planning - News, Features, and Slideshows

• States step out to woo Google HQ

  After the NSW government scuppered Google’s plan to establish a headquarters in Sydney CBD, politicians from other states are stepping out to woo the tech giant.

• 9 tips for better time management

  The rules of time management have changed – the days of showing up to the office, working through your inbox, shifting items to your outbox, going home and repeating the same sequence the next day are well and truly over.

• ​NAB to debut core banking platform this month

  National Australia Bank will begin rolling out its ‘personal banking origination platform’ this month, following a successful pilot last year in contact centres and branches in the North Territory and South Australia.

• John Holley: Leadership lessons from the frontline

  Back from his stint as planning officer for the UN Mission in South Sudan, John Holley shares how the Army’s approach to strategic planning and operations can apply to the business environment.

• BYOD planning and costs: Everything you need to know

  Bring Your Own Device programs promise to remove the cost of smartphones from a company's balance sheet. But most companies transitioning from company-issued smartphones to BYOD aren't even breaking even.

• How to Improve Your IT Planning in 2010

  Since we're nearing the end of the 2010 planning cycle, it's as good a time as any to review how we plan projects and whether our processes are as effective as they could be. IT planning never truly ends and tends to eat up more time than we think. As a result, CIOs and their teams have an opportunity to lead the charge to get leaner in planning.

Whitepapers about planning

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  Plan Now For Customer Service In 2021

  Customer service technology buyers typically plan for the next one to two years. But to truly become customer-obsessed, companies need to understand what new technologies and customer service experiences will come to seem normal for their customers in five years. Many of these technologies require new organizational models as well as new metrics for measuring success — changes that will take time and careful planning. This report highlights the service experiences, and the technologies that underpin them, that your customers will expect in 2021.

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  Deploying 802.11ac Wave 2 for the wireless office: What you need you know