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Top Tips for Getting the Most Out of Distributed Work: Studies show that empowering employees to work anytime and anywhere increases their productivity. In addition, providing flexible work options like working from home can help small and mid-size companies compete for top talent with their large-enterprise counterparts. In fact, a distributed work plan provides many benefits...; Tags: Human Resources, Digital Media, Benefits, Workforce Management, Citrix Systems Inc., Webcast, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, benefit, business case, business development, mobile, on-demand, product marketing, talent, workforce; Webcasts 2007-10-23
IBM Business Partner Expects to Increase Revenue 25 Percent With Microsoft Software: In order to win more opportunities, GIS Gesellschaft fur InformationsSysteme mbH decided to broaden its offerings by adding Microsoft Dynamics CRM to its existing Lotus Notes - based solutions and engaging with the Microsoft Partner Program. With the broad functionality provided by Microsoft CRM and the technical and business development...; Tags: Revenue, Business Development, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., GIS, Strategic Planning, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Marketing; Case studies 2007-06-01
Australian Finance Group Grows Loan Portfolio to A$35 Billion in Five Years: In 2001, Australian Finance Group (AFG) developed a five-year strategy to implement a new, integrated technology platform to help it win a bigger share of the booming Australian residential mortgage market. With brokers playing a major role in facilitating housing loans, a key objective was to develop a tool for...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Broker, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Sales Strategy, Mortgages, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Management, Sales, Finance, Capital Structures; Case studies 2007-05-01
The New Face of IT Service Management: Aligning Business, Development and Operations Teams for Strategic Advantage: Research by Macehiter Ward-Dutton shows that a lack of trust in IT's ability to deliver business value is one of the biggest hurdles that enterprises face in bringing IT and business closer together. In today's business and technology environments - where expectations of IT are higher, but where change,...; Tags: Team, Information Technology, IT Service Management, Business Development, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-04-01
Mark Cuban on user generated content: Bad for ads, great for (my) free biz dev: Mark Cuban said a lot more than beware YouTube “morons” at his Advertising Week keynote last week in New York City, I know because I was there.I asked Cuban if his inflammatory anti YouTube commentary was designed to enhance the value of his own content businesses, as I recount in...; Tags: HDNet, Landmark, Landmark Theatres, Mark Cuban; Blog posts 2006-10-03

Dan'l Lewin: Leading Microsoft Emerging Business Development: Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, interacts with a worldwide VC network to surface and nurture emerging venture-capital-backed technology start-ups with the potential to be the “next big things” extending the Microsoft platform, a $10 billion business, and growing.I spoke with Lewin to discuss...; Tags: Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2006-06-27
Project Management & Business Development Integrating Strategy, Structure, Processes and Projects: The objective of this paper is to provide insight into business development with relation to the make-up of strategy, structure, processes and projects as applied to the modern organisation. Research was done on the theory of how these aspects exist, are managed and implemented individually within the organisation. The project...; Tags: Primedia Inc., Business Development, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Strategic Planning, It Operations, It service Management, Management; White papers 2005-03-26
Developing the Technology Companies of Tomorrow and Creating a Global Footprint for New Ventures: The National Software Centre (NSC) in Cork is fostering the development of innovative, knowledge-intensive companies in Ireland by providing companies with access to a range of business expertise and business development programs. Over time NSC saw how a shortage of suitable office space and infrastructure was impacting small start-ups. To...; Tags: Telephony, Nortel Networks Corp., Business Development, Strategic Planning, VOIP, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Management, Networking; Case studies
Creating and Justifying Intellectual Capital Value: Entrepreneurial Networking for Business Development on the WAP Protocol: The Telecom firm was established in 1990 in the Business & Science Park, the industry park opposite the campus. This case study of entrepreneurial networking using the WAP protocol - 'the WAP Project' - is part of a larger University-Industry-Interaction programme (UII) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands,...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Business Development, WAP, Entrepreneurship, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Case studies
Not-for-Profit Boosts Sales Prospects by 25 Percent, Gains Better Business Insight: The Business Development Board (BDB) of Palm Beach County is a private, not-for-profit corporation that serves as the county's official economic development organization. Since 1993, more than 225 company relocations and expansions assisted by the BDB resulted in the creation of more than 22,000 jobs and added in excess of...; Tags: Business Development, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management; Case studies
Linfox Gets Closer to Customers and Sharpens Business Development With 'One Click' CRM: Following a major acquisition in 2003, transportation and supply chain management leader, Linfox, practically doubled its customer base overnight. With vital information about customer contacts and business development opportunities dispersed throughout many internal systems, Linfox needed to aggregate its intelligence to improve its customer relationship management. Using Microsoft Business Solutions...; Tags: Customer, Business Development, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Linfox, Strategic Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Marketing, Software; Case studies

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To Catch a Thief: To Catch a Thief To catch a thief ... the high-tech way. Somone broke into Kait Dupalga's apartment and stole TVs, iPods, a set of car rims – and Kate's Mac laptop. The big break in the case came when a friend of...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mr., Friend, Photograph, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?: Obviously, Microsoft has a significant interest in making sure that users of the new breed of netbooks and MIDs hitting the market don't get too comfortable using Linux. Many manufacturers have taken to installing various flavors of Linux on these devices to minimize footprint, improve performance, and reduce costs...; Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Corp., ULPC, Negroponte, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?: "What is this Windows Live Mesh? It's a way to synchronize files." Joel Spolsky -- in classic Joel Spolsky style -- takes on Microsoft (but Google is also on his "radar") to task for fueling a round of hype around the whole notion of Cloud Computing....; Tags: Hype, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May: Mozilla now expects Firefox 3 RC1 will be ready to go in late May. RC1 was originally planned to be released last month but several bugs have arisen during the final phase of development that needed to be addressed, including problems with the new Places bookmarking feature, themes UI and...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox Team, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Hosted software development: an emerging market [interview and podcast]: Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service (SaaS) development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...; Tags: Software, Podcast, Environment, Emerging Market, Workflow, Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Informatica is on the block say senior sources: I have heard from two senior sources in the software industry that Informatica [INFA] is on the block and it has approached Oracle [ORCL]. I don't know what the possible acquisition price would be or any further details. Informatica's share price closed at $16.45 on Friday May 9. It's...; Tags: Informatica, Oracle Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day?: What is event processing and how could it make a difference? Here is one example of where it could take us: Scientists are talking about the possibility of an in-body network that could detect heart attacks or diabetic collapses and alert emergency services. A typical company deals...; Tags: Event, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-11
A new career: isotope designer: According to a Michigan State University (MSU) news release, 'Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier,' nuclear physicists can now start a new career as isotope designers. These scientists can build specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. The lead researcher says this approach...; Tags: Michigan State University, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Professional Development, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Career, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-10
VCs put big sums into SaaS: VCs put big sums into SaaSWhat else would software investors invest in?We still see high VC/investor interest FWIW. At the end of the day, if you are a VC in the software (esp. business software) vertical, what is there better to invest in than SaaS?RE: VCs put big sums...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, big sum; Discussion threads 2008-05-09