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The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?
Comment The sad thing about huge mergers and acquisitions is that it is well known that they destroy economic value. Microsoft is no exception and its bid for Yahoo! just emphasises its route to success, argues Martin Brampton. [20 Feb 2008]
The McCue Interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment Health and beauty chain Boots has become one of the most familiar names on UK high streets - a long way from the small herbal remedy shop it started out as under Sir Jesse Boot back in 1871. More recently the company has been facing fierce... [25 Apr 2007]
The Bloor Perspective: Cyber warfare, call centre futures and M&A today
Comment Back in the not too distant past, mergers and acquisitions were used to gain market share, and move into new territories and different sectors of a market. That's not to say that mergers and acquisitions don't work - they do, it's just important... [17 Feb 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Conflicting messages
Comment Mergers have driven the number of firms down to a level where it is often hard to find a major auditor who does not have a conflict of interest. There is a bifurcation taking place within companies clamouring over conflicting ideas of best practice. [22 Nov 2005]
Devil's Advocate: You and Microsoft licensing - who's the customer?
Comment Local purchasing, mergers or acquisitions are just a few of the factors that can easily distort the numbers. Licensing is a subject close to the hearts of most IT departments. Martin Brampton asks what, if anything, can be negotiated with Microsoft? [17 Sep 2002]
Model Management: dot-coms rise from the ashes
Comment Mergers and acquisitions in the internet sector have also been on the rise this year. Something rather strange is happening in the online world. Dot-coms are starting to deliver on their promises of profitability. [21 Aug 2001]
Model Management: The success and succession of GE's Jack Welch
Comment Mergers are already difficult enough. Has Jack Welch, CEO of GE and Fortune magazine's 'Manager of the Century', pulled it off once again? Or could the last act of a remarkable career go disastrously wrong? [05 Dec 2000]
The Value Proposition: IT and the utopian fallacy
Comment The shake-out of the dot-coms, mergers of financial organisations and increasing dominance of global megaliths will increase this concentration of wealth. For the small number of entrepreneurs who have managed to make a quick buck out of the dot... [05 Apr 2000]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero-sum game
Comment If they continue to follow the Western model, they can expect: rapid growth followed by competitive pressures to continually cut costs; efficiency drives; process re-engineering; consolidation, mergers and acquisitions. [18 Jul 2006]
Butler on: Enterprise portals - still de rigueur
Comment Mergers and acquisitions by organisations have increased the heterogeneous nature of data centres. Three years ago, every application with a piece of HTML code was labelled by its developer, or vendor, as a portal. [24 Mar 2004]
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