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Microsoft and SAP scared Oracle into attempted acquisition
News The companies abandoned the talks after several meetings in which the two CEOs disagreed about who would run the combined company, Ellison said. Increasing competitive pressure from SAP and the entry of Microsoft into the business applications... [01 Jul 2004]
Leader: The misguided desire to grow, grow, grow
Leader And don't allow shareholders to control CEOs and pressure them into pursuing markets they wouldn't otherwise go after. Sometimes it's pressure from the board and shareholders to raise share value and make them all a little richer. [18 Jun 2004]
High Availability Ethernet Networks
White Paper This pressure is coming both from CFOs and CEOs as well as from customers and clients. The pressure is on most CIOs and CTOs to re-engineer their existing legacy systems and networks into higher availability more tightly integrated units while at... [20 Apr 2004]
CIOs on the way out?
News He said CEOs are under more pressure than ever to justify large sums spent on IT to shareholders and City analysts and that the financial director or CFO is likely to resist major changes to a firm's infrastructure that involve large budgets. [03 Sep 2003]
Scrutiny will make outsourcing more robust
Comment Traditionally CEOs serve for no more than a few years and while a deal agreed on the golf course to save hundreds of millions of pounds by farming off the IT function to someone else may look good on the books, if that is the sole reason you can... [22 Aug 2003]
Shareholder militancy puts IT outsourcing under microscope
News Morgan said investors are starting to realise that while IT outsourcing usually leads to cost savings, it is also predominantly an irreversible organisational and cultural change that cannot just be made in 'golf course' deals between CEOs. [20 Aug 2003]
CEO turnover at telcos the highest globally
News Almost one in 10 CEOs at telecoms service providers were last year forced out of their jobs, the highest figure across all sectors. Those are two of the findings to come out of research by Booz Allen Hamilton, which paints a picture of increasingly... [13 May 2003]
Tech marketers feel 'pressure to measure', says IDC
News In a presentation on Tuesday IDC said a recent survey of tech companies found that CEOs and chief financial officers are giving marketing departments a "measurement mandate" to assess their return on investment. [09 Apr 2003]
Ebusiness Despatches: The death of the tech CEO
Comment And how many tech CEOs have been peddling snake oil? The problem is that many tech CEOs built or shored up their reputations during the last boom. A recent Economist cover story was called 'Fallen idols: The overthrow of celebrity CEOs'. [15 May 2002]
IT budgets under pressure as CIOs lose control
News He said: "IT remains strategically critical which is why CEOs and CFOs make the decision at board level. IT spend is continuing to fall in European companies as the recession hits home, with CIOs finding themselves outgunned by business managers... [11 Feb 2002]
Model Management: Vive l'exception francaise!
Comment If they had ever forgotten the fact, business leaders need to remember that they operate under licence in democracies, and that democratically elected politicians have their own customers to worry about, just as the CEOs do. [01 May 2001]
Model Management: trouble at the top
Comment Whichever way you look at it, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that a lot of CEOs are being rewarded - and handsomely - for failure. Separate research by the Center for Executive Options - a division of the Boston-based consultancy Drake Beam... [11 Dec 2000]
Get the message, don't take one
Comment And while IT increases productivity, it also increases the pressure to perform, so managers end up working harder, they say. These findings, from a Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) poll, point to a worrying divide between old... [27 Sep 2000]
