’s Guide & Checklist
The shift to digital learning for IT professionals has been underway for years, and it has only accelerated as IT teams have adapted to working from home during the forced Coronavirus lockdown. As the demand for online and distance learning options has grown, the IT training landscape has expanded. Luckily for business owners and tech leaders, there was already a robust marketplace for IT training options to fit the needs of remote teams.
Digital learning platforms provide a number of advantages for businesses looking to keep their staff trained and certified, but it’s important to choose a program that is right for your team’s needs. With a range of price, quality, and curricula, leaders should carefully consider a number of factors when selecting an IT training partner.
As your teams continue to adapt to new challenges for work and learning, use this guide to determine how to best support your teams with online IT training and certification.In this Guide, you will learn
- Why Online Training is a Fit for IT Teams
- The Features Your Teams Want
- Tools for Leaders and Managers
- How to Choose the Vendor for You
- Get Your Selection Checklist
Best Practices for Increasing Sales Commission Transparency
Learn how Optus, the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, streamlined their sales commissions process and dramatically improved transparency for sales reps, managers and executives alike. Today they leverage Performio to manage commissions for 2500 sales reps, representing 40% of their employee base, across 12 business units.
Register for the webinar and discover how they overcame these sales compensation challenges:
- Outgrown their legacy in-house solution
- Inefficient and manual Excel-based process
- Highly complex plans that change frequently
- Auditing and compliance
- Source system data issues
In addition, you will get best practice advice on selecting and implementing an Incentive Compensation Management solution. Register for the March 25th webinar today!
Take control of your open source supply chain with Tidelift catalogs
The phrase “software supply chain” is making unlikely front-page headlines thanks to the breach impacting SolarWinds and its customers around the world. Meanwhile, open source continues to become a larger and larger part of application development, with our research showing that 92% of applications contain open source components.
So for organizations now seeing software supply chain health as a key imperative, tackling open source software supply chain health is more critical than ever.
During this short, 30-minute webinar our product team demonstrates how you can use the Tidelift Subscription as the heart of an effective open source supply chain management strategy.
In this webinar:
- We'll show you how to design a comprehensive strategy for managing open source usage across the organization.
- We’ll demonstrate Tidelift custom catalogs, including the ability to create, track, and manage catalogs of open source components and the policies that govern them across the organization.
- We'll explore how Tidelift-managed catalogs can give your organization a head start on building a paved path of approved components for development teams to use, similar to how the larges.
The Tidelift guide to managed open source
How to develop an effective strategy for maintaining the health of your organization’s open source supply chain
Managed open source is a strategic way for organizations to consistently manage, secure, and maintain the health of their open source supply chain. This guide explains how a managed open source strategy can help your development team save time and reduce risk when using open source to develop applications.
Learn more about:
- What a managed open source strategy is and how it works
- The areas in which unmanaged open source drains productivity and increases risk
- How to create, track, and manage customizable catalogs of known-good, proactively maintained open source components
Secure cloud video-streaming & premium quality of experience with Harmonic & Microsoft Azure
Reliable, quality video streaming and delivery has taken on critical business importance as many areas of daily life move into the digital realm. Now is the time to unlock business opportunity from your video content with AI-driven and scalable video delivery solutions that enable greater monetization.
With a cloud-based approach to video, you can increase monetization opportunities, ensure low latency streaming, and create high-value channels with the agility you need to scale in real-time. Explore the shift from passive, traditional broadcast viewing to more personalized, interactive on-screen experiences that drive higher per-user revenues and increase customer loyalty.
Learn more in the e-book Deliver Video Streaming Services with the Power of the Cloud and discover how Harmonic’s VOS360 cloud video streaming platforms:
- Provide a secure, cloud-based solution for even the most complex video workflows
- Enable dynamic, server-side ad insertion for targeted advertising
- Ensure maximum uptime for worldwide service continuity
- Simplify media workflows with unrivaled video quality on every screen
Best Practices Kit: 5 Key Considerations When Buying An ICM Solution
Build the Business Case with a True ROI
Are you ready for Incentive Compensation Management?
Properly implemented, incentive compensation management software enables organizations to automate sales commission calculations, easily communicate sales comp to reps, and provide actionable insights by having all sales comp data in one place. By investing in an incentive compensation management solution, companies can dramatically reduce the cost and pain of managing sales comp and increase revenue by offering their sales team clear visibility into their performance against targets.
Before you embark on your ICM initiative, make sure you’ve given time to consider the factors that can spell the difference between success and failure. In this kit, we outline 5 key considerations when evaluating whether to invest in an ICM solution. By adhering to these important steps, you can ensure you have a successful project and do not risk a failed implementation.
What You Will Learn in this Best Practices Kit- 5 Key Considerations:
- Lay the Essential Groundwork
- Start with the End in Mind
- 6 Key Areas to Consider when Evaluating ICM Vendors
- Identify the Internal Evaluation Team and Start Plan
- Make the Business Case by Developing the Strongest ROI
- Start with the End in Mind
A Buyer’s Guide to Incentive Compensation Management Software
Spreadsheets and inflexible legacy compensation management systems are a roadblock. Despite the opportunity, much of sales compensation is still dependent on spreadsheets, even though 90% typically contain hidden errors. Even organizations running traditional Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) and Sales Performance Management (SPM) systems still heavily rely on spreadsheets, due to the inflexibility of these legacy apps. Yet spreadsheets and their associated problems can have a painful impact.
