culture in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Our education is poor, as is our management culture, our marketing sucks as does our regulatory and tax systems and our economy simply can't support entrepreneurship. That and the superior economy, tax breaks, education... [06 Nov 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment After all, this is a rivalry stretching back decades, a fundamental dichotomy that underpins the industry and its culture - what more is there to add? Are Microsoft and Apple about to lock horns yet again, this time in... [01 Oct 2009]
India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit
Comment Globalisation and the outsourcing industry in particular have brought rapid and enormous changes in the culture of India cities such as Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. The cheery, chatty voice at the other end of your... [25 Aug 2009]
How to keep staff happy during the downturn
Comment Staff do not respond most to increased competition or benefits but rather to manager quality, organisational culture and day-to-day work environment, as seen in the graphic below. In tough economic times, businesses must... [10 Aug 2009]
Big isn't always better: Beware of growing up too fast
Comment How you establish business processes that support great culture can make a difference. I would maintain that it's when management loses sight of what their changes do to the organisational culture that... [29 Jul 2009]
Social computing - start small, think big
Comment As they infect others, so the culture will shift as a result. Don't be afraid of social networking and blogs in the office, says Freeform Dynamics's David Tebbutt. Here's how you can make them work for you. [28 Apr 2009]
Mobile operators: It's time to get personal
Comment The idea of 'service centricity', with a focus on the product or offering, is deeply ingrained in this 'utility' culture. Freeform Dynamics analyst Josie Sephton looks at how CRM could help. Mobile operators are all too... [31 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Want to beat the economy?
Comment Overtly flags a progressive state of mind and culture Here we are in an ever-complex world, driven by technology and accelerating change, with those at the head of the game hanging on by their fingernails. [26 Feb 2009]
How tech is making FCO 'more foreign, less office'
Comment Most Plcs are dealing with a 50-year-old culture when it comes to things they want to change," he explains. In the FCO's case, there is some 200 years of culture to consider. The Foreign and Commonwealth... [04 Feb 2009]
Why your business should embrace web 2.0
Comment In 2003, Zuboff and husband Jim Maxmin published a new book, The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, which argued that the potential of information technology failed because of... [22 Jan 2009]
Virgin Atlantic's IT director on budget cuts and having fun
Comment They are very different companies: Virgin is probably about a fifth of the size of British Airways and it's much younger and has a different culture. A fun culture it may be but the tech team is serious... [20 Jan 2009]
Do we really need more women in IT?
Comment Of course the problem of having a male-oriented culture that discourages women is by no means an IT-only issue. There are less heavy-handed ways of helping IT's culture to evolve. More females at the top... [01 Dec 2008]
Naked CIO: Bring down IT salaries
Comment Over the last couple of months as budgets have tightened and questions of efficiency have been raised throughout the business world, I've wondered if the last decade of rising IT salaries is hurting not only businesses but also the... [24 Nov 2008]
No pink slips in Bangalore - yet
Comment Although not entirely unknown, pink slips are still alien to India's culture where white-collar jobs are expected to come with a lifetime guarantee. But at least for now, the workers who drive the technology boom that so... [28 Oct 2008]
"There's no credit crunch in Second Life"
Comment Second Life launched with a real fanfare of hype too and has now cemented its place as a significant part of popular culture. The hype surrounding virtual worlds a year ago appears to have died down in recent months but... [23 Oct 2008]
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