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The Weekly Round-Up: 05.05.06
Round-Up Though hopefully the server didn't contain the chief exec's Fleetwood Mac collection or heads will roll. Britain's National Health Service faces a number of well documented problems on a daily basis - from MRSA super-bugs to staff shortages. [05 May 2006]
Q&A: SAP CEO Henning Kagermann
Comment A lot can happen in six years. Ask Henning Kagermann, chief executive of SAP, the world's largest enterprise applications maker. Kagermann, who has served as SAP's CEO for the past six years and has been a member of the company's executive board... [18 Apr 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.03.06
Round-Up 'Doing a Ratner' has become a stock business term, describing the moment when a high-powered exec shoots himself in the foot and occasionally manages to take his company down with him. Moving on, though only to another example of how the words of a... [03 Mar 2006]
Leader: When context gets lost in the post
Leader On this occasion F-Secure faced some criticism for scaremongering when really all it did was share some fairly anecdotal virus gossip on a messageboard which is just as likely to include comments about the quality of conference food, according to... [24 Feb 2006]
Leader: Nokia - PC maker?
Leader There's the keyboard issue too - jog wheels are all very nice but as any mobile exec will tell you, hell on the thumb. Same old stuff, different day? Well, not quite. These handsets are different. Long gone are the days when Nokia did 'phones'. [03 Nov 2005]
Leader: Too old for IT
Leader Recently a top exec at a big IT services company explained to silicon.com how to deliver a successful IT project. His advice: use more old people. Most mistakes are made by younger staff, he said, whereas the old grey hairs have seen it all before... [24 Oct 2005]
John Hodgson
AS Profile One of only two individuals in the list for whom silicon is bread and butter - see Intel's Otellini two places higher - Hodgson is a well-travelled exec whose CV reads like a who's who of the semiconductor industry. [23 Sep 2005]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile But the overall image our panel and other pundits seem to have is of a seasoned exec who has taken one of the internet's biggest success stories to another level. We'll see if his company can hit all its goals and whether Schmidt, the anti... [23 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.09.05
Round-Up The Oracle boss and long time redeemer of dull tech exec stereotypes was counting out the cash that would allow him to buy CRM dinosaur Siebel. or a Coca-Cola exec if they can recommend anything for sensitive teeth. [16 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.09.05
Round-Up The reason for Ballmer's considerable ire was Microsoft exec Mark Lucovsky, who announced in November 2004 his plans to leave the Seattle-area software firm. Now, this has all come to light during a legal dispute involving another Microsoft exec... [09 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.07.05
Round-Up It seems even Microsoft is willing to ride the latest wave of Harry Potter-mania, with Kevin Schofield, an exec within the software giant, claiming that learning to be a techie can be just as exciting as learning how to cast spells in a fictional... [22 Jul 2005]
Leader: Honour at the top
Leader On the other hand, this week began we were also told Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher - a man brought in largely as a trusted old-school exec to steady a rocking ship - had been let go for a relationship with a female member of staff. [08 Mar 2005]
Leader: RFID - not if, but when
Leader One BT exec told silicon.com that while the technological possibilities for the use of RFID - for example, shopping trolleys that advise you on purchases - are vast, the average consumer is still "spooked" by the tracking tags and that's what... [25 Feb 2005]
Leader: Orange vs orange - the juicy details
Leader It is interested in higher-value, less fickle customers who it says shouldn’t subsidise budget users, at least that's to paraphrase the stance of T-Mobile chief exec René Obermann. Two well-known brands rowing over a colour - it's juicy stuff, if... [23 Feb 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.01.05
Round-Up Once they'd finished dissing Rollins, a mild-mannered exec not known for baiting the opposition like an Ellison, a McNealy or even like that founder/chairman chap in the office next door, they turned their anger on the 12 members of this week's... [21 Jan 2005]
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