Errors damage sales trust. Sales ends up wasting time in “shadow-accounting” (doublechecking their commissions). This often leads to poorly designed compensation models that result in lop-sided over-attainment or SPIFs that don’t drive ROI on spend. It’s why organizations are reexamining their sales comp systems and processes—whether moving from spreadsheets or re-evaluating the ease of use and flexibility of their existing sales comp software. One leading industry analyst predicts that by 2022 nearly half of B2B companies with more than 100-employees will deploy new solutions to tackle the problem of managing and automating sales comp.
What You Will Learn in this Guide:
1) How to ensure data flows and transformations don’t jeopardize comp
automation
2) What to look for in a compensation plan builder so you don’t run out of runway
3) Which comp and payee workflows are essential - and common mistakes to avoid
4) The key questions to ask around reporting and analytics
5) Why many ICM solutions are so hard to use
6) How to ensure you won’t be left high and dry with service and support
Penetration Testing: Protecting Your Company the Right Way
Just as doctors must probe their patients to uncover hidden maladies or diseases, so too must companies probe their networks, systems, applications, and web assets to uncover weaknesses subject to possible hacking. The practice is called Penetration Testing, or pen testing for short. As with all issues relating to security, there are optimal ways of conduct pen tests and less than ideal ways.
This article addresses:
- The scope of cybercrime and other issues requiring rigorous pen testing
- Types of pen tests
- Expectations and responsibilities of pen testers
- Generally accepted best practices for pen testing
- Top tools to assist with pen testing
- Considerations for performing pen testing by internal staff or an outsourced firm
The IT Leadership Playbook
Regardless of what’s on your business card, you’re the coach of your IT team. Your team is looking to you for a game plan and your organization’s leadership is looking for results.
Just like a sports team, your IT team has generalists and specialists, rookies and veterans. How do you meet the needs of all of these players? How do you help them achieve their goals?
It’s up to you to field an effective team every day and anticipate the future needs of your organization… all while IT unemployment is at an all-time low.
Welcome to the IT leadership playbook. Finally, you’ve got a resource to help you achieve a winning record.
The IT Training Buyer’s Guide & Checklist
The shift to digital learning for IT professionals has been underway for years, and it has only accelerated as IT teams have adapted to working from home during the forced Coronavirus lockdown. As the demand for online and distance learning options has grown, the IT training landscape has expanded. Luckily for business owners and tech leaders, there was already a robust marketplace for IT training options to fit the needs of remote teams.
Digital learning platforms provide a number of advantages for businesses looking to keep their staff trained and certified, but it’s important to choose a program that is right for your team’s needs. With a range of price, quality, and curricula, leaders should carefully consider a number of factors when selecting an IT training partner.
As your teams continue to adapt to new challenges for work and learning, use this guide to determine how to best support your teams with online IT training and certification.In this Guide, you will learn
- Why Online Training is a Fit for IT Teams
- The Features Your Teams Want
- Tools for Leaders and Managers
- How to Choose the Vendor for You
- Get Your Selection Checklist
Pricing Guide Virtual Event Platform Software
Get SourceForge’s Pricing Guide for Virtual Event Platform Software!
Download the e-guide and SourceForge will take you through the main pricing models of a few popular Virtual Event Platform Software. You will also learn :
- The benefits of Virtual Event Platform Software
- Breaking down pricing models
- Review price ranges
- Integration benefits
If you are interested in upgrading your Virtual Event Platform Software download the e- guide and one of our trusted partners will connect with you with a no-obligation quote.
Building resilience into manufacturing in a disruptive world
Manufacturing operations are continually grappling with the uncertainties and rapid changes across the business landscape—factors and events well beyond their control. This has been true for years and is now even more acute with a pandemic causing wild swings in supply and demand.
Smart application of the latest technology can help operations anticipate and adapt with more agility, but many manufacturers have been slow to fully embrace digital transformation, still relying on familiar but inefficient devices such as analog clipboards. The right partners can provide manufacturing operations with:
- Insights, technologies, and innovative solutions to help digitally transform more quickly with less risk and an increase in return on digital investments.
- Integrated and standard ways of working for sustainable operational excellence.
- Online services that help build and sustain capability and empower people.
- Off-the-shelf use cases that have been tried and tested.
- Point solutions to address critical shop-floor challenges.
- Practical applications of digital technologies focused on creating immediate value.
Read the e-book Greater Resilience and Higher Performance for Manufacturers: Accelerating Digital Transformation with EY Smart Factory to see how having the right partners can give you the operational resilience to thrive in today’s disruptive business environment.
Download this e-book now >>
Pricing Guide Supply Chain Management Software
Get SourceForge’s Pricing Guide for Supply Chain Management Software!
Download the e-guide and SourceForge will take you through the main pricing models of a few popular Supply Chain Management Softwares. You will also learn :
- The benefits of Supply Chain Management Software
- Breaking down pricing models
- Review price ranges
- Integration benefits
If you are interested in upgrading your Supply Chain Management System download the e- guide and one of our trusted partners will connect with you with a no-obligation quote.
The Benefits of Printer Pods and Desktop Printers
The world is changing, and as a result, there will be an impact on the way we live and work.
This infographic with Brother explores detailed solutions to reduce contact between colleagues, respect social distancing, and improve productivity in the workspace.
