global manufacturer in comment and analysis
eBay pays a high price for fakes
Comment Last month eBay was ordered to pay €38m to luxury goods manufacturer LVMH, for allowing online auctions of fake copies of the luxury goods. If eBay is unable to overturn the decision of the French courts and other courts... [01 Aug 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment Apple certainly isn't the first manufacturer to realise the importance of third-party development on a phone but it might prove to be one of the critical moves that captures the hearts and minds of consumers and indeed... [23 Apr 2008]
The greening of IT: Do it yourself
Comment A 50-person office could save £3,000 per year through double-sided printing, according to manufacturer Canon. Using recycled paper can contribute to reducing global emissions, with quality and cost no... [02 Nov 2007]
Bruno Laquet
CIO Profile France-born Bruno Laquet joined the world's second-largest steel manufacturer Corus in 2004 and has responsibility for an annual IT budget of £130m and a global IT department of more than 1,000 staff. [06 Jun 2007]
Sam Palmisano
AS Profile This past year, IBM sold its PC division to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo as part of the ongoing move to emphasise IT services. But there is more to the Lenovo sell-off than meets the eye and, with a significant number of... [23 Sep 2005]
The McCue Interview: Unilever CIO Neil Cameron
Comment Unilever CIO Neil Cameron looks admiringly out of the window at the cranes and construction work busily underway on the shell of the global consumer goods manufacturer's opulent headquarters at... [01 Sep 2005]
The McCue Interview: Dell CIO Randy Mott
Comment So declares a printout stuck on the in-tray of one of the desks near Dell CIO Randy Mott's office, which, as with thousands of other employees at the computer manufacturer's Round Rock, Texas headquarters, is a... [09 Aug 2005]
Leader: Dell CIO defection is no knockout blow by HP
Leader Mott is widely regarded as one of the world's top CIOs, having almost single-handedly transformed Wal-Mart's supply chain before moving onto Dell five years ago where he has continually squeezed cost out of the PC... [13 Jul 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: Making your spike spikier
Comment A potted history many of you will be aware of sees Nokia move from a vertically integrated paper company - owning forests, mills and paper sales - to being a rubber manufacturer. We all know Nokia - the largest company... [13 Jul 2005]
Microsoft's vision: PDA for the common man
Comment HP has boosted its share in the PDA market in recent months by being the first manufacturer to launch products using Microsoft's PocketPC 2002, and if the mobile networks get their marketing in order, they may well... [26 Feb 2002]
Avaya: From PBXes to CRM?
Comment Struggling Lucent now looks as if it can wave goodbye to a rescue package from French communications equipment manufacturer Alcatel. The support of CRM giant Siebel, Avaya's partner in a global... [14 Jun 2001]
What's in a name? The art of online branding
Comment The legendary battle between sports equipment manufacturer Prince and a small training company of the same name was the first illustration of these dangers. Secondly - as has been well documented - a local business can... [13 Sep 2000]
Compaq's makeover: is beauty more than skin deep?
Comment Known traditionally as a manufacturer of PCs, Compaq now touts itself as an innovative internet company. Since the departure of Eckhard Pfeiffer and the installation, last summer, of new president and CEO, Michael... [04 Aug 2000]
The Value Proposition: IT and the utopian fallacy
Comment If you are a capital intensive manufacturer making everyday products that approach is fine, but for an information intensive firm Strassmann's KC valuation is far more relevant. The shake-out of the dot-coms, mergers of... [05 Apr 2000]
Flat Eric quits the Web as Levi's finds ecommerce doesn't fit
Comment At the end of last month, jeans manufacturer, Levi's, announced it was ending a year-long 'trial' of selling its clothes online. This network is how the manufacturer has paid the rent for almost 150... [24 Nov 1999]
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