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AS Analysis Coby continues to adhere to his mantra of there being "no IT projects, only business projects" and is currently overseeing the tech infrastructure behind the new Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport and introducing lean manufacturing principles... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: TV's changing channels
Leader It seems people prefer the 'sit back' approach to watching TV rather than the 'lean forward' technique required to watch content on a computer. More and more people will return to their trusty television and enjoy all the benefits of on-demand and... [03 May 2007]
The Paratrooper CIO: David Lister, Reuters
Comment Lister says: "We need to get fit, lean and healthy and move away from being a global federated company to a global integrated one. Of the four different types of CIO - paratrooper, consultant, professional, executive - the paratrooper is the strong... [19 Sep 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Are you a windscreen or a fly?
Comment Now the lean-forward three-foot interaction of the computer is joined by the lean-back three-yard interaction of the TV - and the three-inch interaction with handheld devices. Convergence is one of those overloaded words typical of the... [11 Aug 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Teleworking - get it right
Comment Offering flexible working hours will often improve motivation and morale but even with 'core' hours where everyone should be in the office, providing complete lines of communication and service coverage can be difficult, especially in increasingly... [03 Nov 2005]
Leader: Dell CIO defection is no knockout blow by HP
Leader The company is still streets ahead of HP and other rivals in terms of market share and profit and Mott has left a healthy and extremely lean IT legacy for his successor. HP has delivered a powerful body-blow to rival Dell this week by poaching its... [13 Jul 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: How the CIO differs from the traditional IT director
Comment I want to make it clear that for those who do lean towards the former category there is nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with being a utility. Boy did I feel the wrath of some of the CIOs and other IT heads in attendance - and even afterwards... [08 Dec 2004]
Leader: E-procurement - remember it, it's now with us
Leader While many of those serving an industry such as telecoms are giant equipment makers, not short of a bob or two (despite some lean, post-bubble years), smaller suppliers across economies have been hit hard by reverse auctions, to single out that... [18 Aug 2004]
Leader: Neglect the SME at your peril
Leader While tech salespeople will have to put in long hours, tough negotiations and, chances are, cut some pretty lean deals to get a corporate enterprise to choose them for a several-thousand PC HCI scheme, as well as commit to substantial aftercare... [03 Feb 2004]
Leader: Wi-Fi: Right time, wrong place?
Leader This is a man who told his own resting staff: "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean. Nobody seems to doubt the usefulness of Wi-Fi for the modern mobile worker - though some suggest portable may be a better phrase than mobile. [28 Oct 2003]
Boardroom Despatches: Fear of failure
Comment We all know about the successful flotation of the UK's 'other incumbent', up in Hull, and there were various contract wins coming in even through the lean times. Too often UK bosses are stigmatised when they fall short. [23 Sep 2003]
Internet cafés: Easy come, easy go?
Comment It's no surprise that in these lean and mean times, easyInternetCafes' investors decided they'd sooner take their money and run than convert their stakes into shares. So how many internet café-owning millionaires do you know? [18 Oct 2001]
Agenda Setters 2001: Buying their way to the top?
Comment That's partly down to a sensible strategy of consolidation during a lean period but it's also down to the fact that Chambers played the buying game (since 1995 at least) on the back of an ever growing share price. [10 Apr 2001]
"You're fired!" - but as one door shuts, another opens
Comment Companies are being forced to shed workers to look as lean as they can to the investors, brokers and analysts scrutinising their every move. Recent announcements of departures at heavyweights including AOL, Lucent, Motorola and Nortel sit in the... [26 Jan 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: the Red Hat rumours, Informix's passion for Ardent, and XML stumbles towards standardisation
Comment Due to the severe cost-cutting exercise carried out in the wake of Informix's earlier financial problems, the operation is now very lean and cost-effective. Of most interest to Red Hat would be the work carried out by Corel on a distribution of... [05 Dec 1999]
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