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Information Management Trends in 2005
White Paper In this complimentary white paper from TechRepublic, hundreds of IT executives were polled to find out—and the answers may surprise you. While some companies are still focused exclusively on storage and access, others are leveraging their critical... [30 Jul 2005]
silicon.com revamps - bigger and better
News We have always catered for executives who didn't come up through the IT department - but who often make key IT decisions - and now is the time to highlight the best of our jargon-free content. silicon.com has had a makeover. [04 Jul 2005]
Israel's Leading HMO Gets "Mainframe-Class" Performance and Reliability While Cutting TCO by 67 Percent
White Paper Clalit Health Services Group, Israel's largest health maintenance organization, put a strategic emphasis on customer service - which required healthcare providers and executives to make faster and better decisions affecting customers. [07 May 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The true information age
Comment The information given out by companies has been increasingly manipulated in the interests of executives, right up to the point where Enron, an apparently rich and profitable company, turned out to be a bankrupt shell. [12 Apr 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft, Fair Trade and justice
Comment Top Microsoft executives have talked about "playing hardball" in relation to competitors. It commissioned a survey from YouGov to find out about people's attitudes to the ethics of buying decisions. A large number are prepared to pay a bit extra... [18 Jan 2005]
Mark's Work Wearhouse Drives Profits With Realtime Point-of-Sale Information
White Paper The retailer implemented an integrated, Web-based sales reporting system that enables company executives to make better marketing decisions by quickly sensing changes in customer preferences and responding in realtime. [11 Jun 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Who wants government run like a business?
Comment Corporate executives encourage this belief, not least because it is used as a justification for huge salaries and even larger bonuses, backed by bountiful pension funds. There is no independent research to back the claim that offering rewards to... [01 Jun 2004]
Mid-Market BPM: A Single - and Cost-Effective - Version of the Truth
White Paper This paper describes Business Performance Management (BPM), which helps executives to make better decisions. That’s changed, and there has never been a better time for mid-market executives to invest in powerful, cost-effective BPM. [27 May 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Financial sector IT upturn, Basel II and web services quality
Comment Executives are optimistic about business but seem to be continuing their cautious approach to IT spending. The goal of this offering, which encompasses a diverse set of products, is "to deliver an infrastructure to help clients not only meet... [22 Mar 2004]
Israel’s Leading HMO Gets “Mainframe-Class” Performance and Reliability While Cutting TCO by 67 Percent
White Paper Clalit Health Services Group, Israel’s largest health maintenance organization, put a strategic emphasis on customer service—which required healthcare providers and executives to make faster and better decisions affecting customers. [24 Feb 2004]
The Executive Question: Offshoring
Comment In the first of a new series of articles for silicon.com, David Butler - an advisor to executives due to his understanding of the way various economies apply technology to business - explains why making tough decisions now is necessary. [03 Feb 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Instant messaging under the radar
Comment The success of a company is claimed to be a vindication of the outstanding skills of the top executives, while everyone else in a modern company has simply followed the procedures laid down by their leaders. [24 Sep 2003]
Business Objects pays $820m for rival
News Business Objects' software is targeted predominantly at business executives and managers, while Crystal Decisions' software is designed for a broader spectrum of workers. Business Objects has agreed to acquire fellow business reports software... [21 Jul 2003]
Athlon: The beginning of the end
News Atiq Raza, then AMD's chief operating officer and one of its most respected executives, abruptly left the company. The performance ceiling imposed on the Athlon XP, in part, comes down to necessary decisions on resources. [13 May 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Paranoia and the PC power paradox
Comment What is done with the profit and how it rewards executives and shareholders is far more complicated than the simplistic view of capitalism would suggest. This severely limits the choices that can be made even by senior executives of large and... [07 May 2003]
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