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June 18, 2009 |
Vol 2009 - Issue 7 |
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IT Toolkits Newsletter
Making of a Successful CIO
Top 5 Factors Impacting Security |
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  Successful
CIOs are utilizing sophisticated, aggressive
hiring tactics to acquire the most desirable
personnel wherever they may be, while at the
same time putting extensive emphasis on
retaining and developing internal talent. This
is not easy given the current economic
situation.
Developing an
adequate in-house talent pool demands more than
a simple training program for employees'
development. Establishing a strong, predictable
internal talent pipeline requires:
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Clarity of
role and expected performance
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Management of
employees at every level
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Guided
training, education, and career planning
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Assignment of
eligible staff to the most exciting projects
to motivate them and ensure a satisfying
work experience..
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Easier to cut salaries than to lay-off --
more options open |
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 While companies certainly have laid off huge numbers of employees
since the economy first started to implode,
it appears many of them are doing everything
they can to minimize the number. However, it
is a lot easier to restore compensation and
benefits than it is to re-hire and re-train
workers when the economy improves.
According to
a recent study companies that made permanent
job cuts averaged an additional six
cost-cutting measures. Meanwhile, companies
that have avoided layoffs averaged less than
three cost-cutting measures.
It would
also be a mistake to assume that companies
avoiding layoffs are doing so out of
kindness. While forging good will is
certainly part of the decision for some
companies, many have simply cut to the bone
already or never fully ramped up after the
last downturn. Other companies may have more
workers than they need for current business
levels but are reluctant to enact widespread
layoffs, knowing that a recovery will mean
recruiting and training all new workers.
This may be
why we have seen an increase in the number
of companies cutting salaries and other
perks.
Read on.......
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Top Five Factors that Impact Security
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 Everyone talks
about security, but it seems that security and data breaches
are in the news more than ever. Janco has reviewed more than
100 instances of security and data breaches and found a
number of core factors contributing to their occurrences:
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Data volumes and velocity of change are
increasing at an exponential rate.
In many companies, data is so voluminous, so
disorganized and dispersed so frequently
that IT departments aren't sufficiently
staffed to implement standard security
standards.
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IT departments are reactive, not proactive. IT departments tend
to respond to problems after the fact versus
identifying solutions before a problem
occurs, largely due to a lack of resources.
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Users do not want to change or add processes. There is a
wariness toward deploying yet another set of
rules and tasks to follow on each smartphone,
desktop and laptop that might add
procedures, hog processor cycles, require
frequent updates and slow down users as they
try to do their jobs.
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Complexity of security compliance. Devising and
implementing a comprehensive, viable
security policy may get in the way of
traditional business practices, requiring
the involvement of not just IT but also
human resources, finance and legal teams,
and business unit managers.
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Addressing 20% of the problem versus 80%. Many companies
focus on intentional data leakage. In
reality, though, most data leakage occurs
when there is a lapse and simple, proactive
steps (such as enciphering sensitive files
on laptops and ensuring that only authorized
individuals access sensitive information)
could have prevented the problem in the
first place.
Read on...
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Procedures Template
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