economy decades
The perfect storm: Why now is the time for open source
White Paper The global economy is in free fall, with no geographic region or industry unaffected by the scarcity of capital, market volatility, and reduced consumer spending. Dismal economic indicators reflect business conditions... [17 Sep 2009]
Getting Real Value From Your Data: A Four-Layer Model for Turning Corporate Information and Knowledge Into Improved ROI
White Paper For a while during the last two decades of the 20th century, the rapid DCS and ERP penetration of large industries brought on a wave of increased efficiency in the world economy. The big promise of... [16 Sep 2009]
Nanotech and web services need cash boost
News For decades to come, ICT will underpin the competitiveness of our economy, the efficiency of our public services and our quality of life," information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding said... [16 Mar 2009]
Tech to cure crop failure and look inside Einstein's mind?
News In the future, technology will be able to help address issues such as crop failure in the developing world, the competitiveness of the UK economy and even understand the motivation of historical figures. [12 Mar 2009]
Why your business should embrace web 2.0
Comment Prahalad, arguably the world's most prominent management guru, wrote a decade ago about this new economy power shift towards consumers. In 2003, Zuboff and husband Jim Maxmin published a new book, The Support... [22 Jan 2009]
Out-of-Band Management: The Integrated Approach to Remote IT Infrastructure Management
White Paper Although not new or unique, these imperatives have taken on renewed urgency in today's Internet-driven economy. For decades, business imperatives for Information Technology (IT) have remained constant -... [04 Aug 2008]
Indian IT outsourcers look ahead
Comment The strong positioning of India in the global economy was articulated endlessly - but so was the reality of working with today's very real business challenges. The young turks whose vision created Nasscom two... [14 Feb 2008]
Where did Dell go wrong?
Comment Dell began to treat consumers and even some business customers as if they were economy airline passengers. The company's secret weapon for a few decades was strong customer satisfaction. Faced with poor... [01 Feb 2007]
HP Delivers an IT Solution With Economy, Efficiency, and Data Protection for Africa's Largest Packaging Company
White Paper Decades of acquiring other companies resulted in a highly distributed IT infrastructure, with divisions maintaining their own IT operations and running different systems. Nampak is based in South Africa and has 130 sites... [09 Aug 2006]
Breaking China: One entrepreneur's decade of change
Comment This will drive the Chinese economy in the upcoming few decades. It is this new crop of Chinese entrepreneurs that will redefine China's position in the global economy. Essentially, the... [04 Jul 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Business ethics
Comment Notwithstanding their generally pusillanimous attitude to business, both the US and UK governments have had no alternative to bringing in ever more legislation to combat mounting abuses that undermine consumer confidence and indeed the... [03 Jan 2006]
Leader: Private equity, Germany and badging RFID
Leader With the messy election of 'Germany's Thatcher', it may look like the restructuring of that economy may finally be underway - with all the attendant pain for those involved with DT, Siemens and other giants. [14 Nov 2005]
France grapples with its image problem
News The French economy, Gaymard points out, is still one of the largest in the world. Gaymard said: "In an economy with 10 per cent unemployment, it is difficult to say you want to make it easier to conduct... [26 May 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Outsourcing and offshoring
Comment And a key outcome has been the rise of the Japanese economy from the devastation of war to First World standard. At a more fundamental level, software is both immature and tough, and the sector has been limping under... [25 Mar 2004]
Meta Group Quarterly: CIOs planning properly
Comment However, by 2006/07, IT salaries will again escalate as the economy improves, putting labour costs at 55-60 per cent of the IT budget. As the economy improves, as predicted by second half of 2004, key IT... [05 Jan 2004]