Vocational Education

WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes an uncommon look at how – thanks to mobile and cloud technologies – the world of work is changing and why. Specifically, it focuses on ways IT leaders can be proactive about building a work environment that's ready for the future.

Posted: 02 Apr 2013 | Published: 12 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, learn how the Internet of Things has opened the door to investigative analytics, and discover how you can use this approach to predict and prevent negative business patterns, better support customers and users, and more.

Posted: 23 May 2013 | Published: 23 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: "Many CIOs are being pressured to demonstrate IT value. A service catalog can help you promote your services in a way the business can easily understand. It will become your service management foundation that can boost IT visibility and constantly demonstrate IT value to the business."

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 | Published: 20 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details architectural, design and functional changes to current management systems. With these changes come a more streamlined approach to assimilate, model and analyze data from multiple sources in real time, as well as non-real time functions such as planning, change management, change review and asset optimization.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | Published: 19 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource describes how enterprise service buses (ESBs) can drive the success of big data initiatives by integrating data from disparate systems securely and reliably. Inside, learn how ESBs can help you realize the full potential of big data and boost business performance.

Posted: 15 Mar 2013 | Published: 15 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: Access this informative resource to discover how to build a certification lab environment to deliver hands-on experience to the workers you're training.

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 | Published: 08 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource describes how social, mobile, cloud, and other popular consumer technologies are impacting today's workers, and explains how human resources (HR) leaders can harness the power of these technologies into learning, performance, and talent management strategies.

Posted: 15 May 2013 | Published: 15 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: Successful organizations are built on a foundation of trust. This resource introduces three ideas that can help you foster trust between managers and employees, and also outlines key tools that are necessary for sustaining this workforce trust.

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: In today's highly competitive business environment, organizations depend on improved visibility and better business intelligence (BI) tools in order to make smarter decisions – but with the myriad of BI tools available it can be difficult to choose. Read on to learn about a cutting-edge BI platform that outperforms the competition.

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 | Published: 21 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: According to industry leaders and pundits in 2006, the role of the CIO was at a crossroads. Read the white paper to see how CIOs are beginning to seize this opportunity to play increasingly impactful strategic roles within their enterprise, and how IBM research can provide CIOs with the skills necessary to become a Business-Savvy CIO.

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 19 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: What’s the truth behind the failure of many BI projects? Read this paper to learn the main factors leading to disappointment. These pitfalls are not those of new entrants to BI but have been repeated by smart and well managed companies worldwide.

Posted: 04 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and see how an effective business analytics strategy can help organizations optimize performance, operationalize decisions and solve mission problems.

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 | Published: 15 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Organizations that seek the elusive goal of a single view of the customer need first to instill an information-sharing culture throughout the company, not simply attempt to apply a quick technology fix. Read this white paper to learn more about how to creat a knowledge-sharing culture in your business.

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 | Published: 12 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the results of a budgeting survey aimed at discovering the most significant budgeting, forecasting, and reporting issues troubling today’s CFOs.

Posted: 29 May 2012 | Published: 29 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: Intel IT is engaged in developing a broad, ongoing sustainability strategy to help Intel consume fewer resources and emit less waste. In analyzing the business case for IT sustainability, we identified the bottom-line benefits and defined the metrics that enabled us to effectively reduce our environmental footprint.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides solutions to the challenges companies have in all industries: jobs that must be performed—and performed well—for the companies to succeed. To ensure a flow of the right talent for these roles over time, the best practice is for organizations to build critical-talent pipelines.

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Efficient business processes are one of the main competitive differentiators for any successful company. These processes orchestrate interactions between systems, services, people and partners to achieve key strategic and operational objectives.

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: Executives recognize that new analytics capabilities, coupled with advanced business process management, signal a major opportunity to create business advantage. Those who have the vision to apply new approaches are building intelligent enterprises positioned to thrive.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This survival guide will help you and your company start to plan an effective business continuity plan. The end result should be a reduction in risk factors and to minimize the impact of disasters that are out of your control.

Posted: 28 May 2009 | Published: 05 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to move beyond automating HR processes with a strategy for aligning, optimizing, and accelerating workforce productivity in a way that drives measurable business results. Learn how cloud-based workforce management software can help you to understand, measure, and act upon workforce data.

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to move beyond automating HR processes with a strategy for aligning, optimizing, and accelerating workforce productivity in a way that drives measurable business results. Learn how cloud-based workforce management software can help you to understand, measure, and act upon workforce data.

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how organizations with highly-complex organizational structures will find an application independent business intelligence strategy more effective than BI tools that come bundled in ERP applications.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010