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Peter Cochrane's Blog: My productivity has peaked
Comment Before the explosion of ICT, I used all manner of techniques to minimise paper, cut back on duplication and improve my overall efficiency and effectiveness. Written on the Ipswich to London train and... [27 Nov 2006]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment The C2C CC is rising to the challenge set by an EC eSafety programme that is seeking to reduce road fatalities by 50 per cent by 2010 and to further improve the efficiency of road traffic. These measures... [21 Jun 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Drop those bad habits
Comment Getting a handle on all aspects of IT operations - and employing certain efficiency boosting technologies - can quickly lead to savings and greater productivity, says Quocirca's Elaine Axby. So what can be done to... [13 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.05.06
Round-Up And thus Microsoft is reintroducing the towel scheme along with a host of other staff benefits as part of the MyMicrosoft programme - though it appears that spaces between letters are the latest victim of a new... [26 May 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Gov't IT - get it right
Comment But other problems - such as introducing mobility to improve service efficiency, or the need to reuse previous investment - are not unique to government and should not be that difficult to solve. The... [01 Dec 2005]
Radioactive: Mobile phones - the battery conundrum
Comment However recent technological improvements have seen their power density grow dramatically and their efficiency improve to acceptable levels. DMFCs were originally developed in the early 1990s but... [09 Nov 2005]
Leader: A helpful push towards efficiency
Leader There has been much grumbling and rolling of eyes from people in local authorities tasked with squeezing more cost out of their systems as a result of the government's efficiency targets. It is very easy to put off... [07 Sep 2005]
Leader: Don't let compliance blues drag you down
Leader Maybe with a little added twist the technology being implemented for compliance can help the business in another way, such as improving the customer experience or boosting efficiency. Red tape has always been an... [29 Jul 2005]
Call centres lag behind on IP adoption
Comment Typically technology in call centres is acquired to improve the efficiency of the operations. Call centres would seem to be the ideal place for next-generation phone systems. So, asks Anthony Plewes, why... [01 Feb 2005]
Before you roll out RFID... read this
Comment There are many reasons to use RFID in the retail sector, including tracking goods to improve supply chain efficiency and increasing the visibility of inventory. RFID technology could make your business... [20 Jan 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Easy mobile minutes, corporate compliance and Google's IPO
Comment And technology is being purchased to help companies manage risk, not just to improve the efficiency of their organisations. This particular issue has led the US to pass its Sarbanes-Oxley law, forcing... [10 May 2004]
Analysis: NAS and SAN uniting
Comment EMC, IBM and less well-known storage specialists such as BlueArc are beginning to mix and match the best elements of network-attached storage (NAS) devices and storage area networks (SAN) to improve the... [26 Jan 2004]
Your flexible friend: Can you put a price on happiness?
Comment Fortunately for those afflicted with this timeless conundrum, a more structured, less fluffy method for assessing ROI is emerging, due partly to pressure on enterprise property management departments to increase efficiency. [29 Oct 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Net sales figures, Six Sigma and videoconferencing
Comment Think of the impact on operational efficiency and risk. But it so happens that a few resourceful CIOs are applying Six Sigma methods to the functioning of their IT departments to improve their company's... [08 Sep 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: Motivating and rewarding
Comment In any job this is important but in IT the effects of de-motivated staff are especially noticeable not just because many IT projects are staffed by contractors but also because there’s so much at stake: how IT systems are set up and... [13 Aug 2003]
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