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The way you present your IT budget can help or hurt the company's bottom line, reports CIO.com . It says: Nothing is more disheartening to a major investor or internal business head than to... More >
The U.S. Army is preparing training in knowledge management to spread the discipline across the Army, reports The Fort Leavenworth Lamp . It quotes Gen. Martin Dempsey, Training and Doctrin... More >
This piece in Lawyers Weekly notes a rise in lawyers dedicated to knowledge management within busy firms. It says they compile legal precedents, annotate contracts, prepare research memos, popula... More >
Despite all the belt-tightening forced on them by the recession, many IT organizations plan to increase spending on virtualization, cloud computing and other tools to drive business efficiency, accor... More >
Recent research supports the idea that if you want to be bought out by a larger company, it's a good idea to locate your own company nearby . But a study from Harvard Business School suggests... More >
Apple's employees are often as surprised by new products as everyone else, reports The New York Times in an article on the culture of secrecy at the company. While the rest of the world fi... More >
Patrick Connaughton, senior analyst at Forrester Research, in an ITWorld article addresses how to choose a vendor management system when so many appear to have similar features. He recomme... More >
Gartner's David McCoy writes that the term "business process automation" seems to have been replaced with "business process management," a term he finds means too many different things to too many... More >
San Diego communications industry group CommNexus and Leap Wireless are teaming up to create an incubator to develop communications technologies , or "the next Qualcomm," according to the San Die... More >
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been generating a lot of buzz with the Kindle DX and his appearance at the Wired Disruptive by Design event in New York. Om Malik at GigaOm , however, chose to p... More >
John Cook at TechFlash posed the question, "Where would you want to start a company?" building on Tony Wright's blog, "Should You Move Your Startup to the Valley?" One of the points from ... More >
Eric Blue's Blog looks at 15 tools for visual knowledge management. He writes that the traditional features -- storage, search, contacts, calendaring, etc.: ... don’t offer too much to the mo... More >
Though there's some debate over the importance of a detailed business plan in securing venture funding, Robert Ochtel's Blog presses the importance of competitive analysis . The blog helps ... More >
vnunet.com echoes the advice of IT Business Edge's Dennis Byron to use all your car-buying haggling skills to get the best deals on enterprise software. Actually, the vnunet piece notes tha... More >
The Small Business Administration will be handling a federal loan program to help companies weather the economic storm. Called "America's Recovery Capital," ARC loans can provide up to $35,000... More >
The Global Language Monitor , an Austin, Texas-based Web site that uses a mathematical formula to track word use declared "Web 2.0" the millionth word in the English language, reports Techtree.com ... More >
Based on a survey of 900 CIOs, Gartner reports that 42 percent of companies cut their IT budgets in the first quarter. The research puts the decline at 4.7 percent, near 2007 IT spending levels, ac... More >
Most companies are unaware of the branding opportunities that would come with the liberalization of Internet domain names next year, reports Reuters . Said Joe White, chief operating office... More >
Twitter isn't just changing the way we communicate, it's changing the way we innovate , according to blogger Umair Haque at Harvard Business Publishing . He says the 21st century economy de... More >
This recession is less about cutting the IT budget than completely rethinking the IT budget so that more goes toward driving business, according to InformationWeek . VP and Editor in Chief ... More >
Intel has updated a game called " IT Manager III: Unseen Forces," in which you play the IT manager in a small company with global ambitions. You have to keep the servers and people working (soun... More >
Xerox has created a psychological disorder called “Information Overload Syndrome,” or IOS, in an attempt to get people to think of Xerox as a company that can help them manage work, rather than ju... More >
Internet advertising revenue dropped 5 percent in the first quarter of 2009, with spending in the United States at $5.5 billion, compared with $5.8 billion in the 2008 quarter, according to figures ... More >
Greg Gianforte, CEO of RightNow Technologies outlines "7 Great Reasons Not To Take VC Money" in an article on SiliconValleyWatcher . Among them: It gives you a second set of masters ... More >
Now Digg's going to let people vote on advertisements just like they do on news, reports PCWorld.com . The more people approve it, the less the advertiser will be charged; the inverse is true of a... More >
No surprises there, but a report by The Milken Institute ranks Silicon Valley as the nation's top spot for tech. Silicon Valley's been taking some heat of late, but the report says it has "... More >
Speakers focused on the importance of the people in startups' success at Business Insider’s Startup 2009 conference in New York, reports The Wall Street Journal . David Packman, a partne... More >
Failure to raise enough money doesn't always spell the end for startups, according to research at North Carolina State University and the University of Oklahoma. The study of 79 underfunded companies... More >
More small and midsize businesses in Australia are blocking social-networking sites , reports Computerworld Australia . The story says bans increased fourfold between June 2008 and April 200... More >
Wells Fargo made business process management work by getting the affected business units to take ownership of it while the tech folks provided support, reports CIO.com . In fact, the story ... More >
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