Best Practices in Management and IT

If you need to ensure your information systems are being controlled "efficiently" and that the right risks are being mitigated to the approved acceptable level, then ask us to perform an Information Systems Management Review. With GLB, SOX, HIPAA, Basel II or CPI government/industry compliance regulations all high on the corporate CXO's agenda, can you afford not to ensure your company is managing its information/software security correctly? Talk to one of our Software Consultants or Market Analyst Professionals today. We will help guide you through the best practices for selecting, implementing, managing, and securing your software systems. In real-world application, Best Practice is a very useful concept. Despite the need to improve on processes as times change and things evolve. The changing of "Best Practice" over time is a major force in ERP system lifecycles. Many major software releases have been prompted by the change or introduction of a "Best Practice" within an industry. For example, the American Productivity and Quality Centre (APQC) [1] suggests that:

Four themes resonate through successful benchmarking and best-practice efforts:

• Multi-enterprise collaboration is the accurate timely transfer of information and is a people-to-people process; meaningful relationships must precede sharing and transfer.
• Learning and knowledge transfer is an interactive, ongoing, and dynamic process that cannot rest on a static body of knowledge. Employees are inventing, improvising, and learning something new every day. This knowledge is a corporate asset and must be nurtured and used effectively.
• Benchmarking stems from a personal and organizational willingness to learn. A vibrant sense of curiosity and a deep respect and desire for learning are the keys to success. When performed dynamically, however, trending becomes a basis for developing enterprise-level best practices.
• Best practices do not have one template or form for everyone to follow. In the context of Business Management, Best Practice is the concept that a good process and planning, is being followed in the Execution Management of a project plan, and that changes to the initial plan, dependencies, and goals are being tracked and documented.