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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

[17 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

[16 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. Nearly three-quarters of corporate executives see demand for outsourcing increasing over the next three years.

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]

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]

Deploy or Delay?: Converged Networks in the Enterprise

whitepaper Last but not least, in this age of viruses, worms and hackers, executives are keen to discover how convergence can help improve network security. This white paper aims to give executives a firmer footing on which to evaluate convergence.

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]

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]

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, flexibility, objectives

[04 Apr 2007]

Security key concern for VoIP rollouts

News The findings are backed up by research from AT&T and the Economist Intelligence Unit, which also found strong concern over security. The survey questioned 395 global executives from a range of industries.

Tags: voip security, voip

[22 Mar 2007]

War looms over global tech talent

News The Technology Executive Connections - Successful Strategies for Talent Management report was conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit for PwC. The survey of 153 senior executives in technology companies around the globe found that European...

Tags: pwc

[06 Nov 2006]

Banks ignore tech at their peril

News According to a survey carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by BT, technologies such as wireless, RFID and IP networks are not being fully exploited by financial companies. Only 28 per cent of banking executives surveyed...

Tags: banks, crm, wireless, banking

[28 Sep 2006]

Hunt for top talent is boardroom headache

News CEOs spend about 20 per cent of their time in "talent management", with some spending up to half their time on it, according to a white paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and human resources consultancy DDI.

Tags: talent, ceo, boardroom

[08 May 2006]

HR department 'even less loved' than techies

News The report, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, said: "No other function — not even the notoriously unlovable IT department — came close to being this unappreciated. Only the HR department is more unloved than the IT organisation within...

Tags: ceo

[01 Mar 2006]

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