November 2012 Issue

UP FRONT

EDITORIAL PROJECT
Market trends are making project management best practices essential to success.

THREE KEYS TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
What can organizations with world-class project management teach the rest of us?

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

STRONG MEDICINE
Gilead Sciences simplifies business processes to establish a foundation for continued growth.

ARCHITECTS OF REFORM
Enterprise architecture plays an essential role in establishing Oregon as a leader in healthcare reform.

UPSIDE FOR EMPLOYEES
Training in enterprise architecture (EA) has become a fundamental building block for launching new careers.

PLANNING POWER
Project management best practices built into Oracle solutions help re-energize Bruce Power.

BUSINESS ENERGY
Energy Alloys refines upgrade processes and business operations to ride oil industry boom.

FYI

TRAVEL Playing with fire

THE RUNDOWN Cyborgs walk among us

GREEN New plastic ideas

GADGET Splash down

NETWORK Brave new seaworld

ON TOPIC General Colin Powell’s management advice from the trenches

INSIDE ORACLE

ENGINEERED PERFORMANCE
Team Oracle Captain Sean D. Tucker gives Profit a tour of the Oracle Challenger III aircraft.

COMPLETELY CONNECTED
Abhay Parasnis on how Oracle’s new social technologies will change the way we work together

FROM TRAILER TO CLOUD
The acquisition of Skire expands Oracle’s on-demand project management options.

BIG IDEAS

ANSWERING THE CALL
Turkcell CIO Ilker Kuruoz finds IT-powered growth and innovation to be the calling card for success.

PROJECTED RESULTS
Sound project management practices and technology can have an immediate impact on the bottom line.

CFO 2.0
How twenty-first-century market pressures are changing the relationship between IT and finance

CFOS CHOOSE THEIR TOP TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS

PREPARING FOR IMPACT
Plans for dealing with enterprise information will define the big data winners.