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Comment In the end efficiency and effectiveness must trump control as a rationale for implementing processes for IT functions. They're wrong, says the Naked CIO. Proper process can give organisations an edge.
[12 May 2008]
Comment Businesses enable remote working because they expect it to improve efficiency, increase customer and employee satisfaction and keep down costs. Demand on corporate networks for distributed services these days goes well beyond the usual IT tasks.
[24 Apr 2008]
Comment Tech budgets will remain flat or fall in 2008 for most organisations as they focus on cost cutting and efficiency initiatives, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda 2008 survey. The main business priorities driving IT spend in 2008 are...
[18 Apr 2008]
Comment Pool software developers and save money, or disperse them to business units and improve efficiency? That's the stark choice CIOs have struggled with for years. But McKinsey's Diogo Rau has an alternative approach.
[09 Apr 2008]
Comment Yet I believe passionately that outsourcing and offshoring can neither save money nor improve efficiency. Never outsource a problem - it does little to solve efficiency. Is our embattled hero right to take a stand on the issue or should he meekly...
[10 Mar 2008]
Comment So it's in many ways fulfilling the promise of the internet by creating efficiency and allowing anybody to participate in the global economy no matter where they are or where they live. Online business network, LinkedIn has almost 20 million...
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment Many an executive has assessed IT departmental efficiency based on whether or not they are receiving emails on their BlackBerry. Addicts may take their CrackBerrys on holiday and even up to bed. But there's nothing wrong with the core technology...
[21 Feb 2008]
Comment Research conducted by the Cranfield School of Management for Tiscali found almost half (46 per cent) of SMEs surveyed feel the internet has raised the complexity of running a business and just 16 per cent believe it has increased operational...
[21 Feb 2008]
Comment Nomenclature aside, IT components all the way up to the functions used by business users have to offer visibility, precision, timeliness, speed, repeatability and efficiency. Systems management is at a dead end.
[13 Feb 2008]
Comment Finally, electronification could increase efficiency and lower trading costs, particularly for small and odd-lot transactions. Meanwhile, end investors are unlikely to see advances in price and market efficiency.
[30 Jan 2008]
Comment The problem many companies have right now is how to engage their employees in some form of social networking that improves their efficiency at work and offers a higher level of security than that of the social networks on the internet.
[24 Jan 2008]
Comment Whether those are customers, property, products or any other asset, knowing their location is usually essential for improving operational efficiency and gaining competitive advantage. Despite the broad reach of the internet, successful online...
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment One way of surmounting that problem is to ensure an IT department's processes are configured for efficiency and for consistency when it comes to customer service, says Everson. For some IT directors, getting the trust and respect they feel they...
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment To search out even more technologies and applications to push the envelope of creativity and efficiency. Written on the M4 motorway in England as I was driven from Taunton to Ipswich. Dispatched via a commercial wi-fi service from a roadside café
[03 Jan 2008]
Comment Computing may drive efficiency but the data centres that run business are often far from efficient. This has been assessed, at current typical utilisation and efficiency levels, to produce 5,540 tonnes of CO2 per annum at a cost of £1.159m for the...
[21 Dec 2007]
Comment If you look at the whole concept of consolidation, this is something we think, that government can actually consolidate its IT and get a better result in terms of efficiency but also of the new green agenda and climate change.
[05 Dec 2007]
Comment It is about efficiency, says Stewart Baines. The increased awareness of green issues is simply accelerating improvements in efficiency that any responsible CIO should have been implementing in the near future anyway," says Craig-Wood.
[03 Dec 2007]
Comment The heated water can then be used via high efficiency heat transfer systems to provide warm water to other parts of the organisation. Quocirca's Clive Longbottom says inefficient cooling systems repay close examination.
[14 Nov 2007]
Comment User-generated content, online collaboration and diverse forms of community interaction have implications for political engagement, policy development, service delivery and operational efficiency. Eric Woods thinks the public sector needs to grasp...
[11 Oct 2007]
Comment Atlanta-based Invirtus is perhaps best known for its VM Optimizer technology which automatically reduces virtual machines to the smallest size possible and optimises them for speed and efficiency. This summer's intense activity in virtualisation...
[05 Sep 2007]
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