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Role Based Productivity

Posted Friday, October 30, 2009 4:21 PM by adhall
Productivity is something that we talk a lot about.  But what does Productivity mean?  Is productivity a generic term?  Does it apply to everyone in the same way?  I don’t think so.  I think we need to start looking at Productivity Read More...
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What’s New in Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2 (available now)

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:44 AM by adhall
Today the availability of MDOP 2009 R2 has been announced . MDOP is a set of 6 technologies (currently, this may expand over time) that increase desktop manageability, reduce your TCO, and allow for rapid technology adoption. They are: Microsoft Application Read More...
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Microsoft Technology Solutions Part 1 – Reducing Cost

Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:17 PM by adhall
In the scene setting post of this series I mapped out a set of 3 Microsoft technology areas where we are helping our customers  – Reducing Cost, Getting Agile and Efficient, and coping with Growth. In this post, I’m going to cover ‘Step One’ on the Read More...
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The Microsoft technology solutions that help you save money, get agile and grow

Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:54 AM by adhall
This is the first in a series of posts showcasing the Microsoft technology solutions that can help you save money, build an agile and flexible business and sustain a growing business. A phrase that I heard Brett Roberts use recently was “De-invest to Read More...
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Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 have been RTM. Great, now what?

Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 3:15 PM by adhall
Now that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been Released To Manufacturing , it’s time to look at the steps from here so that you can start experiencing the benefits of these new platforms and some new ways of working. Understand your capability Read More...
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Microsoft technologies – making things easier

Posted Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:37 AM by adhall
In this current environment, the deepest recession most of us will ever see in our lifetimes, it is time to focus on the things that matter, and leave some of the emotional decisions behind. In the past 6 months, and I suspect for the upcoming 12 months Read More...
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Building the Business Case for Optimization

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:17 PM by adhall
Most organizations use some form or another of business case to decide where they will invest their money, so it is important that you put yourself in the best possible position to get your business case signed off. Given the current economic environment, Read More...
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Business Agility - Revisiting the Directions to your Destination

Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:47 PM by adhall
I have previously written about how Directions without a Destination are of no use, and how there are 3 things that you must have. Well I have revisited this article and in fact there are 4. In addition to the previously documented things you must have Read More...
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Optimization and your Organizations Purpose for Being

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:44 PM by adhall
Every Organization has a Purpose for Being.  Every single one.  There are all different kinds of purposes, and these will vary between organizations who are in the same industry even. Do you know what your Organizations Purpose for Being is? Read More...
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Creating Business Agility through an Optimized Desktop

Posted Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:22 PM by adhall
I am working on a scenario at the moment involving the deployment of Office 2007.  The customer has a fairly traditional desktop environment, with an image based deployment containing common applications using SCCM ( System Center Configuration Manager Read More...
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Without a Destination, what use are Directions?

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:54 PM by adhall
I had a conversation with a client this afternoon, one who is undertaking to get control of their somewhat diverse environment. We got to talking about how Microsoft could help them, and about half way through the discussion I happened to ask if they Read More...
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Core Infrastructure Optimization – moving from Basic to Standardized to Rationalized

Posted Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:04 PM by adhall
Something I have had saved in my Draft Blogs for a while now is to post these links to the detailed guidance on how you actually move up the capability model. These documents contain a huge amount of information about what capabilities you will need, Read More...
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Optimization: If you want to lose weight, don’t stop eating!

Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 6:48 PM by adhall
In the current economic turmoil, most organisations are looking to be more ‘economical’ with their finances. Unfortunately this requirement for fiscal responsibility quite often gets interpreted as ‘stop spending all money, reduce staff, cut back anything Read More...
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What does the CIO care about in 2009?

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:05 PM by adhall
The annual CIO magazine article, published in January 2009 (refer http://computerworld.com.edgesuite.net/cio/pdfs/2009_state_of_the_cio_highlights.pdf ) shows the importance of the goals of the IO Model and the links in my previous post. The article linked Read More...
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Optimization - Connecting Business to IT

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:30 PM by adhall
One of the hardest things for technical people to learn is how to have a conversation with ‘The Business’.  They speak a whole different language, care about different things, and they just hate ‘getting caught up in the detail’. Well, the optimization Read More...
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