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Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment Any retailers that think they can treat their internet services and stores as separate entities, with different pricing models, are ignoring some important facts of modern retailing life. The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending... [13 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Locked in at the bank
Comment To be blunt, more global internet banking entities are required to invoke significant change in the old institutions and bring them into line with the rest of 21st century humanity. Written in a coffee shop at Wickham Market, Suffolk, and... [07 Feb 2008]
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment Both Invirtus and Vizioncore continue to exist as separate entities. This summer's intense activity in virtualisation could shape the options for smaller businesses as well as for data centres. Quocirca's Dennis Szubert picks out the main... [05 Sep 2007]
Network horror stories expose need for understanding
Comment As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. Here Will Sturgeon exposes just how wrong it can go and asks leading industry figures to light the way towards effective... [12 Apr 2007]
Leader: Listen to SMEs
Leader Despite the fact small businesses account for the majority of corporate entities, they are considered a niche by most IT vendors because their needs and methods of procuring IT are so different from the big businesses most vendors cater to. [20 Jul 2006]
Leader: Private equity, Germany and badging RFID
Leader Others point out their inclination to break up fairly large entities, making the future sum of the parts total more than the current value of the whole - an often lumbering whole at the point they come in. [14 Nov 2005]
Leader: Appeal to CIOs' business sense
Leader Of course, RFID had a little help, with entities such as Wal-Mart demanding their suppliers get involved - but Wal-Mart's CIO didn't have such a mandate to help him make up his mind. Grid. Linux. RFID. [28 Apr 2005]
The Director’s Cut: This is how you work together properly
Comment Of course you are at work for your 'organisation', and for your 'department' but those are entities without personality. Great stuff, I hear you shout, but how? External collaboration I have long written about powerful ways to build rapport and... [30 Jul 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Trusting people and self-organisation
Comment They are just autonomous entities making decisions a metre or so ahead with no need of a grand plan or sight of the whole floor. There are many ways to try to organise business and society. But Peter Cochrane isn't a fan of too much organisation... [17 Jul 2003]
Peter Cochrane’s Uncommon Sense: Nature and engineering
Comment Only now we also have the ability to modify the bottom up approach, by building an atom at a time using nanotechnology and by adjusting the gene structure of biological entities and thereby the direction of evolution. [03 Jul 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Procurement outsourcing, ROI and the PS2 grid
Comment Doubtless, the functions are handled by distinct and separate entities or organisational units within the outsourcer enterprise but the perception must prevail that they will favour their own and use their combined power to obtain the best deal. [17 Mar 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Taking risks
Comment Yet, because it is structured as a number of individual entities, it seems that Fujitsu Services was in danger of falling into the hands of the liquidators. Giant companies are nearly always broken up into a number of separate corporate entities. [03 Mar 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: ButterflyWings.com
Comment It turns out to be a fundamental result of a chaotic system that sees intelligent entities making independent decisions based on the actions of others. Chaos theory is a phrase bandied around all too often. [25 Jul 2002]
Amazon cautious, and rightly so
Comment Yet while the UK and German sites work towards reducing losses the French and Japanese entities are still heavily subsidised as they try to attract consumers. Considering the current economic uncertainty Amazon's achievement seems all the more... [26 Apr 2001]
The rise of ecommerce and the return of the old order
Comment Certainly more and more dot-corps are spinning off their ebusiness concerns into separate legal entities. The dot-corps have shrugged off their hesitation about ebusiness and are going online to reach customers and streamline their business... [08 Sep 2000]
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