Susan Cramm is founder and president of Valuedance, an executive coaching firm in San Clemente, Calif. Her CIO column, Executive Coach, offers advice and answers readers' questions on approaches to thriving in organizational life.
Reader Q&A: How To Make Actions Convey Your Agenda
Executive Coach Susan Cramm answers questions about how to make sure your actions send the right message to your staff.
Read More »Leading Change With Every Move You Make
Smart leaders leverage the attention focused on them by using it as a platform to to convey their leadership agenda. Here's how they do it.
Read More »Reader Q&A: Fostering strategic thinking in your organization
Executive Coach Susan Cramm answers questions about how to get your organization thinking strategically, plus putting leadership responsibility where it belongs.
Read More »Reader Q&A: Advice for Managing Business Meetings
In person or via teleconference, improve your decision-making processes in the meeting room.
Read More »A strategic mindset is worthless without the ability to mobilize commitment. Communication and collaboration are the keys to making strategy stick.
Read More »Advice on Leadership and Workplace Behavior
Tips for dealing with bomb-throwers, and how to please your superiors without stepping on the toes of those below you.
Read More »Decision making in IT is pretty messy. It doesn't have to be. CIOs can avoid acrimony by taking a fresh approach to the process. Here's how.
Read More »Advice on Reaching Out to Business Partners and Effective Leadership
Advice from career coach Susan Cramm: IT executives need to find collaborative business partners. Leaders listen a lot so they can tell what motivates people to act.
Read More »Winning back estranged colleagues is no easy task. Step 1: Eat humble pie. Step 2: Find the win-win solutions that define effective collaboration.
Read More »CIOs who understand how to influence top managers can create a powerful role for themselves, their organizations and technology.
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Service Level Management Best Practices Life Cycle Overview - Improve Service Levels
Best practices for Service Level Management (SLM) is a process for consistently meeting customer requirements and delivering on IT's promises. See the steps required to ensure high-quality SLM.
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Keeping Your Members Safe from Online Scams and Predators
In order to keep fraudsters out, romance sites must deploy effective solutions that look at information independent of what is supplied by users. A device fingerprinting solution such as iovation ReputationManager™ provides unique insight into the computers being used to create multiple accounts and exposes hidden device-account relationships that identity-based fraud solutions often miss.
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