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Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment While top executives can use the expensive helicopter ferry service launching soon, others are obliged to factor in a five-hour lead time before boarding even 30- to 50-minute short-haul flights to neighbouring tech cities such as Chennai and... [30 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment When you consider UK companies alone spend $50bn per year on business travel, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council, anything to get their executives out of the air and into an Aeron chair is a good thing. [30 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up This isn't to suggest that Gates has a shoe size to rival Sideshow Bob but rather that the great man's wide range of duties are likely to fall not on the shoulders of one person but a veritable riot of Microsoft executives, including Ray Ozzie... [27 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment Cathy Holley is a partner with executive search company Boyden, focusing on placing CIOs and senior IT executives across a broad range of sectors. The silicon.com CIO50 2008 list was compiled using the votes of 25 CIOs and an expert judging panel. [11 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Price of panic
Comment Capricious boardroom decisions based on the flawed thinking of panicky executives always end up with the wrong things being cut. Unfortunately, it's a truth rarely understood by C-level executives. Hard-working employees have often expended untold... [03 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?
Comment In theory confident artists, established or new, should be calling the shots and music executives shaking in their boots at the thought of more defectors. There is pressure to develop so-called 360-degree deals, where a record company manages all... [22 May 2008]
How will your deal weather a downturn?
Comment The consensus is outsourcing will not be affected by the downturn, because more executives will use it to reduce costs. If a company's market share is hit, their need for outsourced services may be reduced. [10 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Animal farm
Comment I sometimes wonder if there is any place for it in a modern organisation that prides itself on competition between executives and relies on Darwinism - the survival of the fittest - for long-term success. [25 Mar 2008]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment At the top of that list sits data protection - the single most important legal issue by a wide margin, according to a recent Quocirca survey of 250 German, UK and US executives. No one wants to be the next TK Maxx, whose parent company TJX had more... [18 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up The emails indicate that even the company's own executives struggled to get Vista running properly on their machines. In response to the disclosure of the emails a harried-looking Microsoft PR officer offered the opinion that the executives had... [07 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up As the news sent shockwaves across the globe, the Round-Up was delighted to note that at a press conference announcing the seismic shift, CEO Steve Ballmer and his co-joined executives decided they would eschew ties to adopt the relaxed, anti... [29 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment I fear that few chief executives realise the capacity of a data breach to hole their business below the waterline. Over lunch the other day I got a preview of some research into UK data breaches that put the average cost of an incident at £1.4m per... [27 Feb 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?
Comment It seems that they still hold an allure for some top executives. Every investor hoped to buy into "the next Microsoft", a company that would start from next to nothing and grow massively. The assumption is always that any successful IT company has... [20 Feb 2008]
What is the future for Lotus?
Comment But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really pay off, asks Mark Kobayashi-Hillary.marks the 15th year of Lotusphere, the annual gathering of Lotus users, enthusiasts and executives keen on shaping the software's direction... [24 Jan 2008]
Azim Premji
AS Profile But the trick for executives such as Premji will be to manage the fast growth of the Indian IT industry - and make sure it doesn't run out of fuel. Azim Premji took over Wipro - a $2m hydrogenated cooking fat company - in 1966 at the tender age of 21. [12 Oct 2007]
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