Foster Partners
Collaboration to innovation: Leveraging Web 2.0 to Accelerate New Service Ideas
White Paper This solution helps foster a collaborative community of employees, business partners, software developers and subscribers to address the challenges facing telecoms. This white paper is intended to... [27 Oct 2009]
Enable innovation with collaboration, without boundaries
White Paper To foster innovation, it's important to create collaboration communities of employees, as well as customers and partners "outside the firewall. In today's competitive environment, sharing information and... [26 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment In the fast-moving, globally networked era, the most successful players will be those best able to foster an entrepreneurial spirit among staff and manage a multitude of long-term and ad hoc relationships with suppliers,... [13 Oct 2009]
Interoperability and Architecture for the Life Sciences Industry: What It Will Take to Gain Industry Consensus on Interchange Standards, and What Organizations Can Do Today to Optimize Their Own
White Paper It must foster knowledge-sharing among scientists, information specialists, healthcare professionals and consumers. Information must flow seamlessly across the organization, between business partners and... [16 Sep 2009]
Tech skills and grads, and when architecture meets IT
News This month also saw silicon.com catching up with Graham Young, head of IT at Foster + Partners, the architects behind some of London's best loved modern buildings including the Gherkin. This month saw... [21 Dec 2008]
Graham Young
CIO Profile Graham Young joined architect Foster + Partners in June 2007 and has 40 years experience in the field of design engineering, working in a variety of roles across various industry sectors. Prior to... [11 Jun 2008]
Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue
News Microsoft said the Open Source Interoperability Initiative will foster a better working relationship with open-source projects, and will provide technical assistance, such as interoperability testing. [22 Feb 2008]
Microsoft Case Study: Partners HealthCare
White Paper Its mission is to train physicians; foster research in the methods and tools of healthcare delivery; and provide healthcare to the local community and to patients anywhere who are in need of its unique expertise. [31 Aug 2007]
Microsoft's 'new JPEG' to get standards vote
News The organisation said: "Microsoft's royalty-free commitment will help the JPEG committee foster widespread adoption of the specification and help ensure that it can be implemented by the widest possible audience,"... [01 Aug 2007]
Microsoft CFO quits
News Connors said the move will allow him to spend more time with his family, as well as to help foster new businesses in the Seattle area. The company said that the 16-year Microsoft veteran would become a partner at... [12 Jan 2005]
The Director’s Cut: This is how you work together properly
Comment In my view there are three ways above all others to foster a spirit of unstoppable teams. In times of apparent uncertainty we must form trusted relationships with external partners around a shared... [30 Jul 2003]
IBM bids $2.1bn for Rational
News Bringing Rational into the IBM fold will also give more momentum to IBM's open-source Eclipse project, which aims to foster interoperability among different Java-oriented tools, analysts said. IBM and Rational have been... [09 Dec 2002]
Novell makes shock profit
News The company's CEO Ron Foster warned that a continued weakening in IT services consulting would contribute to lower revenues in the second quarter. The purchase of Cambridge Technology Partners last... [01 Mar 2002]
Balfour Beatty constructs 'realistic' ebusiness strategy
News David Foster, CEO of Burns, explained his company is targeting customers who are "looking to address pain points with relatively easy-to-implement solutions rather than grand e-marketplaces". This follows the company's... [14 Feb 2002]
E-tailers to get strict code of practice
News An industry-led initiative designed to foster online shoppers' confidence in ecommerce is to be launched today. The government-backed project aims to foster consumer trust in ecommerce by ensuring any... [15 Feb 2000]