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How will your deal weather a downturn?
Comment If a contract is particularly focused on cost reduction, the supplier's obligations will be structured within tight parameters. A careful look at key aspects of existing contracts would not go amiss, suggests lawyer Margaret Harvey. [10 Apr 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment But the case for the defence is that the OOXML specification is actually well structured, extensible and not a tangled mess. This argument portrays ODF as clean, well structured and designed for extensibility, while OOXML is a poor foundation for... [04 Apr 2008]
Where is outsourcing heading?
Comment End users commonly complain about high failure rates for IT projects, inflexibility of suppliers, high rates of renegotiation of contracts and an absence of structured IT delivery. Outsourcing is in a state of flux. [05 Dec 2007]
Time to rethink performance management
Comment Use of structured key performance indicators (KPIs) in the financial services sector has driven up the quality and completeness of specific types of data perhaps more than elsewhere. Most businesses pride themselves on knowing how they are performing. [04 Dec 2007]
How to build an IT department
Comment Therefore, you will find many people around me who are quite structured and task oriented - because I'm not. Andy McCue talked to him, at silicon.com's CIO Forum in London, about moulding an IT team. Andy McCue: You were brought in from outside to... [17 Oct 2007]
The tech requirements of private equity funds
Comment The whole presentation can, therefore, be very structured and transparent. Towergroup's Bob McDowall addresses some of them. Private equity funds continually refine their investment strategy, in order to develop better techniques to manage deal... [20 Aug 2007]
CIOs must not fend off risk alone
Comment Everything from understanding the regulatory environment to determining how staff are educated around key risk issues needs to be part of a company-wide process aligned to structured IT risk management processes. [10 Jul 2007]
How do you get your head around 'risk'?
Comment But in order for businesses to get the benefit of such a risk assessment it must be comprehensive and structured, so the methodology can be replicated and the process becomes scalable. Understanding where risk exists is a challenge for all... [06 Jul 2007]
Information overload
Comment Before tackling the problem, companies need to understand whether they're dealing with structured or unstructured data. Businesses are drowning in data - but how much good is it doing them? Stewart Baines finds out how to retrieve and understand... [30 Mar 2007]
Plugging and preventing data leaks
Comment This is particularly true when classifying structured information stored in databases. In today's knowledge economy, getting the right information at the right time can make the difference between success and failure. [07 Mar 2007]
Open source - is it a risk for your business?
Comment However, most forms of OSS licences are structured in favour of the contributor rather than the licensee. For many organisations, from SMEs to government departments, the use of open source software (or OSS) is becoming increasingly popular. [31 Aug 2006]
Q&A: Microsoft UK head of anti-piracy Michala Alexander
Comment Gavin Becket, Bristol city council's IT strategy manager, said at an OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) conference last year there is a genuine fear that companies who announce they are moving to open... [22 May 2006]
Q&A: SAP CEO Henning Kagermann
Comment Everybody starts with salesforce automation because it makes sense since it's not very structured. A lot can happen in six years. Ask Henning Kagermann, chief executive of SAP, the world's largest enterprise applications maker. [18 Apr 2006]
The McCue Interview: Criminal Justice IT director-general John Suffolk
Comment But he's taking it all in his stride, as you would expect of someone tasked with hauling an independent-minded and locally structured criminal justice system - police, prosecutors, courts, civil servants and probation workers - into the 21st... [06 Mar 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Service management
Comment An efficiently run infrastructure must first be structured coherently. Service management of corporate IT will never work without solid operational processes, argues Quocirca analyst Jon Collins. We hear a lot about how we should organise our IT... [20 Oct 2005]
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