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A Value Case for FCPA Compliance

Many companies choose to invest significant time, effort and money into Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance because they fear the consequences of failure to comply. The good news is that FCPA compliance can have an upside: creating value for the business.

In a new byline article on CorporateComplianceInsights.com, the IT Value Challenge’s author shares three ways to leverage FCPA compliance to creatve value for the enterprise and getter a better return on those frequently mandatory investments.

To read the article click here or visit CorporateComplianceInsights.com.

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How to recapture IT spending

In a new article on CIOUpdate.com, the IT Value Challenge’s author outlines ways that companies can reclaim a portion of their non value-creating IT spending to make it available to improve company economic performance or for differential investment.

To read the article click here or visit CIOUpdate.com.

Please note this is the second in a series of three articles. The first article in the series may be found here.

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How to divorce your tech vendor

Norman Harber, CEO at IT Value Challenge’s partner company Leverage Corporation, shares tips and tricks with InfoWorld readers about how to make breaking up with your tech vendor not quite so hard to do in a new article by contributing editor Dan Tynan of Infoworld.com.

Click here to read the article or visit Infoworld.com.

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What if Your Achievements Are Hard to Quantify?

The IT Value Challenge’s author shares creative ways IT executives and professionals can state hard-to-quantify acheivements in a way that will resonate with business executives and potential employers in a new IT Business Edge article by IT career guru Susan Hall.

Click here to read the article or visit ITBusinessEdge.com

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Regulatory Compliance: Are You Affected?

In a new article in Processor Magazine, the IT Value Challenge’s author shares a value case for voluntary regulatory compliance enabled by IT as part of an overall strategy of facilitating enterprise regulatory compliance.

To read the article click here, or visit Processor.com, or see page 27 in the December 3rd print edition.

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Understanding the ROI of Value Creation

In a new CIOUpdate.com article, the IT Value Challenge’s author outlines an approach both business and technology executives can take to “have their cake and eat it too” by allocating a greater share of the IT budget to activities that create value for the enterprise.

To read the article click here or visit CIOUpdate.com.

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3 Reasons to Get IT out of the IT Department

In a new article on CIOUpdate.com, the IT Value Challenge’s author shares a way to leverage a core principle of Japanese lean manufacturing techniques to increase mutual understanding between IT departments the businesses they support — in a way that can benefit both significantly.

To read the article click here or visit CIOUpdate.com.

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IT’s biggest money wasters

    

The IT Value Challenge’s author shares a way executives can avoid one of several significant IT “money wasters” and reallocate scarce resources to more value-creating activities with InforWorld, CIO and ComputerWorldUK readers in this new article by master IT writer Dan Tynan.

Click here to read the article on InfoWorld.com, here to read the same article on CIO.com, or here to read the same article on ComputerWorldUK.com

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Performance Improvement and the CIO

The IT Value Challenge’s author shares four surprising reasons why companies should have their CIOs lead their enterprise performance improvement initiatives in a new article on CIOUpdate.com.

To view, visit http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3902361/Performance-Improvement-and-the-CIO.htm

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Making the most of Continuous Controls Monitoring investments

Despite the steep costs of implementing Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), AMR Research reports that it will be one of the top three GRC investment areas of 2010. GRC executives must maximize the value of this significant investment to justify increased GRC spending going forward.

Many IT departments have, or will, be challenged to make significant investments in CCM technology in 2010 and 2011. There are opportunities for IT to work with Governance, Risk and Compliance groups to maximize the return on those investments and extend the core capabilities of CCM technologies to create value elsewhere in the business. By doing so, IT can demonstrate additional value and help justify other technology-enabled process improvements as well.

To read the article click here or visit CorporateComplianceInsights.com.

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