admin in comment and analysis
Unwired: Prepare for the next generation
Comment This trend is well established - a modern sales person sells, while a CRM package shoulders much of the admin burden; most research today is powered by Google, rather than hours in a library; scientists and mathematicians use PC computing power... [10 Oct 2006]
Behind the scenes at England's World Cup HQ
Comment A VPN connection back to The FA's servers in London allows the admin team to log on and check their emails. Dimmock says: "The main concern is the admin team. As long as the admin team is fine everything runs like clockwork. [15 Jun 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Metrics overload
Comment Admin really ought to be less than 10 per cent and not 80 per cent of the budget. Written in Washington DC National Airport and despatched via a public wi-fi service in partnership with my UK ISP Over the past few years I have been working in... [02 May 2006]
Minority Report: Mac OS X virus scares
Comment If the admin password is provided then the Leap.A code then attempts to install itself into an application. It's at the point that an admin password is requested that alarm bells should be ringing for the majority of users - any responsible user... [03 Mar 2006]
Ted Woodhouse
Q&A Implementing a new £3m patient admin system in 9 months on time and within budget. Name: Ted Woodhouse. Employer and official job title: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, director of IT strategy. What do most people call you? [28 Jun 2005]
The Minority Report: The state of Mac OS X security
Comment According to an alert posted on the Full Disclosure mailing lists, an attacker could write a malicious widget that would run invisibly in the background and hijack a user's sudo (or admin) privileges. [03 Jun 2005]
Leader: Dell wants blade runners
Leader Patching and maintaining servers takes up an inordinate amount of admin time. A lot of users still don't consider Dell an enterprise player the way they do at least three of the Round Rock company's main competitors. [16 Nov 2004]
Inside SAS: Fact file
Comment Greyson Quarles, executive vice president and chief admin officer Read Will Sturgeon's inside look at SAS in our vendor dossier. Key financials (annual revenue): bn bn bn bn bn Key claim: consecutive years of profit and revenue growth [02 Nov 2004]
Leader: Don't blame your staff - train them
Leader The course is aimed at office juniors who are a bit too friendly with peer-to-peer networks, admin staff that are a bit too ready to open suspicious attachments - you get the idea. When it comes to protecting your corporate network from security... [20 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.03.04
Round-Up The Round-Up can imagine Des Browne breaking this news to admin staff. Hello you lucky, lucky people. Now the Round-Up is speaking to those of you who work in the UK (don't worry US readers, we'll come back to you later) because it turns out those... [19 Mar 2004]
Can the beige box ever be a green box?
Comment When the time comes to scrap your PC, whose responsibility is it to dispose of it safely? Why not dump it in a skip? At least then the buck is passed to the local council or contractor who collects the skip. [23 Apr 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Nanotech, ID theft and whether to issue an RFP
Comment To my mind, the greatest risk is that back end systems holding more information about me than I care to think about get exposed because some admin person was in a hurry or just plain too busy. They are probably right but it won't happen tomorrow. [14 Apr 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Cochrane's Law
Comment If 10 people start a new company with a single administrator, it is clear that admin is there to support the nine in the creation of the company, finding customers, realising orders and achieving profitability. [21 Nov 2002]
What if... we didn't have modern communications and IT?
Comment The solicitor then wrote a letter to the builder requesting permission on our behalf, the builder wrote a letter back saying it needed an admin fee, the solicitor wrote a letter to us asking for a cheque (forget credit card payments over the phone... [12 Jun 2002]
What if... teachers were replaced by computers?
Comment It's not just about helping teachers with the admin burden. We have a shortage of teachers in the UK but in what way is technology the answer? Our very own Mr Hypothetical, Dale Vile, has been doing some fieldwork. [29 Jan 2002]
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