decision making in news
Old economy urged to adopt quick decision-making or die
News But conversely, dot-coms will need to learn execution skills from the old economy if they are to survive. At a SAP roundtable debate in London yesterday, business leaders concluded traditional companies need one or two individuals who will champion... [23 Nov 2000]
Cost least important factor in spend on IT
News Cost is not the main factor in IT decision-making - on the contrary, it could well be the least important. Vile added that companies must go through a range of decision-making before such a "tactical end game part of the whole process" and the... [17 Nov 2003]
Poor quality data is biggest CIO headache
News Poor quality and duplicated data is leading to bad decision-making and undermining costly investment in business intelligence projects, according to industry experts. Business intelligence software allows organisations to pull together information... [04 May 2006]
Survey links poor information to stress
News The report by Informix Software, states that sixty per cent of decision-makers are not confident that they will always have accurate information when making critical business decisions. An Enquiry into Decision-Making in a Fast-Moving World.looked... [07 Sep 1999]
Unions to get more say in PFI process
News Unions will be allowed to put forward comments about bidders during the decision making process. However, they will not be given any decision making powers. Unions are to be given more say in Private Finance Initiative (PFI) awards, the UK... [22 Oct 1998]
IT chiefs "pressured" into making mistakes
News Despite this, four out of five managers in the IT industry are confident about their own decision-making abilities. IT chiefs should not be too scared of making the wrong decision occasionally, though. [18 Nov 2005]
Intel swings jobs axe on 1,000
News Chief executive Paul Otellini told employees in a memo sent out on Thursday: "This step is important because it addresses a key problem we've found in our efficiency analysis: slow and ineffective decision-making, resulting, in part, from too many... [14 Jul 2006]
OOXML row continues
News The UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) said on Thursday that the British Standards Institution's controversial decision to vote for approval of OOXML in a recent International Organization for Standardization ballot followed a flawed... [02 May 2008]
Kelly pushes for sex-offender database overhaul
News In a statement to parliament today, Kelly said: "I will review urgently the decision-making process surrounding such cases and the policy implications. In particular, how the closest possible alignment can be secured between List 99; the Sex... [13 Jan 2006]
Online shoppers get savvy in run-up to Xmas
News A separate survey has pinpointed a key emerging factor in consumers' online decision-making process. The vast majority (86 per cent) of online consumers suffer some sort of difficulty in making their purchase. [05 Nov 2007]
CIO priorities change in 2004
News However, Gartner pointed out that in most cases they are not included in the BPO decision-making process, as suppliers tend to go directly to executives in business units for those deals. However, more than 40 per cent of those polled said they... [11 Mar 2004]
Watchdog gets more than 1,000 FoI complaints
News These include being proactive, anticipating likely requests and making each decision on its own merit without the fear of setting a precedent. The IC has issued decision notices on just 19 of these although many have been resolved informally. [13 Jul 2005]
Intel revamps its upper echelons
News Dean McCarron, an analyst with Mercury Research, said: "Simply put, there will be fewer people making decisions," with a more concentrated organisational structure and more coherent decision-making. The change "will speed up our decision-making in... [20 Jul 2006]
Gates speaks out on court's decision
News However, we'll be making a review of our licensing provisions in light of today's decision. The world's richest man breathed a very public sigh of relief last night following the appeal court's decision to throw out many of the distric court's... [29 Jun 2001]
Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'
News Women are especially under-represented at senior decision-making level in IT - EC analysis conducted in October last year of 150 European companies in the telecoms sector found the average percentage of women on boards of directors was just six... [07 Mar 2008]
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