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Inside Dell: A vendor dossier
Comment From the online sales, to the super smooth manufacturing facilities, to the billionaire boy wonder boss, how does Dell do it? An ex-US Navy officer he doesn't wait for straggling journalists in their protective goggles as he leads them up aisles at... [30 Jan 2003]
Opinion: Something's rotten in the software economy
Comment The UK software industry is in danger of going the way of manufacturing, says Simon Moores - due to over-regulation, compliance costs, skills shortages and the government's lack of a clear policy to support innovation. [28 Sep 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Oracle's 11i under scrutiny, FI's future with Druid, and IT in the mega-merger
Comment Millipore Corp, a $700m manufacturing company in the US, is one of the first customers to adopt Oracle's centralised global ERP roadmap. He is the Manufacturing Business Systems Manager at Millipore and undoubtedly has the inside scoop having had a... [23 Jan 2000]
IT spend: it's not how big it is, it's what you do with it
Comment The amount of money spent on IT in the manufacturing sector is set to outstrip investment in plant and machinery (http://www.silicon.com/a38872 ). At the same time, the research also shows the manufacturing sector is beginning to take ebusiness... [01 Aug 2000]
David Lister
CIO Profile The role carries the title chief architect for RBS' group manufacturing unit, which provides centralised back-office services including IT for the banking group's many brands such as Churchill, Direct Line and NatWest. [11 Jun 2008]
Where is outsourcing heading?
Comment The way manufacturing has become industrialised provides a number of parallels with today's IT industry. For example, the manufacturing of cars has evolved so that suppliers' specialisations are maximised. [05 Dec 2007]
Opinion: Global services' level playing-field
Comment The answer is that a product would need to be manufactured on an extremely small scale for it to not be worth considering an offshore manufacturing plant. Now, as we are used to this global manufacturing scenario, our attention turns to services. [02 May 2007]
The Value Proposition: power, information and the European Union
Comment In the UK, we can see the global market at work, losing thousands of jobs in our home-grown car manufacturing and assembly plants within the last month. Standardisation will have the effect of allowing further globalisation of manufacturing... [31 May 2000]
Environmentally friendly IT. Are you sure?
Comment But picture a programmer sitting at a PC or someone telecommuting or many other uses of technology and they're a world away from 'dirty' manufacturing jobs before the last 30 years, or even plenty of industries as they operate now, directly... [10 Jan 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up It seems a computer - which had clearly been connected to the internet and was involved in the manufacturing process at a third party - was infected with the RavMonE virus, rated as a low risk (though that's not really an acceptable justification... [20 Oct 2006]
Lucent on the ropes
Comment But Gray made up for it in the coming years by building up his company to become the largest electrical manufacturing company in the US, responsible for the production of the first commercial electrical typewriter, telegraph equipment and Thomas... [27 Jul 2001]
Vertical direct procurement e-marketplaces: The next challenge
Comment As direct goods account for the vast majority of most firms' procurement spend, this shift not only offers manufacturing companies competitive advantages but also creates an important new marketplace for technology vendors. [29 Nov 2000]
Minority Report: A greener Apple
Comment An open letter from Jobs entitled 'A Greener Apple' set out the company's green agenda on manufacturing and recycling. Publicity stunts aside, there's been considerable debate about the veracity of Greenpeace's data on Apple's allegedly poor... [23 Aug 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Chinese whispers
Comment A lot of prominence was given to claims of poor quality in Chinese manufacturing. That surely has to be, like the Mattel case, at least as much a matter of the specification of quality controls as an issue about manufacturing. [25 Oct 2007]
The McCue Interview: Dell CIO Randy Mott
Comment It's not quite what you'd expect from a man charged with running the IT infrastructure behind Dell's manufacturing colossus around the globe, and not only running it but applying the same rigorous approach to driving out inefficiencies that... [09 Aug 2005]
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