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whitepaper Decision-making is at the core of all business activity, as executives set strategy and manage operations by weighing a vast array of factors to arrive at the desired balance of risk and reward. It is cause for alarm, then, that executives...
[17 May 2008]
Comment The consensus is outsourcing will not be affected by the downturn, because more executives will use it to reduce costs. Exits are particularly important in the current economic climate. In this situation, some companies might opt to bring services...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper In recent years, IT executives and their business peers have also begun to define their interrelationship in terms of the supply and demand model. The model predicts that in a competitive free market, price will function to equalize the quantity...
[19 Mar 2008]
Comment As the mobile industry started its grand annual event, Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona last week a breakdown in the BlackBerry email service meant many thumb-weary executives had an enforced break from their mobile email habit.
[21 Feb 2008]
Round-Up The great man is seen interacting with fellow executives as well as celebrities from music, entertainment, movies and politics. In recent years, or 2007 at least, the show has been overshadowed by Macworld and this year promises to be no exception.
[11 Jan 2008]
Comment Back-office processing activities are not a priority in the thoughts of a bank's business executives. The financial sector is 10 years behind the times in its approach to management - partly because banking systems are supposed to be too...
[02 Jan 2008]
whitepaper In a recent Melcrum survey of corporate executives, 55% were either already using blogs or planning to start within 12 months, 63% were using online video services, with other social media also drawing heavy usage.
[24 Oct 2007]
News The two appointments buck the trend highlighted by a recent poll held at silicon.com's CIO Forum, which found that taking a position with a supplier was the least favourite option for high-level IT executives when considering their next career move.
[17 Oct 2007]
News But Gates and other Microsoft executives are trying to make the case that they are still in the game, despite missing out on recent, key deals and struggling to make a dent in the search market. Despite losing out to Google in a recent high profile...
[09 May 2007]
Leader While the idea of thousands of executives pulling their hair out as their mobile email device of choice for once stops vibrating and flashing is funny to some of us, it shows us all that there is no single answer.
[19 Apr 2007]
Comment Almost 60 per cent of major label executives believe removing DRM from music would encourage users to buy more digital tracks, according to a recent study by Jupiter Research. The company's continued surge in profits over the last couple of years...
[11 Apr 2007]
News Several new executives have set up shop at Dell as the PC maker attempts to recover from problems ranging from poor customer service to market share losses. The company also said that as of today executives and directors have been cut off from...
[30 Mar 2007]
News The council's executives will report to Kagermann. But in recent months, Apotheker had gained ground as a front-runner due to his long tenure with the company and responsibility over a substantially larger portion of it, sources said.
[29 Mar 2007]
News While the PeopleSoft and Siebel acquisitions had product overlap to varying degrees with Oracle's existing business, the Hyperion deal is expected to have little redundancy, Oracle executives said in a conference call with analysts.
[02 Mar 2007]
News The PC manufacturer has recently courted controversy, first with laptops catching fire and then with issues over its allocation of executive share options, which finally resulted in the loss of its chief executive Kevin Rollins and other key...
[01 Mar 2007]
News Several executives have left the company in recent months, including CFO Jim Schneider, who was slated to leave at the end of January. Dell, who returned to the company as chief executive officer last week after the resignation of Kevin Rollins...
[05 Feb 2007]
News Several executives have left the company in recent months, including CFO Jim Schneider, who was slated to leave the company at the end of January. Rollins took over the CEO reins in 2004 after several years spent as president and chief operating...
[01 Feb 2007]
News Boston-Power, however, has an advantage in that Lampe-Onnerud and other executives at the company have worked in the battery industry for years. Richard Shim, an analyst with IDC, said the company's executives have a solid track record but face a...
[20 Dec 2006]
News Executives say it's to make things fair for newer employees. Google plans to start an unorthodox stock options programme in April that will allow employees to sell their vested options in an online auction, the search giant announced late on Tuesday.
[13 Dec 2006]
News In a recent survey of UK business executives, 61 per cent said technology enables new styles of working - with 63 per cent saying technology is the primary enabler of future styles of working. The results are based on responses from 250 board level...
[04 Dec 2006]
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