measurements in comment and analysis
The Naked CIO: Service level disagreements
Comment Of course, agreements need to have minimums - whether they are response times and other standard finite measurements. Service level agreements are great at perpetuating mediocrity and blocking excellence. [07 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Healthy mobility
Comment A mobile Wii would be really something, and so would air pressure and pollution measurements. Written on a rainy summer afternoon just four miles from my home in a local café with a free wi-fi service. [10 Jun 2008]
Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer
Comment They have estimates of the thickness of the ice provided by satellites and submarines but they don't have any actual measurements of the thickness of the ice as opposed to the snow. And it's the size of a briefcase - and... [21 Jan 2008]
Where is outsourcing heading?
Comment At the moment there are no common delivery standards, or specific industry measurements that dictate quality and quantity levels. Outsourcing is in a state of flux. Tony Virdi says the new industrialised model that will... [05 Dec 2007]
Analyst View: What makes your business tick?
Comment Companies do need to pay extra attention to what measurements drive this response. Looking to make your business more efficient? Corporate performance management, or CPM, could hold the answer. But what exactly does it... [18 Apr 2005]
silicon.com gets a UK biometric ID card
Comment I simply sit still for a few seconds while various unique facial measurements are scanned and recorded. After disappearing down an underground maze of passages at the UK Passport Service (UKPS) headquarters and being... [12 Aug 2004]
3GSM Review: Ovum on vendors' flight from hype
Comment Subjective Mean Opinion Score (MOS) measurements backing this up were available, though no one had them to hand. Major infrastructure vendors are making serious efforts to reign in the hype that has characterised the... [01 Mar 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: The Microsoft settlement, the NTL challenge, and SLAs
Comment In the past IT users and providers have often attempted to create and monitor SLAs with technical terms, tools and measurements. But now they need to buckle down and develop SLAs that every end user can understand and... [12 Nov 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Following the money trail around Britain and Britons
Comment Tuesday sees the start of a project funded by retailers to scan in the body measurements of a sample of the British population. The last survey of women - using hand measurements - was 50 years ago and... [22 Jun 2001]
Corporate Voodoo: Extract 2 - Vodafone's secret weapons
Comment He has embraced growth and scale on a global basis as his key measurements of success, and has been single-minded and aggressive about achieving these. What of Vodafone? Their key weapon has been a real visionary and... [09 May 2001]
Ebusiness Despatches: René Carayol on vision, on aggression, on Chris Gent
Comment He has embraced growth and scale on a global basis as his key measurements of success, and has been single-minded and aggressive about achieving these. The major legacy of the early internet era will be speed. [28 Feb 2001]
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