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Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment In 1999, four years after the collapse of Barings, Futures & Options Week editor Neil Wilson said: "It could happen again because the incentives are the same, if not greater. Experts say investment banking fraud can never be eradicated - even with... [15 Apr 2008]
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and MCIAdvantage
White Paper An enterprise has two major incentives to complement existing services or migrate to IP communications. It is the second of these incentives, increasing overall productivity, which is the focus of this paper. [10 Apr 2008]
Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance
White Paper The paper concludes that an understanding of how and when employee ownership works successfully requires a three-pronged analysis of the incentives that ownership gives, the participative mechanisms available to workers to act on those incentives... [10 Apr 2008]
Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints
White Paper Above all, reforms can improve the information and incentives of voters and creditors. Central regulations need not undermine market discipline. Indeed, they can facilitate it by promoting local revenue collection, improving information, accounting... [10 Apr 2008]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News Wipro is looking for government tax incentives, linked to the number of jobs created, to help offset the cost of setting up its UK delivery centre. Indian IT giant Wipro is set to create hundreds of new jobs in the UK by taking advantage of... [20 Mar 2008]
Green carrots needed for IT chiefs
News There needs to be greater incentives for tech departments to become greener by reducing their overall energy consumption and carbon footprint. If you want to make changes in the data centre, you need to put in incentives. [19 Mar 2008]
Consolidation and Virtualization: Business Strategy for a Successful Consolidation Implementation
White Paper For all the incentives to enterprise consolidation, there are also some powerful lines of resistance to overcome. Because many organizations don't have a centralized IT budget, Logicalis Senior Infrastructure Consultant observes, individual... [11 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment After all, there are very large incentives: to gain access to bank accounts, access to buildings and anonymous travel. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are... [28 Feb 2008]
Hillary Clinton talks tech
News As president, I will strengthen tax incentives for extending broadband to underserved areas. Iraq, immigration, taxes and health care probably have been the four most pressing topics of the 2008 US presidential campaign. [03 Jan 2008]
North-South pay gap narrows
News Employers are offering big incentives to draw IT staff away from the South East, which tends to be a magnet for technology professionals. IT wages are growing faster up North than in London but tech workers in the capital still enjoy considerably... [02 Jan 2008]
Ensuring the Security of the Global Economy
White Paper The Global Movement Management framework meets these challenges by proposing a governance structure that is distributed and decentralized, using rules, standards, and market-driven incentives to encourage investment in the security and resilience... [12 Dec 2007]
Techies - clueless on climate change?
News Only six per cent of the organisations surveyed have financial or personal incentives schemes for their ICT department to adopt environmentally friendly initiatives, although more than a fifth would like to see such a scheme. [04 Dec 2007]
Metrics and Incentives in Outsourcing: Driving Peak Performance
White Paper Metrics and incentives are an important component of outsourcing relationships, but as executives use outsourcing more strategically, these become more critical than ever. This research study, Accenture found that each type of outsourcing... [22 Nov 2007]
The A to Z of green IT
News And it's not all down to creating a warm and fuzzy feeling - governments are putting increasing pressure on businesses to bring down carbon emissions and up the environmental ante with both legislation and financial incentives. [21 Nov 2007]
Data breaches misunderstood by gov't, say Lords
News That's why our recommendations concentrated on incentives; we must ensure that everyone is motivated to improve security. Part of the government's reply addressed the recommendation there should be a data-breach notification law to provide... [01 Nov 2007]
