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In Search of Clarity: Unravelling the Complexities of Executive Decision-making

whitepaper Read this report from The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by SAP/Business Objects, to see the results of a decision-making survey it conducted with over 150 executives from around the world. Decision-making is at the core of all business...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[15 May 2008]

IT and the environment; a new item on the CIO's agenda?

whitepaper The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a major online survey in June and July 2007, supplemented by in-depth interviews with senior IT executives, to investigate what's really happening in IT departments.Are efforts being made by organisations...

Tags: data center, assets, departments, affect

[14 May 2008]

Learn how collaboration will fuel success with this FREE Economist report

whitepaper The future belongs to those who collaborate effectively, according to "Collaboration: Transforming the Way Business Works," a new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit, available here courtesy of Cisco.

Tags: knowledge and data management

[07 May 2008]

Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT

whitepaper This is particularly worrisome given the lack of confidence in data available to decision makers: a 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and commissioned by Business Objects found that nine out of ten corporate executives...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[07 May 2008]

Accenture Study: Buyers Now Using F&A Outsourcing for Strategic Change as Well as Cost Cutting

whitepaper That is what Accenture Finance Solutions and the Economist Intelligence Unit discovered in a study released this June. The finance and accounting (F&A) outsourcing market is primed for growth. Nearly three-quarters of corporate executives see...

Tags: outsourcing, finance, face, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

Report: Economic, Industry and Corporate Trends

whitepaper This Foresight 20/20 survey and report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Cisco, presents the findings from a global survey of senior executives, analysts and policy makers. It addresses the pace of globalization, demographic and...

Tags: asset management, survey, economist intelligence unit, intelligence

[12 Dec 2007]

Report: Great Expectations—The Changing Role of IT in the Business

whitepaper This report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Capgemini, Cisco Systems, and SAP, presents findings from a global survey of senior business and IT executives. The research points to a yawning gap between IT capabilities and the...

Tags: finance, economist intelligence unit, findings, executives

[12 Dec 2007]

Report: Great Expectations—The Changing Role of IT in the Business

whitepaper This report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Capgemini, Cisco Systems, and SAP, presents findings from a global survey of senior business and IT executives. The research points to a yawning gap between IT capabilities and the...

Tags: finance, economist intelligence unit, demands, cisco systems

[12 Dec 2007]

Convergence Takes Hold in the Enterprise

whitepaper Nearly half of senior executives in a global survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit for AT&T, say that IP convergence has been implemented in all or most of their business — nearly double the number in the same survey a year ago.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, survey, convergence,

[25 Nov 2007]

How to Achieve High Performance through Superior Research & Development

whitepaper This paper presents results of a survey conducted by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit to determine how large enterprises within the aerospace, telecommunications, tech manufacturing, and software development industries are spending...

Tags: back-office, enterprises, survey, manufacturing

[12 Oct 2007]

Dell pledges to be carbon neutral

News The survey was conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and involved more than 200 senior IT executives, with more than half of them from Europe. Dell has claimed it is the first of the large IT suppliers to commit to a carbon-neutral strategy...

Tags: green, carbon, co2, dell

[28 Sep 2007]

UK to be top global talent hotspot

News The results of the Global Talent Index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit and headhunter firm Heidrick & Struggles puts only the US ahead of the UK. The UK will be one of the world's talent hotspots within the next five years thanks to the...

Tags: uk, talent, skills

[26 Sep 2007]

Expanding companies place faith in tech

News Separate research by the Economist Intelligence Unit supports this view, showing that better performing mid-sized companies attach more importance to technology than their counterparts. Dan Armstrong, senior editor at the Economist Intelligence...

Tags: growth, economist, it, sme

[25 Sep 2007]

Deploy or Delay?: Converged Networks in the Enterprise

whitepaper Network convergence means more than cutting telephone charges and improving videoconferencing. Many organisations are examining how converged networks can be used to improve team collaboration and boost productivity; to enable better communications...

Tags: voice - data integration, convergence, improving, hackers

[15 Sep 2007]

Thinking Big: Midsize Companies in the United States and the Challenges of Growth

whitepaper This white paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit highlights the growth priorities that midsize U.S.firms (those with $30 million to $300 million in earnings) report they will focus on for the next three years:

Tags: midsize, economist intelligence unit, outlines, objectives

[26 Jul 2007]

American CIOs show how it's done

News The next most common responses were to increase the budget (45 per cent) or reduce quality and performance testing (31 per cent), research from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and HP reveals. Could UK CIOs learn a thing or two about managing...

Tags: us, cio, cios, america

[28 Jun 2007]

Mid-sized companies lack IT plans

News Research from the Economist Intelligence Unit and HP also finds European IT staff are more complacent than others when it comes to delivering projects on time as they feel their jobs are not in danger if they fail to do so.

Tags: sme, costs, staff, it

[07 Jun 2007]

Key Drivers for Security Policy Updates

whitepaper This AT&T white paper presents the results of a survey that The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently completed on behalf of AT&T. EIU polled 236 executives from a range of industries to determine the circumstances that were most likely to...

Tags: security applications, survey, economist intelligence unit, eiu

[02 May 2007]

Integrating Applications in an IP Environment

whitepaper The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in cooperation with AT&T, recently conducted a survey of 236 executives (including 77 CEOs) in an effort to tease out the convergence-related issues facing businesses today.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, survey, intelligence, load

[02 May 2007]

Europe's execs turn to patents for cash

News The white paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), sponsored by Qualcomm, itself known as an IP powerhouse in telecoms, has found executives in knowledge companies are turning towards intellectual property more and more to bolster revenues.

Tags: ipr, intellectual property, patent

[25 Apr 2007]

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