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Strategies For Success: When Corporate Cultures Clash

whitepaper Too often, mid-sized businesses overlook the effect of corporate culture on the success of enterprise resource planning (ERP). This paper highlights important tips for successful ERP implementations and discusses how corporate culture clashes can...

Tags: back-office, culture, montgomery research, corporate culture

[11 Apr 2008]

See how retail banks can break down the barriers to innovation

whitepaper Retail banking has traditionally been a place where the road to innovation is blocked by numerous barriers: IT, corporate culture, operational limitations and more. But there is an opportunity to break from the past by moving to next-generation...

Tags: architectures, innovation, banking, road

[11 Apr 2008]

Sarbanes-Oxley: Is Corporate Compliance or Corporate Culture the Solution to Ethical Crises?

whitepaper But creating a vibrant and ethical culture promises not only to increase transparency and accountability. While the Sarbanes Oxley Act may not be the ideal response to recent corporate scandals, it is a predictable response given the impact that...

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, response, ethical, evidence

[10 Apr 2008]

Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance

whitepaper The paper concludes that an understanding of how and when employee ownership works successfully requires a three-pronged analysis of the incentives that ownership gives, the participative mechanisms available to workers to act on those incentives...

Tags: ownership, employee, incentives, mechanisms

[10 Apr 2008]

People + Projects = Strategic Execution

whitepaper The elements of stability - a sustainable corporate strategy, a project management culture, capable and adequate human capital to deliver results, and a clear link between project activities and strategy - are achievable.

Tags: hewlett packard, projects, activities, human

[24 Mar 2008]

Remote working here to stay

News The research shows once a business develops a culture of remote working the level of service experienced by remote workers becomes increasingly important to it - or, as Quocirca analyst and report author Bob Tarzey explains, distributed working...

Tags: wfh, remote working, workers, locations

[13 Mar 2008]

Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks

Comment But the culture is changing fast and new media is a big part of that. She says employees are making use of Facebook, MySpace and YouTube creating a culture that exploits the new communication and connection features.

Tags: social networking, new media, ipods, tv

[19 Feb 2008]

Long-hours tech culture hits morale

News Jo Causon, marketing and corporate affairs director at the CMI, said organisations are being forced to use their staff more intensively but this will create longer-term problems if the long-hours culture isn't kept in check.

Tags: managers, it, morale, cmi

[18 Feb 2008]

Offshoring - not just about the costs

Comment To transform the new Steria with a strong client-facing culture in Europe, and a new innovation mindset with India at its core. And for India to become the centre for all education for Steria, with the launch of the Steria Academy there, and with...

Tags: india, bpo, skills, offshore

[18 Feb 2008]

Microsoft changes M&A strategy with Yahoo! bid

News I frankly don't buy the culture clash angle… Microsoft does not have a single corporate culture anyway," he said. Andrew Frank, research VP at Gartner, told silicon.com: "Microsoft's culture has been more of a build it than buy it kind of culture.

Tags: microsoft, google, web, yahoo!

[05 Feb 2008]

IT at your service

Comment Moving to a services culture, in which IT is seen as providing a portfolio of discrete and understandable services to business, is a crucial part of reconditioning corporate perspectives on IT. One answer may to be move the computing department to...

Tags: service culture, service quality, management, itil

[09 Jan 2008]

Torex Retail looks to future

News The new management team has set up 60 meetings with employees to make them aware of the new coherent corporate culture. The new team in charge of retail software provider Torex Retail has been reassuring customers about its product plans - and...

Tags: torex retail, retail, epos, supplier

[13 Nov 2007]

Offshoring - culture lessons are crucial

News Mark Hodges, executive director of corporate development at offshoring and outsourcing consultancy Equaterra, said: "I do think there are a lot of executives on the buy-side who have not visited these [offshore] centres.

Tags: india, outsourcing, offshoring, cio

[16 Oct 2007]

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages Physical Security Through Strategic IT Convergence (Level 300)

whitepaper This webcast will help gain a better understanding of the Microsoft Worldwide Security Operations and how they protect Microsoft assets in a manner consistent with corporate culture. Through the strategic deployment of security systems, the...

Tags: infrastructure management, assets, protect, deployment

[05 Oct 2007]

Beware IT risks - or watch your rivals get ahead

News The analyst said a company needs a solid foundation of IT assets, people, and supporting processes and controls that enable executives to manage the right risks in the right order; a risk governance structure and process that integrates IT risk...

Tags: it managers, gartner, risk, security

[18 Sep 2007]

mySAP Enterprise Portal at Freudenberg Group

whitepaper For Freudenberg, a diversified technology company, virtual project teams and global knowledge management are part of its daily corporate culture. When the company first went live with its enterprise portal, Freudenberg Information Xchange (FIX...

Tags: portals, portal, enterprise portal, task

[26 Jul 2007]

Q&A: Ashwin Goyall, Oracle VP of industry strategy for financial services

Comment Taking on so many new people with experience of other cultures, has that changed Oracle's own corporate culture in any way? I came from Siebel, which had a different culture and what I found immensely healthy was the willingness to adapt the...

Tags: banking, q&a, financial services, oracle

[23 Jul 2007]

CIO Essentials: DIY IT, virtualisation and WFH

News The middle way between the two extremes is a persuasive top-down culture of use, rather than it being seen as a benefit and 'nice-to-have'. Work/life balance' and 'flexible working' are terms normally associated with the corporate HR policy rather...

Tags: virtualisation, cio essentials

[22 May 2007]

Remote and mobile working tech "essential"

News Responding to silicon.com by email - while on on the train from Paddington to Bath - Kevin Fitzpatrick, CIO at Sodexho UK, said: "One of the crucial items is a culture that understands and accepts the concept of virtual teams, audio, video and web...

Tags: mobile working, remote working, cio jury

[18 May 2007]

BI: - Implementing and Managing an Information Quality Culture

whitepaper It is a culture of stewardship in which the corporate organism acts as a team in which if one part wins, the entire enterprise wins- and vice versa. Information Quality is not a project to implement. It is a mindset of customer service in providing...

Tags: knowledge and data management, sustainable, principles, implement

[12 May 2007]

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