executives in recent years
Boardroom Despatches: Making your spike spikier
Comment Generations of executives must be given credit for seeing the upcoming areas of demand, for claiming first mover advantage in some instances. Of course other executives don't usually see it like that. [13 Jul 2005]
Businesses prefer leasing to loans when buying IT
News Companies are turning their back on standard bank credit because lenders have been tightening their credit policies in recent years, and are instead turning to leasing, according to a survey of European finance executives by Siemens Financial... [06 Jul 2005]
Who Benefits From a Bull Market?: An Analysis of Employee Stock Option Grants and Stock Prices
White Paper Grants of employee stock options have risen dramatically in recent years to both top executives and employees below the senior ranks. This paper examines the growth in stock option grants at S&P 1500 companies from 1996-1999, and estimates the pay... [28 Jun 2005]
CIO Jury: Have IT bosses lost control?
News Tougher regulatory requirements have also had an impact in forcing the business executives to take IT more seriously, according to Graham Yellowley, Mitsubishi Securities International. The big-spending years of Y2K and the dot-com boom have taken... [08 Jun 2005]
One in five outsourcing deals are terminated
News Executives have become more realistic in their expectations and are now more likely to implement outsourcing initiatives incrementally. Despite some high-visibility setbacks and backlash from politicians and the public, corporate IT executives say... [01 Jun 2005]
Flexible working will wipe out middle managers
News But the Microsoft-sponsored research predicts that the changing nature of work can give IT executives a chance to boost their role, since management change must go hand-in-hand with technology change. [24 May 2005]
Microsoft wines and dines Red Hat
News The chief executives of Microsoft and Red Hat have held a private meeting in New York - an indication that relations between the rivals might be warming. In some cases, executives have called it "Pac-Man-like" and a "cancer". [11 May 2005]
CIOs lose sleep over security, not revenue
News There's never been more pressure on executives [and] that can be both good and bad for our industry," he said. You can't predict what will be your major application in three to four years [but] you can project when your CEO wants to move, you need... [04 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]
Leader: Why e-government isn't working
Leader But the good news is that while the e-government agenda hasn't delivered this so far, executives across the public sector have started to realise what is needed over the next few years. Despite the huge amounts spent on government IT - and the... [06 Apr 2005]
Dell creates 300 more jobs in India
News Company executives also have said Dell invested in more training for its India staff. Executives say its India service also has improved. But Dell has experienced growing pains in the recent past, causing some customers to criticise its service and... [18 Mar 2005]
Microsoft gets its business together
News The company is also filling out the unit's management ranks with the recent hiring of former executives from PeopleSoft and rival Best Software, she said. During its most recent fiscal quarter, Microsoft reported flat revenue in its Business... [08 Mar 2005]
SME Philes: Who do you trust?
Comment A recent survey of SME executives shows the vendor community has a lot to learn about becoming a trusted source of IT buying advice. Local consultants were chosen as the most trusted source for buying information by 41.50 per cent of business... [22 Feb 2005]
Napster hack opens up music
News Record label executives nevertheless said privately that they were worried at the attention the technique was getting. Napster has made headlines in recent weeks for kicking off its "Napster To Go" programme, which allows people to move songs... [16 Feb 2005]
3GSM Diary: Social responsibility, killer apps and a giant toaster
Comment And like that ensemble piece, Nortel executives could be seen and heard saying how the company is now all about making the world a better place and "holding ourselves to a slightly higher standard than we did before". [16 Feb 2005]
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