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Aligning IT and the Business: An In-Depth Look at Scoring, Selecting and Scheduling the Project Portfolio

Making the right investment decision is the difference between business success and failure. Senior executives must seek tools to help balance efficiency, effectiveness, cost, and growth in concert with new investments. The BEN Alignment Engine allows the enterprise, presented with a choice of portfolio items, to hold the appropriate amount...

Tags: Information Technology, Business Engine Corp., BEN Alignment Engine, Productivity, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management

White papers 2005-12-01

BEN Drives R&D Portfolio Governance at Delphi Electronics & Safety

Delphi Electronics & Safety, a subsidiary of Delphi Corporation, supplies vehicle electronics and safety products for mobile applications. The team's core business objective was to marry systems and processes so the organization could manage its business by project and product line. Given this background, the team's major challenges were to...

Tags: R&D, Borland Delphi, Electronics, Business Engine Corp., Programming Languages, Development Tools, Product Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing

Case studies

Business Engine Case Study: Automotive Company

Owned by a Euro 2.0 billion (US$1.8 billion) company, based in Munich, Germany, this automotive company manufactures air brake and filtration components for heavy-duty trucks, tractors, trailers, buses, and other commercial vehicles in North America. The recent slowdown in the heavy-duty truck market has increased pressures to cost effectively develop...

Tags: Business Engine Corp., Automotive Company, Manufacturing

Case studies

Additional Resources

Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service

Ought to be interestingSilverlight is the means by which Netflix streams their on-demand content. I cannot help but wonder if MS cut a deal with the new Blockbuster service.Does MS support "open internet", or do they want us to pay for itDoes MS support "open internet", or do they want...

Tags: cloud computing, Strategy, Media Streaming, Microsoft Silverlight, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Corp., open-Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"

While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"Did not many people sayincluding the creator of wikipedia (?) that much of the material and sublect matter retained within wikipedia is not to be regarded as 100 percent factual?RE: While I'm away...I kind of liked that Encarta was at least somewhat verified as factual. ...

Tags: Wiki, Keyword Searches, Encarta.com, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Microsoft ready to launch beta of its free Morro antivirus offering

Microsoft ready to launch beta of its free Morro antivirus offeringSimplicityNifty! (Weird how this had cross my mind this morning after we finished our migration to SBS 2008 and suddenly there's a Reuters article today.)Really, all I would like to see is something like how Windows Defender is today--remarkably silent,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Morro antiviru, Microsoft Ready, Google Inc., Morro, beta, Symantec Corp., antivirus

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Microsoft: Plotting an acquisition or joint venture?

Microsoft last week registered a limited liability company LLC in Delaware stoking speculation that it is planning an acquisition or joint venture. If true Microsoft may be planning a little bit more than a demo of its search engine and a big ad campaign to promote it.  ...

Tags: Acquisition, Search Engine, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Katherine Egbert, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Search, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-26

News to know: RSA, AMD; Yahoo; Windows 8; $200 'Mac'

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. RSA Conference: Tom Foremski: A conversation with Check Point's Gil Schwed Symantec CEO: The future of security [video] RSA chief calls for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, RSA Security Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Seven big tech acquisitions to watch for in 2009

Seven big tech acquisitions to watch for in 2009Oh pleaseApple buy Adobe? They would never deplete their cash that much. Adobe would be very expensive. And as for the comment about Adobe certainly selling more than half to Windows users, that's barely true, but not nearly as much as people...

Tags: Mainframes, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., big tech acquisition, tech acquisition

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

Failure in Silicon Valley and the guild of entrepreneurs

Here is the second part of my conversation with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman. The first part is here: How will the recession affect Silicon Valley? Mr Coleman is optimistic about Silicon Valley's long term prospects but he is pessimistic about the current situation. "These days...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-05

How Microsoft blew the keyword business; And how you still can't count Redmond out

How Microsoft blew the keyword business; And how you still can't count Redmond outGoogle's search is just plain better.MS and Yahoo can do what they want. But until they have a search engine that can compete with Google's they aren't going anywhere.I personally hate having only one really good...

Tags: keyword business, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...

Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we're afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Network Neutrality & Google's Openness Before The FCC

Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies’ networks are open equally to all Internet services. Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to networks in which Google is involved. On Friday, the Commission takes up the question of whether...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Network, Comcast Corp., Clearwire Corp., Network Neutrality, Internet, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-30

News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Microhoo update: Culture clash, Alibaba and board room politics

With the tech world on holiday in the U.S. for President's Day, the fate of Yahoo still hangs in the balance. That's doesn't mean the blogosphere has been taking a vacation from the topic. In the NYT, John Markoff and Matt Richtel write about the culture clash...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Article, Microsoft Corp., Battleground, Alibaba Group, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-18

Microsoft+to+become+Micro-ad%3F

Microsoft+to+become+Micro-ad%3FVery, very risky acquisition. Just goes to show you how desperate MS is.This is a complete culture miss-match.The information superhighway......is getting cluttered with billboards. And it ain't pretty.I don't see the wisdom. Should buy Amazon.I could see a partnership revenue sharing with Yahoo to try to slow Google down, but...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

ComScore: Baidu beats Microsoft properties in worldwide search

Using its new qSearch 2.0 method of computation, ComScore has released its worldwide search-activity stats for August. Microsoft is No. 4 in the latest standings. (Just in case you were confused, as I was: This is not the Comscore Media Metrix (audience-measurement) Web traffic data. It seems...

Tags: Baidu.com Inc., ComScore Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-10

U.S. defends Microsoft remedy at international meet

U.S. defends Microsoft remedy at international meetMicrosoft is a beacon to the world...The rest of the free world should look to Microsoft as a beacon of hope and a bastion of innovation. Why is it then that Europe continues to throw mud in the face of this benevolent and most...

Tags: Corporate law, NETWORKING, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Barnett

Discussion threads 2007-09-29