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Your flexible friend: Can you put a price on happiness?
Comment Fortunately for those afflicted with this timeless conundrum, a more structured, less fluffy method for assessing ROI is emerging, due partly to pressure on enterprise property management departments to increase efficiency. [29 Oct 2003]
Open source switch guide launched by EC
News Nine local authorities across the UK are currently trialling open source software to boost cost and efficiency across government. The EC yesterday launched a new set of guidelines designed to help government IT managers decide whether to make the... [22 Oct 2003]
Technology key to UK business efficiency
News But almost two-thirds of senior managers said their personal efficiency had not increased and that their time was not being used as well as it could be with technology, or a lack of, to blame. The SAP Efficiency in Business survey was carried out... [04 Sep 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ups and downs of power
Comment The best efficiency can be achieved with the plant running at 90 per cent or so of its rated capacity but large nuclear plants are not suited to respond to sudden power demand changes. Three years ago I was working with a number of groups in the US... [03 Sep 2003]
Smart phones don't depend on 3G, vendors protest
News The company has been widely praised for the elegance and efficiency of its software but critics point to a lack of experience with linking to enterprise software. Some of the biggest companies in mobile have responded to recent research showing... [26 Feb 2003]
UK companies suffering database meltdown
News The problem is exacerbated by cost-efficiency drives based on increased levels of automation, such as customer self-service, just-in-time supply chains and collaborative working. The survey results are based on 100 interviews with UK IT managers... [15 Jan 2003]
Meta Group's 12 Days of Christmas
Comment The depressed European market over the past year has forced IT organisations to scrutinise expenditure in search of productivity and efficiency gains. The CIO needs to ensure line of business managers in this new connected environment conform to... [18 Dec 2002]
Shoddy search engines costing companies
News The time required to properly understand tools can become a drain on efficiency, too. Nielsen also suggested that executives grant more authority to intranet managers to improve corporate systems. Intranet managers typically get mired in squabbles... [14 Nov 2002]
Devil's Advocate: What chance open source?
Comment Support services are readily available for developments that take advantage of the by now familiar robustness and efficiency of Linux. Neither side is wholly right but my judgment is that the project managers have the upper hand at present. [30 Jul 2002]
Michael Dell: The 'secret of my success'
News The founder of Dell Computers said his organisation's challenging targets and its focus on supply chain efficiency have helped give it its current market value of $36bn. Michael Dell was speaking at the Institute of Directors.silicon.com... [23 May 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Work work work, OS attacks and the secret of Google's success
Comment For all of the many issues that face the German economy at the moment, Germany has been held to be a model of industrial effectiveness and efficiency for the majority of the last 20 years. Equally, the managers of Windows systems may have less time... [28 Aug 2001]
Model Management: Old whine in nearly-new bottle
Comment Did firms' leanness and efficiency leave them better placed to exploit the growth and excitement of the "new economy"? Hammer and Champy's influential work, however carefully conceived, was used by managers to support simplistic and damaging... [14 Aug 2001]
Downturn drives business offshore
News It's easier to get European companies to outsource their programme development but the US recession is forcing companies to outsource not just through cost but also speed and efficiency," he said. India is the offshore software development centre... [05 Jun 2001]
Hanging on the telephone: The hazards of poor CRM
Comment Train their call centre staff to deal with complaints with efficiency and understanding and employ enough staff so they each have the time to do this with every customer they deal with. It blames telecoms managers for poor CRM implementations that... [26 Oct 2000]
World Bank launches $3bn e-bond scheme
News The bank believes using the Internet will broaden the distribution of securities and improve efficiency of secondary market trading. The lead managers of the project will be Goldman, Sachs & Co.and Lehman [07 Jan 2000]
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