Management Guidelines

NCC Guidelines - Volume 2 - Number 2

There is no accepted definition of big data and it means different things to different people. However, recent research for Capgemini shows that using big data has already improved organisations by an average of 26% in the past three years. Together with cloud and mobility, big data is changing the rules of 21st century business.

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NCC Guidelines - Volume 2 - Number 1

The time has come to change how B2B marketers think about social media. In these Guidelines, Richard Brenkley, managing director of Coast Digital, takes you through that transition to get you to a place where you can effectively implement social media with great effect.

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NCC Guidelines - Volume 1 - Number 6

In this Guideline, NCC head of information assurance, Dr Daniel Dresner, describes what SMEs need to do to protect their information - and how the IASME standard can help.

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NCC Guidelines - Volume 1 - Number 5

In 2009, the UKs National Computing Centre accepted the offer of a seat on Microsofts Interoperability Executive Customer Council (IECC), to bring our diverse members perspectives to the councils meetings with Microsoft staff and to be a communication channel back to our members. These Guidelines are such a communication.

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NCC Guidelines - Volume 1 - Number 4

Increasing agility, collaboration and communication, streamlining and automating processes whilst still meeting the needs of a mobile, remote and flexible workforce are all top priorities for many organisations looking to maximise efficiencies whilst reducing operating costs in todays volatile economic environment.

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NCC Guidelines - Volume 1 - Number 3

These Guidelines consider the contribution green IT can make to a corporate sustainability strategy and include an Action Plan of 10 points to consider.

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NCC Guidelines - Volume 1 - Number 2

These Guidelines will help you assess your journey to the cloud and will help you identify where cloud services might fit with your organisation and how to deploy them in a way that satisfies your business drivers, your security and information governance concerns.

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NCC Guidelines - Volume 1 - Number 1

The fully Unified Business and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is on the radar of most CIOs and IT Directors and remains one of the hottest topics around at the moment. And with a tough economic climate and cost savings paramount, there is little doubt that adoption of the technologies that enable this will grow exponentially throughout 2011/12.

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Early signs for 2011 are of a recovering economy, however cost cutting for many and cost containment for all are still very firmly driving our strategic thinking in IT terms

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