Evergreen Strategies Volume 1, No. 3
Strategic Views
- IT Governance Frameworks: Overhead or Strategic Weapon?
This high-level briefing explores the business drivers fueling IT process and compliance needs today. It examines the frameworks for IT governance that have emerged as obvious choices for process and compliance standards, including ITIL and CobiT, and defines a logical strategy for leveraging these to your business benefit.
- Holistic Approach to Security Implementation
IT managers often spend the bulk of their resources on technology solutions to combat security breaches without fully addressing the root of the breaches, namely ineffective policy and process planning and enforcement. Evergreen recommends a holistic approach, where a process for security implementation across the entire organization, based on best practices outlined in ITIL and CobiT, is developed.
- ITIL?s ?Special Sauce?
What ITIL approach is most successful in terms of securing support and funding? Evergreen?s VP of Consulting, Joe Koester, examines Change and Configuration Management as ITIL?s ?special sauce.?
Latest Updates
Look for Evergreen at Upcoming Industry Events
Evergreen CEO, Don Casson, and Evergreen Senior Consultant, Scott Braden, will both be featured speakers at the upcoming IT Financial Management Association (ITFMA) World of IT Financial Management© 2006 Conference June 12-16 in Orlando, FL. Scott will be conducting a pre-conference workshop, IT Asset Management Disciplines and Techniques Seminar, on Monday, June 12 starting at 8:00 a.m. Scott will also speak on Wednesday, June 14 during a session titled, How to Build and Manage Best Practices in Asset Acquisition and Procurement Inventory Control. Don will be conducting a session on Thursday, June 15, titled ITAM to the Rescue ? Saving IT in the Financial Service Sector.
Don will also be speaking at the HP Software Forum in Miami Beach next month. The Forum will be held June 19-23 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Don?s session, Realizing the Business Benefits of an Enterprise Wide Change Management Solution, will be held on June 21.
Join Evergreen & HP for an InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Evergreen CEO, Don Casson, and HP Solution Manager, Rebecca Lawson, will present Proving the Business Value of ITIL through Change Management. This informative session leverages the irresistible power of change management to drive large-scale organizational change like ITIL and illustrates a proven approach to implementing these changes with examples of client successes. From improving process, to automating compliance, to driving efficiency, Don and Rebecca will discuss how to plan for the long term while also proving value in the short term. They will also discuss the results of a joint ITIL and Change Management Survey.
To register for the June 7th WebCast and complete the survey. If you will be unable to join the WebCast, but would still like to participate in the survey and receive a free white paper analyzing its results, go to http://www.peregrine.com/support/surveys/form.htm.
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