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- The Bluelight Network: Security Awareness and Business Development - Knowledge Sharing and Coopetition in Practice
- Five years ago, a small group of experts came together with the aim to improve education in information security in Norway. The effort resulted in one bachelor study and one master study. The cooperation developed rapidly into a network that has since expanded to include about 40 members from industry,...
- Tags: Information Security, Education, BlueLight, Network, Knowledge, Administration, Coopetition, Business Development, Workforce Management, Strategy, Security, Human Resources, Management
- White papers 2009-07-24
- Momentum Webcast: Eliminate Frustration With Integrated Business Software (Level 100)
- If all the executive, financial, project and business development managers could easily access real-time data, it could eliminate frustrations by automating workflow and improving operations and decision making. The presenter of this webcast provides an eye-opening demonstration of how integrated software can accomplish this. The presenter shows the integration of...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Software, Financial, Business Software, Webcast, Business Development, Microsoft Corp., Strategic Planning, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance
- Webcasts 2009-06-10
- Your Project News Toolbar 1.0 (Windows)
- Your Project News Browser Tool is the first fully-functional project news search tool that can be downloaded into a browser, allowing users to search all the key news and press information on any project around the world without visiting specific websites. It is the latest technology as a business development...
- Tags: Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2009-03-23
- New motivation for couch potatoes. Take a walk, charge your mobile phone.
- Imagine keeping your mobile phone more or less perpetually charged just by walking out of the house in the morning. Is that a bit of green technology you'd be willing to spring for? Well sometime in mid-to-late 2009, start-up M2E Power says it will team up with...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Motivation, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Social Landlord Frees 50 Per Cent of IT Staff to Work on Business Development
- Home Group, a social housing provider in the U.K., struggled to support its remote workers with messaging services. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Silversands helped Home optimise its multi-domain infrastructure to a single domain based on Microsoft products. It also added standards, processes, and training solutions on a flexible and secure...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Development, Microsoft Corp., Training, Landlord, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Management, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Owner of Online Business Directory Creates Sales & Marketing Materials With SmartDraw
- Tamie Albrecht is director/ business development manager for D-pages.com, an online business directory serving organizations in the United Arab Emirates. She was looking for an easy way to create sales and marketing materials, as well as business forms, proposals, comparison charts, and exhibit plans. Tamie was familiar with programs like...
- Tags: Business Development, SmartDraw, Tamie Albrecht, Strategic Planning, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Management, Sales, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-04-22
- CH2M HILL Optimizes Business Development Performance With New CRM Solution
- CH2M HILL's multiple CRM and home-grown opportunity-tracking systems resulted in diverse, disconnected applications for supporting business development. These islands of data drove redundant data entry and data inconsistency, and could not provide a single, enterprise-level view for managing strategic pursuits/accounts. Management engaged technology research firm Gartner Consulting to discuss CRM...
- Tags: CRM Solution, Business Development, Microsoft Corp., CRM, CH2M HILL, Strategic Planning, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-04-15
- Achieving Integrated Commerce With Salesforce.com and Sterling Multi-Channel Selling
- The more IT systems a business has, the more time, money and resources it takes for a business to operate. Nowadays eCommerce systems and Customer Relationship Management CRM systems have a great deal of valuable process and data overlap when it comes to managing and executing sales, customer management and...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Business, Business Development, Integrated Commerce Solution, Strategic Planning, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Management, Sales
- White papers 2007-08-03
- 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
- In today's business climate, IT organizations need to demonstrate their ability to add value. This white paper from Macehiter Ward-Dutton — an IT advisory firm that specializes in issues of IT-business alignment — shows how IT can contribute to the strategic advantage of the enterprise.
- Tags: Team, Information Technology, IT Service Management, Business Development, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Meriton Networks Case Study: Telecom Ottawa
- Telecom Ottawa is a network services provider based in Ottawa with operations throughout Eastern Ontario. Through its impressive business development efforts, Telecom Ottawa secured a number of new customers who required Ethernet services in a regional area outside of Telecom Ottawa's primary network. The capacity needed for these customers was...
- Tags: Network, NMS, Business Development, Meriton Networks, Telecom Ottawa, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Network Administration
- Case studies 2006-10-05
- 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
- Priority One Plus--Business Development Center 6.0 (Windows)
- The One Person Auto Dealer BDC Business Development Center software creates all the customer communication to make the sales and it reports on everything along the way. The Person who operates the Business Development Center Software pushes a button to start the process each day, and each time a new...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business Development, PrioSoft, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2004-11-01
- 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
Additional Resources
- Larry Augustin's practical revolution at SugarCRM
- Dana, what is the trend in the Open Source community?OS started as a software development and delivery model "for the people by the people", i.e. free use enabled by free contributions. Now free contributions are likely drying out. Companies with paid employees are contributing the most significant part of code....
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Welcome Back, SugarCRM
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Can (and will) Microsoft keep Silverlight compatible across platforms?
- The better question is WHEN will it be better for Microsoft to keep it compatible across platforms, and WHEN or under what conditions might it not be better for MS to NOT keep it compatible across platforms.In other works, it is NOT a question of IF, but, at WHAT TIMES...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Operating systems, .NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
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