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Hewlett-Packard has t aken to measuring everything , even itself, reports The New York Times . Among the things it's measuring is its own supply chain, using a tool it developed called Reven... More >
Business performance management traditionally has been solely an internal thing, while so many aspects of the business have given outsiders access to internal processes. Outsourcing, customer self-se... More >
The lousy economy can put companies in a better negotiating position with their suppliers , but many aren't taking advantage of it, reports thomasnet.com . The piece cites a recent study by ... More >
In commentary on National Post , Peter Foster says the definition of business ethics seems to have changed amid the financial crisis. He writes: Business ethics has become not so much about h... More >
In an article on B Eye Network , Colin White explains that closed-loop business intelligence is more than just a buzzword. As in closed-loop processing, the system feeds information back into... More >
Jenna Boller, in a blog for Page One Public Relations , lays out "Five Things You Need to Know About Social Media Marketing and PR." Though becoming increasingly popular as inexpensive ways... More >
In a piece on IT Knowledge Exchange, David Schneier makes the point that there's a difference between vendor assessment and vendor management. He's writing in the context of the BITS Shared ... More >
In a Forbes piece, Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy , whose company has known plenty of hard times, says this is no time to cut back on innovation. Though companies are trying to squeeze every dollar... More >
Nearly 60 percent of China's chip-manufacturing capacity is unused, according market researcher iSuppli. It's just another indicator of the global glut of chips. The report, according to cell... More >
The Sacramento Bee warns that because the federal stimulus money is being distributed through existing channels, companies with experience in winning those contracts will have an advantage. It advis... More >
Venture capital investments were at their lowest level in 12 years , falling 61 percent to $3 billion in the first quarter, reports Bloomberg in a story pointing to the frozen IPO market. T... More >
Is your business prepared for succession ? That's the question posed in this article from the San Francisco-area North Bay Business Journal . That's been a big topic since Apple CEO Steve J... More >
In a breathtaking announcement, Nokia said its first-quarter profits dropped 90 percent , reports mocoNews.net . Profit was 122 million euros ($161 million), compared with 1.2 billion euros ... More >
Jim Haggard at All About B2B delves into the difference between product master data management and product information management, if there is one. One implies automated processes that provid... More >
Change is always hard and in IT; sometimes it seems even harder. This article in Enterprise Management Quarterly , however, focuses on the benefits of change management to your organization and how ... More >
The problem of putting all the information inside employees' heads into a form the company can use will be the "next big land rush," according to this ZDNet piece . It asks: How do you capture, cata... More >
PC vendors are trying new approaches to make their products more appealing, such as showcasing them amid displays of prom dresses and other girly wares, reports Businessweek . In addition t... More >
The crews of Discovery Channel's reality show "Deadliest Catch" are said to be celebs in Seattle, parent to the Redmond, Wash., suburban home of Microsoft. But it's hard to say what role that plays i... More >
Blind cost-cutting on IT can leave companies weakened and uncompetitive when this economy finally does turn around, writes Michael Krigsman on ZDNet.com . He cites a recent Hackett Group res... More >
While electronic health records are getting so much attention lately, Greg Nelson, CEO of business intelligence services company ThotWave Technologies argues in a piece on B Eye Network , that the... More >
In this economic climate, competitive analysis has to become ongoing, rather than a quarterly or annual pursuit for e-commerce companies, writes Heidi Cohen on ClickZ . She cites three reason... More >
In sizing up the IT market for data warehousing or business intelligence, Gartner’s Magic Quadrants or Forrester’s Waves get pretty boring because they cite the same companies year after year, wr... More >
"Research" in research and development held steady in the fourth quarter of 2008 even as most companies' revenues declined, reports 24/7 Wall St. , citing a Wall Street Journal article that requires... More >
CIOs are in a unique position to help wring savings out of the supply chain , writes Gene Tyndall, executive VP for global services with supply chain services firm Tompkins Associates, in an article... More >
There were no IPOs in the first quarter and none in the previous quarter, the first time on record that's happened, according to the National Venture Capital Association . John Cook at TechFl... More >
On what he calls "a nearly messianic crusade against IT suckage," Hal Pomeranz of Deer Run Associates argues that when IT folks want to run screaming at the mention of change management, it's because... More >
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