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- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?
- An organizational structure is all about command and control of subunits - manufacturing, engineering, sales, whatever. Within each such sub-unit IT use will have co-evolved with what they do, and be correspondingly difficult and dangerous to change. The system you use to tie it all together tends, however, to be...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Yahoo inks Walmart.com ink ad pact; Partners with Havas
- Yahoo said Tuesday that it will sell display ads on Walmart.com in a multi-year partnership. Under the deal, Yahoo will use its ad network to be the primary sales force for Walmart.com's online display and video advertising. Walmart.com will also use Yahoo's tools to monitor ad performance...
- Tags: Advertisement, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Fayetteville becomes center of "Green Valley"
- Fayetteville becomes center of "Green Valley"RE: Fayetteville becomes center ofI hope that's included for the one coming to Camden, Arkansas. Brand new Wal-Mart Super Center being built. Looking forward to the boost in the economy here. Could be the start of a much needed change of pace...
- Tags: Fayetteville, Green Valley
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- Fayetteville becomes center of "Green Valley"
- Yes, that Fayetteville. In Arkansas, home of Wal-Mart.* The same Wal-Mart that recently announced it had annual sales of $375-billion. As a nation Wal-Mart would rank right below Switerland in GDP, and ahead of such oil-rich countries as Saudi Arabia and Norway. It's Wal-Mart's...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Arkansas, Fayetteville, Casestack, Transportation, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- All pharmacies will soon be clinics
- The obvious success of in-store clinics at CVS and Wal-Mart has created a stampede to launch nurse-run sites in pharmacies nationwide. (Picture from Dr. Toni Brayer's EverythingHealth blog.) And the stakes are rising fast, with doctors now heading to a strip mall near you. ...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Pharmacy, Health Care, CVS Corp., Rite-Aid, Wal-Mart Clinics, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- iTunes leaps to the top of the charts (updated)
- In an amazing coup, Apple has become the number one retailer of music in the United States according the latest NPD MusicWatch survey. The results, posted on Ars Technica, show the NPD survey data for January 2008: iTunes Store – 19 percent Wal-Mart – 15 percent...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Music Retailer, Retail Company, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Retail, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOSgood ideabut my guess is, they will buy option 3 or 4.The problem is, most people who shop at Wal-Mart for a PC are looking to buy something they are familiar with. I don't think you could convince them...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PC Market, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS
- My blogging colleague Dana Blankenhorn reports that ThinkgOS founder David Lui isn't worried by the Wal-Mart snub. He should be. Here's what Lui had to say: "It sounds like a big story but it's not that big a story. Right off the bat we were telling...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Margin, Linux, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Wal-Mart "snub" no big deal, says ThinkGOS
- Wal-Mart "snub" no big deal, says ThinkGOSHow could you!There you go. You've just destroyed a wonderful example of Linux failing miserably. The wandering souls of Microsoft's devoted legions were just getting warmed up. They were salivating at this grand opportunity to rub salt in this "gaping" wound...
- Tags: Games, Desktops, game, PC, Linux, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Wal-Mart "snub" no big deal, says ThinkGOS
- Reports on the death of the Wal-Mart Linux PC are greatly exaggerated, according to the man selling its operating system. David Liu, founder of ThinkGOS, whose Linux powers the Everex "Linux PC" which Wal-Mart has dropped from its stores, told ZDNet the move was expected, a function of...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Margin, Return Rate, Desktops, Linux, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Wal-Mart ends Linux trials: "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for"
- Wal-Mart ends Linux trials: "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for"Not true[i]At the risk of sounding stereotypically snobbish, I think it says more about the WalMart demographic than a computer with Linux pre-installed.[/i]One of the common claims by the Linux crowd here is that Linux is now so...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Wal-Mart ends Linux trials: "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for"
- The Wal-Mart chain has now officially ended sales of the Green gPC Linux systems in its stores. "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for," said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien. That pretty much says it all really. A $200 PC with pretty much everything you...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Digital downloads linked to HD disc format war?
- Digital downloads linked to HD disc format war?RegardlessRegardless of what Walmart wants or doesnt want to happen, digital downloads is available and the ability to watch movies and tv shows via the internet will change the way we all view our favorite movies and shows.I already watch all my movies...
- Tags: INTERNET, Consumer electronics, Broadband Internet, Optical Disk, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., digital download, DVD, hard drive, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Digital downloads linked to HD disc format war?
- As everyone already knows, the HD disc format war is over, resolved in true domino fashion by Warner Brothers' decision to back Blu-ray exclusively. Most of the studios in the HD DVD camp have now agreed to back Blu-ray, particularly now that Toshiba has announced it will cease pushing the...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Internet, HD-DVD, Movie, Disc, Blu-ray, Studio, HD, DVD Business, Sales Strategy, Hd Dvd, Sales Force Management, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Top US music retailers: Wal-Mart, Apple
- Apple announced that iTunes is now the #2 music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the data from the NPD Group. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 mln iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over 4 bln songs, with 20 mln songs sold on...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Music Retailer, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Retail, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Toshiba delivers its Betamax address
- Toshiba officially dropped its plans for HD DVD Tuesday after Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Netflix and a parade of others abandoned the high-definition video format for Sony's Blu-ray. The statement indicates the obvious--HD DVD was doomed. The writing on the wall has been there for a while with...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Sony Betamax, HD-DVD, Statement, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- IBM on Corporate Social Responsibility: Collaboration, Integration and NGO Foot Soldiers
- Corporate responsibility at IBM is a class act so high expectations then when the IBM Institute for Business Value this week came out with a piece on CSR: Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility. Dazzling stuff but one or two clangers as well. IBM...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Collaboration, Revolution, Business, IBM Corp., Integration, NGO, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- One reason for HD DVD owners to forgive Netflix
- One reason for HD DVD owners to forgive NetflixIs this the nail in the coffin?I know there are dual players out there, so no worries. But the question remains.. is this the nail in the coffin?Blockbuster and Netflix only support blu-ray now. Walmart seems to only sell blu-ray...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Blu-ray, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., HD-DVD, coffin, NetFlix Inc., Warner
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Wal-Mart opens video rental door for Apple
- Wal-Mart opens video rental door for AppleWhose is going to support the bandwidth ...requirements for GOOD QUALITY video ??RE: Wal-Mart opens video rental door for AppleSpelling boo-boo in the last paragraph, you have lightening where you meant lightning.First and foremost, it is not Apple's goal to become the movie rental...
- Tags: Digital media, Apple Inc., video rental door, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- Wal-Mart opens video rental door for Apple
- Wal-Mart canceled their not-even-a-year-old movie download service on 21 December leaving open a giant door for Apple to enter at Macworld Expo just 13 days aways. In a statement to Reuters the retail giant attributed the decision to a technology problem: Wal-Mart shut down the download site after Hewlett...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Movie, Apple Inc., Video, Apple iTunes, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
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