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Comment The sad thing about huge mergers and acquisitions is that it is well known that they destroy economic value. Microsoft is no exception and its bid for Yahoo! just emphasises its route to success, argues Martin Brampton.
[20 Feb 2008]
Comment Mergers and acquisitions A sharp CV really does count, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden UK Global Executive Search - and certain facts matter more than your skills at tortoise husbandry. Office insights… Bored and underpaid?
[17 Jan 2008]
Comment Here are five basic rules to help CIOs make mergers successful. Mergers can help drive corporate transformation and redefine competitive and technological cultures in an organisation. IT is vital to building and sustaining the operational success...
[25 Sep 2007]
Comment There has been a raft of mergers and takeovers in the last few years, especially in the convenience store and DIY markets and Professor Joshua Bamfield at the Centre for Retail Research believes that the integration of back-office systems is where...
[02 Jul 2007]
CIO Analysis There has been a raft of mergers and takeovers in the last few years, especially in the convenience store and DIY markets and Professor Joshua Bamfield at the Centre for Retail Research believes that the integration of back-office systems is where...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Thorp has a wide variety of experience in senior management and IT roles, specialising for several years in mergers and acquisitions. John Thorp joined FTSE100 consumer electronics retailer DSG International (formerly known as the Dixons Stores...
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment Health and beauty chain Boots has become one of the most familiar names on UK high streets - a long way from the small herbal remedy shop it started out as under Sir Jesse Boot back in 1871. More recently the company has been facing fierce...
[25 Apr 2007]
Comment After years of evolution through the ordered chaos of new technology roll-outs, as well as mergers, acquisitions and the need to marry disparate and dispersed offices and workforces, many businesses are unlikely to have the clearest picture of...
[26 Mar 2007]
Comment Given the recent abundance of mergers and acquisitions amongst the mid-market ERP vendors, IT directors managing an ERP system may feel uncertain about the future of their incumbent system. Customer retention is vital in mergers as customer...
[05 Feb 2007]
Comment If they continue to follow the Western model, they can expect: rapid growth followed by competitive pressures to continually cut costs; efficiency drives; process re-engineering; consolidation, mergers and acquisitions.
[18 Jul 2006]
Comment Some sectors, such as financial services and insurance in particular, have more of a legacy IT problem than others, with creaking mainframe systems accumulated through decades of mergers and acquisitions.
[16 Mar 2006]
Comment Mergers have driven the number of firms down to a level where it is often hard to find a major auditor who does not have a conflict of interest. There is a bifurcation taking place within companies clamouring over conflicting ideas of best practice.
[22 Nov 2005]
Comment Takeovers (and most mergers are really takeovers) invariably produce fewer and larger units of organisation. Open source is not wholly different to commercial software development. But, says Martin Brampton, it can lead to some unusual and...
[25 Oct 2005]
Comment As rumours circulate that Time Warner may sell off AOL to another big-name internet player, Martin Brampton wonders if this age of mega-mergers is good for anyone in the long run. And most mergers are takeovers behind the polite front.
[20 Sep 2005]
Leader But it is not only its size - $13.5bn - or the expectation of a wave of further software vendor mergers that is of note here. Much has already been said about the Symantec-Veritas marriage given that it has been telegraphed over the past week.
[16 Dec 2004]
Leader The move marks the latest in a flurry of mergers and acquisitions within the security industry, contrary to the suggested wisdom of one industry figure who recently warned that the large consolidators will lose the selling power of perceived...
[06 Oct 2004]
Leader But how often have large mergers taken place - not only among banks - where the respective CIOs haven't been asked the big IT questions, mainly about integration? Compliance is clearly one of the big issues of 2004.
[22 Apr 2004]
Comment Mergers and acquisitions by organisations have increased the heterogeneous nature of data centres. Three years ago, every application with a piece of HTML code was labelled by its developer, or vendor, as a portal.
[24 Mar 2004]
Comment This is already evident in the enterprise content management sector as a relentless series of mergers are transforming the landscape into a small number of the players providing a soup-to-nuts range of capabilities.
[29 Feb 2004]
Comment Are the proposed mergers in the applications software business all negative in nature? Even if that weren't the case, consider this nugget: 90 per cent of 1990s mergers failed to deliver on their stated objectives.
[11 Jun 2003]
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