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Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tune in to the customer
Comment They renamed the sales process an 'evaluation process' and ran seminars for those prospective customers who were planning an evaluation within the next 6 months. By the time the prospective customers' evaluation started, the steps dictated by the... [25 Jun 2004]
The Naked CIO: Animal farm
Comment I have begun more rigorous costing and evaluation of development benefits. Greater visibility of development projects, evaluation and measurement of estimates, as well as very clearly stated expectations. [25 Mar 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Choose the right vendor
Comment Try this evaluation process outlined by Quocirca's Clive Longbottom. Don't want your company to get stuck with an IT vendor that will disappoint you later on? In Quocirca, we see a lot of companies sitting on technologies chosen for all the right... [29 Nov 2004]
Strangling the virus; the big number change, and big banker gains.
Comment In an attempt to minimise the problems caused by global email viruses, DERA - the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency - has come up with a simple but effective approach to combating these attacks. [30 Apr 2001]
3G - now is not the time to give up
Comment But a pull-no-punches note from an analyst house has, over the past few days, demanded a re-evaluation of the business case for 3G mobile services. Should we be preparing a eulogy for 3G? If that's what you're looking for, you've come to the wrong... [19 Aug 2002]
Inside offshoring: India's telecoms infrastructure
Comment More often than not, it is a primary reason not to offshore, although this evaluation can be viewed as an aspect of risk management, covered elsewhere in this series of articles. Central to most offshoring arrangements or, lest we forget, reasons... [16 Jun 2004]
Serialisation: eBoys - Part 1 - Go Big or Go Home
Comment The venture guy's job is to refine his powers of evaluation, to hone the ability to see the outline of one good idea among the thousand brought in by entrepreneurs that are too small or me-too. This week silicon.com is serialising eBoys, a fly-on... [08 Apr 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: The CSO, Dell and Cisco at home
Comment Regulatory and operational requirements set some of these priorities but judgement and evaluation of the requirements of the business will determine where the organisation focuses its investment and effort in security and, critically, reduction in... [31 Mar 2003]
'My ERP supplier has been acquired - now what?'
Comment It is often difficult to differentiate one from the other during the evaluation phase - so a lot of effort could be expended for little business benefit. Quocirca's Sharon Crawford explains how to decide whether to jump ship to a new vendor or stay... [05 Feb 2007]
Criminal IT: There's no cure-all for information security
Comment These costs need to be justified, based on the expected exposure of those assets to different forms of risk, an evaluation of how likely or unlikely the risk might be in practice, and an assessment of how much the measures can do to protect those... [22 Jun 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Gloomy analysts?
Comment Unfortunately, under critical evaluation, all too many developments turn out to have provided only marginal benefits. But could we be teetering on the edge of something altogether much worse? Martin Brampton asks the questions. [28 Jan 2003]
Outsourcing success means understanding your business
Comment The organisational strategy will also produce a policy for the evaluation and selection of potential partners, along with a set of internal guidelines to help you manage the relationship. If you're going to outsource a business process, you should... [21 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Sobering times for IT
Comment After all, it seems that Britain's top companies run their IT with a similar lack of critical evaluation. Everyone knew that IT was an important part of the growth dynamic. Now, we are all in sober mood and serious questions are being asked. [02 Oct 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Perot on a mission in London
Comment The internet evaluation firm has tested the websites run by the main parties and judged Labour a loser in terms of availability and speed of response. He went on to found computer services company EDS, which was famously run along military lines... [01 Jun 2001]
Brampton Factor: You call this an information society?
Comment It is not an entirely reliable method of evaluation for various, fairly obvious reasons. Martin Brampton debunks the idea that we live in an information society - and even if we did, he says, it wouldn't provide all the benefits everyone keeps... [20 Jun 2006]
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