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Brunel University's Business Class: How to put people first
Comment A recent survey here at Brunel revealed the lack of strategic thought invested in the IT department’s most valuable asset, its people. If asked about their approach to staff management, few companies would readily admit to seeing their own... [22 Oct 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: The mid-market, Oracle and CGEY and managing your brand
Comment Defining the all-important mid-market, Oracle partnering with Cap Gem Ernst and Young and brand asset management - these are the three subjects that get the treatment this week from Robin Bloor and his team of analysts… [15 Jun 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Who’ll do the dirty work?
Comment In a well run commercial company, costly projects are decided by reference to some quite simple financial principles, known collectively as the capital asset allocation problem. Now we have a clear indication from the son of Railtrack that even a... [10 Feb 2003]
The Director's Cut: Your priceless helpdesk
Comment The helpdesk team is an essential asset and must be viewed as such. Excellent leadership and management are absolutely vital. The immediate helpdesk management must be committed, imaginative and - wait for it - visible. [23 Oct 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: New HP, Cisco buying again and thin clients are here
Comment With 1,500 employees, the company will provide leasing, trade-ins, sales of refurbished equipment, asset management and recovery services. Andiamo's products boast of support for several protocols, including Fiber Channel, iSCSI and FCIP while the... [27 Aug 2002]
Devil's Advocate: How to make technology work
Comment The UK rail network is to get an asset management system to improve train safety. An asset register might be the solution to this problem. Might I be safer on this route if Network Rail, the successor to Railtrack, spends a lot of money to... [20 Aug 2002]
Skills Survey 2002: You're in IT - should you do an MBA?
Comment Paul Taylor, business development director at Parity Training, an IT staffing specialist, told silicon.com business skills are a useful asset. Indeed, Cranfield recognises MBAs are now seen as a prerequisite to most senior management positions and... [25 Mar 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Criminal licensing, dot-com job trends and government IT winners
Comment Indeed, such asset management technologies enable organisations to manage all IT assets effectively, especially licences, reducing the lifetime costs associated with running all computing devices. Asset management is rightly placed at the heart of... [18 Mar 2002]
Why Fsharp fell flat
Comment The BOI spin-off aimed to offer banking, currency conversion, credit cards and other services, via tie-ups with companies like Merrill Lynch's Mercury Asset Management (for fund management) and KPMG (for tax advice). [22 Oct 2001]
Model Management: More market madness?
Comment But just as the improbable rise in asset values led to unreasonable and unjustifiable paper riches being created, so the opposite reaction causes excessive damage on the way down. FTdynamo features writing and research from leading business schools... [24 Apr 2001]
Teaching a new dog Bill's old tricks
Comment In the current market, BT is thought to believe that this floatation would actually destroy shareholder value, as it would involve selling off an asset below its true worth. Oh yes, that showed us: running away from shareholders who've been armed... [23 Mar 2001]
Ebusiness Despatches: René Carayol on the future stars of the e-world
Comment And that might be a priceless asset in any organisation. Low turnover used to be a signal of a stable culture and wise management. The old management/employee deal - you work for me and I'll manage your career - is of no interest to the new arrivals. [10 Jan 2001]
Multimedia contact centres: The future of CRM?
Comment The truth is that the internet will make the call centre even more of a strategic asset to leading businesses than it is today. It is likely to use a mixture of email management, web self-service and web-based live agent help to provide a similar... [12 Sep 2000]
The Value Proposition: The Economics of Application Service Provision
Comment The 69 per cent of your IT budget that is the upgrade, maintenance and life-cycle support costs is effectively the asset rot that your customers have to pay for in the inflated cost of goods. In an age of skill shortages and escalating IT support... [06 Sep 2000]
The Value Proposition: IT and the utopian fallacy
Comment Traditionally, banks calculated the asset value of a company based on all the dead things like plant, machinery, company cars and buildings. EVA is a real figure representing the returns that good management, ideas, efficient systems, and so on... [05 Apr 2000]
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