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The Naked CIO: Animal farm

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.

Tags: development, software, evaluation, projects

[25 Mar 2008]

The tech requirements of private equity funds

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.

Tags: private equity

[20 Aug 2007]

'My ERP supplier has been acquired - now what?'

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...

Tags: acquisitions, mergers, erp

[05 Feb 2007]

Q&A: Wipro chairman and managing director Azim Premji

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.

Tags: india

[07 Nov 2006]

Brampton Factor: You call this an information society?

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...

Tags: intellectual property law, information society, copyright law, intellectual property

[20 Jun 2006]

Criminal IT: There's no cure-all for information security

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...

Tags: information security, hackers

[22 Jun 2005]

Outsourcing success means understanding your business

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...

Tags: programme management, outsourcing, bpo

[21 Mar 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: VoIP wins

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...

Tags: tech nomad, mobile working, skype, voip

[17 Feb 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Choose the right vendor

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...

Tags: it vendor, collaboration

[29 Nov 2004]

Offshoring: How to deal with customer backlash

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]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tune in to the customer

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tune in to the customer

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...

Tags: erp, sap, crm

[25 Jun 2004]

Inside offshoring: India's telecoms infrastructure

Inside offshoring: India's telecoms infrastructure

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...

Tags: offshoring, telecoms infrastructure, india

[16 Jun 2004]

The Bloor Perspective: The CSO, Dell and Cisco at home

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...

Tags: cso, linksys, bloor, cisco

[31 Mar 2003]

Devil's Advocate: Gloomy analysts?

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]

3G - now is not the time to give up

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]

Serialisation: eBoys - Part 1 - Go Big or Go Home

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]

Devil's Advocate: Sobering times for IT

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]

John Lamb's Week: Perot on a mission in London

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]

Strangling the virus; the big number change, and big banker gains.

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]

Good money after bad? Venture capitalists and Internet start-ups

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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