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The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation
Comment Even within a community, co-operation is somewhat restricted. Unfortunately, this lack of co-operation, endemic in the general run of open source projects, is one of the factors that leads to inefficiency and waste. [03 Apr 2008]
Devil's Advocate: The government source
Comment The vocal group is likely to contain the seeds of dissent that may easily become an obstacle to full co-operation. Martin Brampton as been looking at the co-operation that's going on. If open source is to make commercial inroads it needs a few... [01 Oct 2002]
What if... (The Bonus Christmas Epilogue)
Comment Every year, millions of them drift away as they lose their belief in Santa's operation. Santa will now be helping Tesco.com deliver last minute orders to customers who were not quick enough to secure a pre-Christmas delivery slot through the normal... [24 Dec 2002]
The Director’s Cut: This is how you work together properly
Comment In times of apparent uncertainty we must form trusted relationships with external partners around a shared vision, build stronger internal cross-departmental co-operation and ensure our own teams in IT work well together. [30 Jul 2003]
News analysis: Michael Dell departing
Comment Dell, a multibillionaire and the founder of the PC company of the same name, transformed a dorm room operation at the University of Texas to one of the world's largest corporations in part by focusing on concrete issues - such as improving... [05 Mar 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.09.05
Round-Up But unless Amazon repeats the mistake - fair's fair - we're not holding that against the pioneering retailer (which is named after the longest river in south America but based in the largest warehouse in Milton Keynes), which threw open its doors... [02 Sep 2005]
Outsourcing: What every company should know - before picking up that phone
Comment Outsourcers’ core competence is the development of standard repeatable processes for handling day-to-day operation. It was 1989 when Kodak Eastman Corporation amazed the business world with its decision to outsource its entire IT operation. [22 Apr 2003]
Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain
Comment What our strategy tends to be is unless it is something we think is going to be a value-add operation such as ordering of stock into stores we try and use an off-the-shelf type solution. Cobain: "We start with the customers at the tills so... [25 Sep 2007]
Brunel University’s Business Class: Business content
Comment It will mark a break with tradition, as previously businesses have concentrated solely on improving operation - this is limiting in the extreme. Changing the focus is important if we are to improve the business alongside its operation. [20 Jan 2004]
Leader: Will Dell's lesson lessen Indian interest?
Leader Putting aside the fact that 're-onshoring' is an incredibly ugly phrase - there is no evidence to suggest it will benefit the business more than persevering with an Indian operation would. Sheer numbers meant the operation had outgrown the... [31 Mar 2004]
Opinion: Policing the internet will take more than law
Comment Campaigners point to child pornography and say the way police have carried out Operation Ore proves we can deal with it. And even with good international co-operation the authorities can only make limited progress if there is a lack of sufficient... [20 Sep 2005]
Mind your language: Is English holding back ecommerce?
Comment A successful online sales operation is a personalised experience, according to Timo Saarinen, professor of ecommerce at Helsinki Business School. He said redesigning a database - originally written for just English but which later needs to... [11 Aug 2000]
What if... Santa believed everything vendors told him?
Comment Santa's operation had struggled to handle the volumes, however, so he promised himself he would make some changes for the following year. Too right," said Santa then sat back and listened in wonder about how a fully integrated end-to-end ebusiness... [19 Dec 2001]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Wireless everything
Comment But there are now devices and modes of operation that threaten this approach for the future. It is not unusual to install a wireless LAN (802.11 Wi-Fi) and achieve 'right first time' operation. It is now used in the latest generations of mobile... [16 Jan 2003]
Inside Amazon.co.uk: More than just a boy wizard
Comment But for all the automation and supply chain management there is also some serious leg work which goes into running the Amazon.co.uk operation smoothly. The stock balancing operation around Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince worked well enough... [31 Aug 2005]
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