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Janssen-Cilag SpA Advances Business Strategy With Flexible Business Intelligence Solution: Janssen-Cilag wanted to expand business intelligence capabilities to support business strategies and integrate multiple company functions in a single system, including sales and marketing, credit collection, medical direction, and product managers - ensuring that each function has a customized vision of the company's data resources. The challenge was to integrate...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Strategy, Company Function, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Sales; Case studies 2008-05-01
Business Resiliency: Making Risk and Recovery a Major Component of Business Strategy: Business resiliency may be defined as all the measures that a company can take to make sure the business runs smoothly after a disaster or other disruptive event. Within a large enterprise, this can include both the crisis management and the business continuity functions. Business resiliency focuses primarily on maintaining...; Tags: Recovery, Business Strategy, Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, It Services; White papers 2007-09-01
Matching Technology to Business Strategy: VHA, based in Texas, is a privately owned health care provider. In the last five years, the health care provider alliance industry has become increasingly competitive. From its 18 offices around the country. The business needed to become more agile, to reduce operational complexity and costs in order to compete...; Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Health Care, Business Strategy, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Case studies 2007-06-01
Tibco and why IT really does matter again: I really should spend more time with my sponsors of SVW. I spent most of Tuesday at Tibcos user conference, catching up with the the companys business strategy team and having some great conversations, and thinking I really should spend more time with my sponsors. Tibco, Infineon Systems, Intel, Edelman...; Tags: Enterprise IT, Disruptive, Business strategy; Blog posts 2007-05-02
Consolidation and Virtualization: Business Strategy for a Successful Consolidation Implementation: For all the incentives to enterprise consolidation, there are also some powerful lines of resistance to overcome. Because many organizations don't have a centralized IT budget, Logicalis Senior Infrastructure Consultant observes, individual departments are often less than enthusiastic about surrendering hardware they have purchased with their own money to the...; Tags: Information Technology, Consolidation, Business Strategy, Datatec, Virtualization, Hardware; White papers 2007-05-01

A proposed unit of "innovation/disruption": I was discussing innovation Wednesday evening with my old buddy Tom Abate from The SF Chronicle. These chats always provide lots of fodder for posts.And in talking about innovation I began to wonder if it was synonymous with disruption. I think it is, because if innovation is not disruptive it...; Tags: Business strategy, Disruptive, innovation, Silicon Valley; Blog posts 2007-02-22
Innovation inflation: About 15 miles south of San Jose, down a country lane, and hidden behind one of the scenic rolling hills of "Steinbeck country" is IBMs Silicon Valley research and development labs.It used to be called Santa Teresa Labs, opened in 1977 with about 3,000 square feet, housing about 1300 researchers,...; Tags: Business strategy, Disruptive, IBM; Blog posts 2007-02-21
Nortel has a burn the boats strategy says CTO: The clap and rumble of thunder is followed within seconds by the sound of a torrential, tropical downpour. Im sitting in the Tonga Room, in the bowels of the swank Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, with John Roese, CTO of Nortel, the $11bn Canadian telecoms equipment giant.The thunder and lighting...; Tags: Business strategy, Enterprise IT, Top interviews; Blog posts 2007-02-13
Google's one square-inch business model...: Googles ambition is to have a searchbox in front of someone all the time. From that small rectangle of user interface, maybe it measures 1 square inch, Google has built a massive business. Microsoft owns far more user interface real estate than Google--youd think it would be ahead of...; Tags: Real estate, user interface, Microsofts, GOOGLE HAS, Googles ambition, Google Inc.; Blog posts 2006-12-14
Gartner predicts hasta la Vista for future Microsoft OSs: Gartner predicts the bleeding obvious: Vista will be the last Windows.LOS ANGELES Reuters - Research firm Gartner Inc. turned soothsayer on Wednesday by predicting that Windows Vista will be the last big release of Microsoft Corp.s Windows operating system. Source: Gartner predicts Vista to be last major Windows - Yahoo!...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Disruptive, Business strategy; Blog posts 2006-12-14
Broadband Household Segmentation: The Impact on Service Provider Consumer Applications Strategies: This whitepaper examines an alternative methodology for assessing next-generation consumer applications and services. A survey of US and Canada broadband subscribers identified six groups of North American broadband households, each with distinct behavior attributes identified. A multi-step business strategy is outlined to guide the migration to next-generation services. Based on...; Tags: Strategy, Reed Elsevier Inc., Broadband, Business Strategy, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking; White papers 2006-09-01
Project Management as a Knowledge Management Primer: The Learning Infrastructure in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations: Projects as Knowledge Transformations and Beyond: The digital economy is based on knowledge and the ultimate objective is the reinforcement of performance. The business strategy has been shifted from the management of tangible assets to intangible resources and the traditional competitive position of business units is based on their capacity for effective action. The main conclusion...; Tags: Project Management, Knowledge, Conclusion, Knowledge Management, Economy, Business Strategy, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-04-20

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Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices: This is what I imagine: some technoslaves or computer software constantly peruses YouTube looking for infringements. It finds them and the music companies send YT an almost daily list of take-down notices per the DMCA. YouTube takes down. Problem being everything gets taken down...; Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Takedown, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-20
Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft: Open-source Castle Project founder joins MicrosoftI've always been curious about the uptake of Iron*Its a strategy that seems to follow the same mistake MS is making on the web...."If we offer OUR version they will come". It seems to me that ASP.Net attracts a certain type of person just like...; Tags: .NET, Middleware, Application servers, Scripting languages, open source, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Corp., PHP; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
Spam coming from free email providers increasing: Spam coming from free email providers increasingSpamit is a problem, when recieve spam the TO: has additional accounts on my free email. there should be a way for the free email t block those sending to the same free email. it's CRAZYFree E-mail services should be held responsible...for keeping their...; Tags: Spam, free email company, spammer, e-mail company, e-mail; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
Spam coming from free email providers increasing: After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...; Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-18
My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier: Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...; Tags: Network, Information Technology, Hobby, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Deb Perelman; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...; Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, Gore, dependence, fossil fuel; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018: Since my blogging buddy Harry Fuller is on vacation this week, I need to pick up the gauntlet and ensure that we've got some good political fodder for those of you who want to debate the existence of global warming and the necessity of reducing our dependence on foreign oil....; Tags: San Jose, Mr., Al Gore, Fossil Fuel, Gore, Blogging, Investment, Internet, Finance, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-18
The green tech edition of â€˜what I did on my summer vacation': How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...; Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-18