IT Best Practices: Episode 96 – We’ve all been there – waiting in a conference room as a presenter fumbles with cables, trying to get a laptop connected to a monitor or projector. Or someone is trying to join a meeting remotely, but they can’t even see a presentation, let alone drive one. With a […]

IT Best Practices: As technology evolves, Intel’s worldwide factories have experienced growing complexity in products and processes. We use data analysis and sensors to improve product quality, reduce capital costs, and speed time to market. Often a single tool is equipped with multiple sensors, each collecting specific, unique data. We also use Internet of Things [...]

IT Best Practices: Episode 95 – The Intel IT Annual Performance Report is out. It outlines the technological innovations that are driving growth at Intel, and creating extraordinary opportunities for IT leaders. The report’s release makes this a good time to check in with Kim Stevenson, Intel’s Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer, about [...]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s smart factories use highly specialized Internet of Things (IoT) data specifications that make it possible to bring new factories online quickly and reliably by replicating identical processes from one facility to another. Imagine being able to do the same thing with other buildings, such as offices and airports. These buildings present […]

IT Best Practices: In the rapidly changing business and technology environment, manufacturers are striving to stay competitive, now and into the future, by increasing productivity and lowering costs. Like many companies, Intel has evolved over the decades to provide competitive advantages through sophisticated automation—smart manufacturing—which has helped its factories increase product yields and quality, reduced […]

IT Best Practices: The 2015-2016 Intel IT Annual Performance Report highlights technology trends driving rapid innovation across our enterprise. This edition showcases how Intel IT capitalizes on new technology to create business value and become a catalyst for organizational transformation. Aligning to business goals, Intel IT delivers operational excellence and provides thought leadership on strategic […]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT set a goal of defining and implementing a single user experience framework as a standard for all enterprise solutions. We developed a holistic understanding of the enterprise experience and then provided a model for other IT teams to emulate when developing products and tools. The framework is a conceptual map […]

IT Best Practices: Effective collaboration between Intel employees enables them to share innovative ideas – a significant factor in Intel’s competitive advantage. Intel IT has long been a key enabler of collaboration solutions for our enterprise. We continually seek ways to improve the collaboration experience for Intel employees, empowering them to bring their innovative concepts [...]

IT Best Practices: Intel uses social community forums to engage publicly with customers, developers, and industry experts. It is an important part of fostering discussions, ideas, and knowledge sharing that often lead to industry-wide solutions. In spring 2015 Intel experienced a significant escalation in spam attacks on its public community forums—as many as ten thousand […]

IT Best Practices: Imagine a computing environment where PCs fix themselves, even before employees know there’s a problem. Or where employees are proactively notified of issues, including self-service answers without having to know a lot of technical lingo or infrastructure details. This vision, consistent with our history of self-service solutions, inspired Intel IT to create […]