company culture
RSS company cultureThe key to keeping staff happy
Comment It does a good a job of capturing the Microsoft culture of 10 years ago. The culture now is very different. According to the Sunday Times, the best company in the UK to work for this year is Asda. Using the information presented by the Sunday Times... [25 Mar 2002]
Microsoft changes M&A strategy with Yahoo! bid
News 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. I frankly don't buy the culture clash angle… Microsoft does not have a single corporate culture anyway," he said. [05 Feb 2008]
Fiorina: Surprised by media focus on gender
News Dealing with macho culture doesn't seem to be throwing Fiorina off her stride. It was a very macho culture kind of culture, they'd thought they'd been taken over by a bunch of wimps and that they were going to run the place and I needed to tell... [20 Nov 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: IT projects should be allowed to fail
Comment A stitch in time saves nine' is a proverb that should resonate within project management, but this culture can only be created if the business encourages it. Ironic as it may sound, by creating a culture that rewards failure, businesses will... [23 Aug 2004]
A start-up by any other name: lastminute troubles
Comment Lastminute's woes indicate the difficulties of doing business in a global environment where your potential consumers not only operate in a different language and a different culture, but also have different regulations protecting them. [13 Mar 2000]
Asia goes global
AS Analysis The next-generation comes in second place on the Agenda Setters list, and it is Chinese, Japanese and Korean youth culture that is driving much of the interest in online activities for this group - such as online social networking and virtual... [25 Sep 2006]
US dot-coms burning cash faster than Europeans
News However, Jari Talvinen, investment director at European venture capital firm CapMan, sees the difference as a result of America's risk taking business culture. He said: "The American mentality accepts failure more easily than European culture does. [02 Oct 2000]
Siemens denies blame for immigration service fiasco
News But some analysts claim that the whole story highlights the culture of blame inherent in the IT industry. Remus Brett, consultant at Datamonitor, said: "There is very much a culture of blame, especially when it comes to public service contracts. [25 Aug 1999]
Brunel University's Business Class: How to turn a mistake into a positive event
Comment Breaking through the blame culture The final reason that mistakes are repeated centres around an organisation's culture. Translated into a business environment, this is turned into a blame culture, creating an environment in which we're trying to... [16 May 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Leadership in the dock, HP surprises and MobilCom's tale
Comment Overwhelming self-confidence brings out another disturbing trait - the growing reluctance to debate or accept contrary views leading to a 'dependency culture'. At the same time a culture of dependency and sycophancy develops. [09 Dec 2002]
European businesses feeling cheery about the future
News To determine the score of the 973 organisations polled, Gartner analysed the performance, culture, investment strategy and customer focus of every company, while taking into account the economy each company operates within. [14 Oct 2002]
UK tech police: Cash-strapped and ineffective
News Speaking at the Computer and Internet Crime Conference in London, DC Tony Noble from Surrey Police Computer Crime Unit said many reported incidents of cybercrime, such as hacking or data theft from within a company, don't get investigated due to... [26 Jan 2005]
Betfair taps Romania for offshore software skills
News He said: "One of the strengths of Betfair is culture and the way we work as a team and we already have a well-oiled machine for setting up offices overseas. It is important for us to maintain control over the technical output, culture and work... [28 Jun 2007]
Scalability White Paper: Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains
White Paper Without growing in every aspect - from sales to knowledge, from profit to culture - a company will eventually lose customers and market share to their competitors, wither and die. That management comes not only from a company's people, but also... [04 Aug 2005]
Webcast: Innovating within a Retail Industry Disrupted by the Web
White Paper CIO of Virgin Entertainment Group, Robert Fort says that risk-taking and innovation are at the heart of his company's culture. Fort is responsible for the switch from analog CD listening stations to digital kiosks in Virgin Megastores where... [25 Oct 2006]
