account managers in comment and analysis
Back to reality for Bangalore
Comment The banking, financial services and insurance sectors account for 40 per cent of revenues for India's $52bn outsourcing industry (as of 2007-2008). A Bangalore-based headhunter whose job used to be hunting down and... [30 Sep 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment They account for between one and three per cent of an organisation's total revenue, according to industry estimates. First, the management of the printing environment is often split between IT, procurement, facilities,... [22 Apr 2008]
IT must be called to account over emissions
Comment Nowhere is this apparent break-down in communications between the corporate board and IT management more evident than in the data centre, where 55 per cent of managers did not even know how much the data centre... [07 Apr 2008]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment Do you have a Facebook account? When someone sends you an invitation to connect, if you hit [that] button, we will restrict the person's account. If you put those search terms in you're going to find... [28 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment They want us to shut down the causes of illegal immigration and hold newcomers to account, deporting rule breakers where necessary. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this... [17 Jan 2008]
How do you get your head around 'risk'?
Comment It should give rise to control decisions that are proportionate to the value at risk and lastly, it needs to take account of the business need for the assets, making sure that they are available to the people who need... [06 Jul 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Wary of wikis? Cynical about Second Life?
Comment Find out how many have posted a clip to YouTube, or have a Second Life avatar or a MySpace account. I know several busy managers who have as much contact with their staff through their Facebook page as... [14 Jun 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: An overlooked way to save money
Comment Support costs account for the remaining 50 per cent of the cost of printing, with an estimated 20 per cent of all calls to IT helpdesks being printer related. Now that the printing and copier technologies are converging... [13 Jul 2006]
Will Zopa's P2P loans mean the death of the bank manager?
Comment I don't have a PayPal account (maybe if I was an eBay fan I would), and so the latter option took me three days. Put simply, it is a web-based borrowing and lending exchange that is seeking to do to bank... [18 Apr 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Gov't IT - get it right
Comment These should be specific, measurable and targeted to the local situation or central government policy delivery, and should take into account what the customer wants. So what should government IT professionals and... [01 Dec 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Outsourcing lessons
Comment Smaller buyers need to take account of this principle too. Managers may be tempted by the philosophy that nobody ever got fired for buying from so and so. Outsourcing has come a long way since the first... [13 Sep 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Public sector goes mobile
Comment Cost assessment needs to take account of both upfront and ongoing costs, and needs a good understanding of the utilisation of the service being proposed. Quocirca research carried out at the beginning of 2005 showed that... [09 Sep 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The beauty and bother of mobile email
Comment The various mobile email solutions might be getting easier and cheaper to deploy but there are other considerations to take into account which have particular impact on IT departments. Quocirca research has found that... [12 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Biometrics offer false hope
Comment For many years, we were impressed with the solidity of the banks, mainly on account of their grand buildings and the imperious looks of the managers. Banks may talk of using biometrics but doing so would... [03 May 2005]
How to make sure projects don't go down in flames
Comment Staff, time and wages are the main costs but project managers sometimes need to take more unusual costs into account, such as exchange rate fluctuations. A 2004 survey by the American Productivity and... [04 Apr 2005]
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