The Advanced Practices Council (APC) of SIM is an exclusive group of senior IT executives from a variety of backgrounds, representing a broad range of industries. The APC commissions academic research on topics of interest to its members. Papers like these are usually released to general SIM membership six months after they are made available to APC members.
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Library of APC Documents
NEW! Information Lifecycle Management Concepts, Practices, and Value
Effective information lifecycle management can minimize business risk, reduce costs, and incr ease control over data. SIM's Advanced Practices Council (APC) members sponsored a year-long study to learn how to reap these benefits. This report summarizes findings from that study, citing twelve lessons learned from early information lifecycle initiatives.
Interorganizational Technochange: How to Make Successful Choices in Electronic Partner Integration
The benefits initiating organizations get from their investments in interogranizational systems (IOS) depend on how, and how well, their business partners implement IT. This report documents effective practices in interogranizational IT change management. Author(s): Lynne Markus
The Wiki in Your Company: Lessons for Collaborative Knowledge Management
This report describes best practices for gaining significant productivity improvements with wikis in such activities as software development, project management, ad-hoc collaboration, technical support, marketing and customer relationship management. Author(s): Ann Majchrzak & Christian Wagner
How to Drive Value from IT - Senior Executives' Perspectives
This report provides a framework for understanding IT's role in creating business value. It provides guidelines for creating information visibility for senior executives. Author(s): Bill Kettinger & Donald Marchand
Deploying Far-Flung Teams: A Guidebook for Managers
This guidebook incorporates the learning from 54 successful far-flung teams. Several APC members have already changed their practices related to far-flung teams as a result of this ground-breaking research. Author(s): Ann Majchrzak & Arvind Malhorta
Grooming the 2010 CIO
This report describes a wide variety and range of practices firms use for developing their future CIOs, including four best practices across all the comapnies studied. Author(s): Ritu Agarwal & Cynthia Beath