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Take stock for tough times
Comment Reducing range complexity can improve all other parts of the business - from forecasting through to supply chain - and can unlock working capital. History suggests those retailers that continue to focus on innovation now will emerge as winners... [24 Jul 2008]
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment Experts are forecasting an important role in the enterprise for new media data applications. But for many CIOs that future has already arrived, argues Howard Greenfield. As content from iPods, TV and websites starts to invade enterprise routers and... [19 Feb 2008]
New Year's deliberations
Comment January is the month for grand predictions, for forecasting the future and picking out the next big thing. Just because it's January 2008 doesn't mean businesses have to be weighing up hot new technologies. [03 Jan 2008]
Go real-time with your data
Comment Whilst this latency is generally acceptable for trend analysis and forecasting, traditional data warehouses simply can't keep pace with today's BI requirements for fast and accurate data. Sharing data across an organisation brings the most benefits... [15 Mar 2007]
Where did Dell go wrong?
Comment Eventually Compaq imploded because of incredibly poor demand-forecasting, an inability to come up with a workable direct sales strategy and a failure to understand there was a difference between being King of the World and King of Downtown Houston. [01 Feb 2007]
Compliance made easy
Comment So the general push for those companies has been to demonstrate that they have more rigour in terms of their budgeting process and forecasting system. Business intelligence isn't just about enhancing performance, says Danny Bradbury - it can help... [10 Oct 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Budgets made simple
Comment Budgeting is about controlling the business and ensuring accuracy in forecasting financial performance - more important than ever in these days where compliance and responsibility to shareholders is uppermost in the finance director's mind. [06 Oct 2006]
Q&A: Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen
Comment With an 'intra-quarter business update' forecasting Adobe will once again beat analyst expectations and the merger with Macromedia almost put to bed, you can forgive those at the company - one of the few standalone software outfits to endure over... [09 Nov 2005]
Skills gap rears its ugly head
Comment Tyson recommended, for instance, that businesses spend more time forecasting and determining which skills will be useful to them in the future. The number of job openings is rising - but it's only becoming more difficult for UK employers to find... [21 Apr 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.08.04
Round-Up Normally any RFID chip scheme which is written about on the pages of silicon.com receives a barrage of negative feedback from those not yet ready to embrace the technology and a deluge of 'fire and brimstone' rantings from those forecasting the... [06 Aug 2004]
Collaboration: The supply chain reaction
Comment The final stage is where suppliers and customers collaborate on forecasting. This model characterises a company's supply chain as moving through three phases: from the initial stage of functional silos, where separate departments do their own... [25 Jun 2004]
Leader: Recovery?
Leader Meanwhile the mobile handset giant stuck by a positive between-results trading statement earlier this month, forecasting industry volume growth of 10 per cent this year. SAP forecasting a significant upturn - given its health is defined by... [26 Jan 2004]
Q&A: Vint Cerf on VoIP
Comment But when it comes to forecasting the adoption of voice over IP, the veteran computer scientist has no such reluctance to qualify this as one of the next big things to affect the technology firmament. For someone widely regarded as the father of the... [12 Sep 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Management SPECIAL - decision-making, ROI and political risks
Comment This goes much further than the traditional processes of making the business case, ensuring business line involvement, forecasting monetary returns and measuring actual versus budget both in costs and time. [02 Dec 2002]
Reverse auction: Friend or foe?
Comment Reverse auctions can also undermine the trust needed to manage complex intertwining business processes, such as demand forecasting or design collaboration. But is that just the buyer talking? Adrian Mello investigates the benefits or otherwise for... [29 Aug 2002]
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