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How to grow tech businesses during a recession
Comment Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den judge James Caan explains how to shape up your business through the downturn. Recessions don't need to be a time of doom and gloom. IT is more fundamental to businesses today than in any... [06 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News If IT departments were reluctant to move to Mac OS due to its associated costs before the downturn hit, their recession-squeezed tech budgets have made sure that any big hardware or software shifts are now even less likely. [02 Oct 2009]
'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
News CIOs' reluctance to invest in new technology is unsurprising given the ongoing downturn, however - with European enterprises decreasing their 2009 IT operating budgets by two per cent and IT capital budgets by one per... [02 Oct 2009]
Reducing Expenditures in Network Infrastructures: Optimizing Costs and Operating Efficiencies With Today's Data Networks
White Paper In this economic downturn, many ICT (Information and Communications Technology) managers are grappling with hard choices regarding cost-cutting measures in their enterprise ICT architechture. However, some enterprises... [02 Oct 2009]
Chris Hyman
AS Profile There is little sign of the economic downturn impacting on the fortunes of Chris Hyman's Serco Group. By August of this year the support services company had seen its half-yearly revenues grow to £1.95bn, an increase of... [29 Sep 2009]
Retailers' Response to the Global Economy Downturn — Enabling Immersive Shopping Experiences
White Paper The global retail industry is now moving towards the attainment of total immersive shopping experience (ISE) abilities — integrated customer relationship management (CRM) software suites — based upon a common enterprise information... [28 Sep 2009]
IDG White Paper: How You Can Gain Business Advantage by Protecting Against Internal & External Threats
White Paper Not only are they quick and easy to deploy, use and maintain, they are designed to meet the constraints of limited IT resources and budgets in the face of the current economic downturn. Recent years have seen increasing... [24 Sep 2009]
IDG White Paper: How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolidated Information Encompassing All Your Data
White Paper Not only are they quick and easy to deploy, use and maintain, they are designed to meet the constraints of limited IT resources and budgets in the face of the current downturn. This paper argues that the key to enabling... [24 Sep 2009]
Uncomplaining techies turn in extra hours for free
News With the downturn pushing many IT departments to do more with less, it seems ordinary IT workers are bearing the brunt: among techies who have seen an increase in their working hours, the majority attribute growing time... [23 Sep 2009]
Recession Proofing the Management of Telecom
White Paper The current economic downturn has reinforced the need for companies to optimize services and obtain hard dollar savings from IT investments. With stressed and shrinking budgets, many companies are struggling to keep... [19 Sep 2009]
Management Magnified: Strategies for Revenue Growth in an Economic Downturn
White Paper At first glance, the global economic crisis, which began in the US financial sector, does not seem propitious for growth. Indeed, a survey on decision-making conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit in May 2009 indicates that as... [16 Sep 2009]
Information Is King: Business Analytics in the Age of the Downturn and the (Re)Emergence of the Customer
White Paper This white paper reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics. This research program is an online survey of C-level executives at leading large and midsize companies who are... [16 Sep 2009]
Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment The IT industry in a downturn is a tough place to be. At the same time, Johnson said, the drive for greater efficiency during the downturn means there's an increased demand placed on the IT department. [04 Sep 2009]
Getting Past Fear & Anxiety: 5 Best Practices to Manage Through Challenging Economic Times
White Paper This paper is aimed at small business owners interested in increasing revenues and productivity during the downturn. Special attention is paid to how to make technology work harder for one during the... [02 Sep 2009]
Consolidated IT Event Management: Five Requirements for Greater Efficiency
White Paper During a downturn, it's hard to see the upside. Today, revenues are down and budgets have fallen along with them. Companies have frozen capital expenditures and the push is on to cut the costs of operations. [01 Sep 2009]
