Smart Enterprise magazine is a business technology magazine for CIOs and senior IT executives. Smart Enterprise focuses on helping these IT executives use subject matter expertise, industry best practices and real-world case studies to transform the way they manage their IT and their businesses.
October 2009 Issue
The new issue of Smart Enterprise magazine features IT leaders who are employing Lean IT practices to achieve world class results.
Cover Story
Intuit — a leader in the market for small business accounting, tax preparation and personal finance software — is expanding to offer its software in online versions. To help the company achieve this goal, CIO Ginny Lee applies Lean IT practices.
PLUS: How outsourcing provider TechTeam Global uses Lean IT as part of its three-year push to drive higher value to customers.
Topics covered: Lean IT, SaaS, Application Performance Management
Case Study: Helping Orange See Green
Orange Business Services, a European telecommunications company, is taking global optimization to the next level. Vincent Kelly, the company's CIO, and his team are using Lean principles and good old-fashioned end user feedback to optimize the IT organization.
Topics covered: Lean principles for performance improvement, global optimization, SaaS, Offshoring.
Tech Chatter: Virtualization Takes Shape
As virtualization expands to take on mission-critical production workloads, CIOs are making sure to manage physical and virtual resources in a unified, integrated manner.
Topics covered: Virtualization, Virtual Performance Management, Cloud Computing
Special Report: Looking Into Government
"Transparency" is the latest demand for government agencies worldwide. To respond, government CIOs are using IT to increase the accessibility and usability of their data — and the services they provide.
Topics covered: Government Transparency
Smart Practices: The Strongest Link
CIOs who integrate security throughout their IT operations can cut both risk and costs. As an added bonus, they also ease the challenge of regulatory compliance.
Topics covered: Security Information Management, (SIM), Lean Practices, Identity Management, Data Protection, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC).
Smart Industry: Beyond Bean Counting
Financial-services CIOs turn to Lean IT for help with business priorities, budgets, security and regulations.
Discussion topics: Lean IT, SOA, Lean Practices
CIO Roundtable: Aiming for Growth
Smart IT leaders aren't sitting out the tough economy. Instead, they're implementing IT strategies aimed at helping their companies get — and stay — ahead of the competition
Topics covered: Lean IT, Agile software development, IT Innovation, Virtualization
Smart Solutions: Who’s That Employee
As internal roles change, so does the way IT needs to deal with them.
Topics covered: Identity Management, Role Lifecycle Management, Government, Risk and Compliance.
Smart Solutions: Greater Visibility, Greater ROI
To diagnose performance bottlenecks, CIOs turn to solutions that monitor business transactions from beginning to end across layers of technology.
Topics covered: Application Portfolio Management
Market Stats: Innovation for Business’ Sake
'Practical innovation,' the new mantra for smart CIOs, involves combining current technologies in new ways. The powerful gains: sky high customer satisfaction, revved-up productivity and lowered costs.
Topics covered: Practical Innovation