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Comment I have begun more rigorous costing and evaluation of development benefits. Greater visibility of development projects, evaluation and measurement of estimates, as well as very clearly stated expectations.
[25 Mar 2008]
Comment VDR technology incorporates financial and legal data, which is made available for evaluation, not for printing, guarding that access. Private equity has had a high, if mixed profile but its technology requirements are seldom discussed and reviewed.
[20 Aug 2007]
Comment It is often difficult to differentiate one from the other during the evaluation phase - so a lot of effort could be expended for little business benefit. Quocirca's Sharon Crawford explains how to decide whether to jump ship to a new vendor or stay...
[05 Feb 2007]
Comment I think customers will have the top three or four Indian companies in their evaluation set for all major orders. He has been running the business for 40 years, growing it from a $2m cooking fat company to a $1.8bn IT services organisation.
[07 Nov 2006]
Comment It is not an entirely reliable method of evaluation for various, fairly obvious reasons. Martin Brampton debunks the idea that we live in an information society - and even if we did, he says, it wouldn't provide all the benefits everyone keeps...
[20 Jun 2006]
Comment These costs need to be justified, based on the expected exposure of those assets to different forms of risk, an evaluation of how likely or unlikely the risk might be in practice, and an assessment of how much the measures can do to protect those...
[22 Jun 2005]
Comment The organisational strategy will also produce a policy for the evaluation and selection of potential partners, along with a set of internal guidelines to help you manage the relationship. If you're going to outsource a business process, you should...
[21 Mar 2005]
Comment My evaluation of VoIP is very simple: it either works or it doesn't - it is strictly binary. After a personal trial, Peter Cochrane has found VoIP makes mobile working cheaper and easier than ever. Given the technology's impending rise, can the...
[17 Feb 2005]
Comment Try this evaluation process outlined by Quocirca's Clive Longbottom. Don't want your company to get stuck with an IT vendor that will disappoint you later on? In Quocirca, we see a lot of companies sitting on technologies chosen for all the right...
[29 Nov 2004]
Comment Phil Pavitt, CIO at NTL, said: "In sensitive areas like customer service, it is now a factor in our evaluation. Articles and commentary on IT offshoring and BPO in India and elsewhere will be appearing on silicon.com during the coming weeks.
[05 Jul 2004]
Comment They renamed the sales process an 'evaluation process' and ran seminars for those prospective customers who were planning an evaluation within the next 6 months. By the time the prospective customers' evaluation started, the steps dictated by the...
[25 Jun 2004]
Comment More often than not, it is a primary reason not to offshore, although this evaluation can be viewed as an aspect of risk management, covered elsewhere in this series of articles. Central to most offshoring arrangements or, lest we forget, reasons...
[16 Jun 2004]
Comment Regulatory and operational requirements set some of these priorities but judgement and evaluation of the requirements of the business will determine where the organisation focuses its investment and effort in security and, critically, reduction in...
[31 Mar 2003]
Comment Unfortunately, under critical evaluation, all too many developments turn out to have provided only marginal benefits. But could we be teetering on the edge of something altogether much worse? Martin Brampton asks the questions.
[28 Jan 2003]
Comment But a pull-no-punches note from an analyst house has, over the past few days, demanded a re-evaluation of the business case for 3G mobile services. Should we be preparing a eulogy for 3G? If that's what you're looking for, you've come to the wrong...
[19 Aug 2002]
Comment The venture guy's job is to refine his powers of evaluation, to hone the ability to see the outline of one good idea among the thousand brought in by entrepreneurs that are too small or me-too. This week silicon.com is serialising eBoys, a fly-on...
[08 Apr 2002]
Comment After all, it seems that Britain's top companies run their IT with a similar lack of critical evaluation. Everyone knew that IT was an important part of the growth dynamic. Now, we are all in sober mood and serious questions are being asked.
[02 Oct 2001]
Comment The internet evaluation firm has tested the websites run by the main parties and judged Labour a loser in terms of availability and speed of response. He went on to found computer services company EDS, which was famously run along military lines...
[01 Jun 2001]
Comment In an attempt to minimise the problems caused by global email viruses, DERA - the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency - has come up with a simple but effective approach to combating these attacks.
[30 Apr 2001]
Comment What's happening is that people with a lot of money who haven't really analysed businesses are listening to ideas, thinking they're cool, getting excited with entrepreneurs and giving them the obscene evaluation that triggered the feeding frenzy...
[13 Jun 2000]
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