Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Workplace Flexibility as a Business Strategy
- Technologies have made the old 9-to-5 office routine dispensable, while employees increasingly insist it is undesirable. They would trade dollars for work flexibility to achieve a more balanced life. View this BNET Webcast to hear Katty Kay, BBC correspondent and co-author of Womenomics, explore how the...
- Tags: Workplace, Business Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2009-09-29
- How Kanye West influences enterprise social business strategy
- Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...
- Tags: Marketing, Collaboration, Analytics, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Entertainment, Business Strategy, MTV, Radian6, Jive Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Cloud Computing: Marketing Hype or Sound Business Strategy?
- Building a house is difficult and costly. That's why a family with two children would most likely not request a house with eight bedrooms "Just in case." And rarely are homes built with three dining rooms and an extra kitchen just to handle the annual holiday get-together. These spaces would...
- Tags: Marketing, Verizon Communications Inc., Business Strategy, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-06-03
- The Effect of Intellectual Property Commoditization on Business Strategy
- In the early 21st century a greater focus on intangible assets is gaining ground. This marks a paradigm shift in how intangible assets - specifically, Intellectual Property IP - are viewed from an economic standpoint. Patents, while once viewed as tools used primarily for the prevention of copying of inventions,...
- Tags: Asset, Business Strategy, Nerac, Asset Management, Intellectual Property, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Research & Development
- White papers 2009-05-11
- IT Manager Webcast: CIO Scorecard Fosters Strategic Performance Management Culture (Level 200)
- Microsoft IT MS IT falls under strict corporate scrutiny to demonstrate its business value and return on investment. The attendee of this webcast will find out how the CIO Scorecard at Microsoft helps to strategically align the organization with corporate and fiscal objectives, manage organizational performance, and demonstrate the value...
- Tags: CIO, Webcast, Performance, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Business Strategy, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Webcasts 2009-03-26
- Outsourcing - Changing Business Strategy Through Outsourcing
- "Outsourcing - How can one use it to their advantage and change their Business Strategy through it, particularly in this time of uncertainty / financial crisis." The rule of economics suggests that Quality and Costs are directly proportional. In simple terms, to improve Quality, one has to spend more and...
- Tags: Business Strategy, Pratham Consultancy Services, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The emerging case for open business methods
- The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...
- Tags: Business, Business Method, Business Strategy, Dave Bort, Dion Hinchcliffe, Internet, Management, Network, Open Source, Reasons Organization, Strategy
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Application Lifecycle Management and Business Strategy
- Is building custom software a necessary evil, a process that's divorced from the really important parts of a business? In many organizations, how well a firm executes its business strategies is inextricably tied to how good it is at creating and running new applications. Nearly every organization...
- Tags: Custom Application, Application Lifecycle Management, Business Strategy
- White papers 2008-12-01
- How open should your open source business strategy be
- What Vembu and others are showing is that success in open source also requires transparency in other areas, even when it comes to development strategy, and a willingness to acknowledge what others may see as mistakes in that strategy. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Business Strategy, Sridhar Vembu, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Building an 'Agile' Response to Change
- Agility is the ability of an organisation in whole, or in part as required, to transform itself competently in order to manage or exploit a new situation. Systemic agility is achieved by preparing people culturally for change and structuring flexibility for change into the processes, systems and infrastructure that they...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Agility, Business Strategy, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-10-28
- Can IT strengthen the economy?
- At the Garner IT Expo in Orlando, Fla., Cisco CEO John Chambers predicts that as the economy turns, many company heads will be looking for flexibility along with cost effectiveness--aspects that video conferencing and social networking provide. He forsees that, soon, IT and business strategy will be so intertwined we...
- Tags: Information Technology, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Cisco, collaboration, Gartner, CEO, cost effective, video conferencing, IT, business strategy, economy
- Videos 2008-10-15
- One ring that binds them all -- that's the business strategy
- The underlying business strategy for a lot of Silicon Valley/Web 2.0 companies, whether some realize it or not, is to become the "wrapper" for everything else. It is a type of "one ring that binds them all" philosophy, another metaphor that describes what is going on. Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Business Strategy, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Board ID - An Improved Approach to Achieving Robust Machine-to-Machine Authentication That Reduces Operating Risks and Enables Profitable Business Strategies
- This white paper focuses on security solutions for machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication. It describes the most common current solution and highlights the need for and benefits of improved solutions. Then it provides an overview of the strong Board ID chip solution developed by Renesas Technology, describes its advantages, and explains how...
- Tags: M2M, Renesas Technology Corp., Board, Business Strategy, Corporate Governance, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers 2008-08-07
- An Executive Guide to Sustainable Business Strategies
- The presenters of this webcast will give a clear understanding of how to focus the organization's sustainability efforts. The presenters have key lessons to share from many years of experience. Find out what works and which paths to avoid. Techniques and technology have evolved and made way for innovations that...
- Tags: Sustainability, SAS Institute, Business Strategy
- Webcasts 2008-07-17
- Technip Italy Improves Information Visibility and Accuracy With Business Intelligence Solution
- Technip Italy wanted to optimize data transmission and analysis by enabling management systems to supply additional information for simple figures. The challenge was to provide managers with access to an overview of business data to allow monitoring of results and increase flexibility for future business strategy development and enable the...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Business Strategy, Technip Italy, Business Intelligence, Storage, Data Mining, Databases, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Components
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Building a Business Strategy Around Search
- Reed Business is a division of Reed Elsevier, a world-leading publisher and information provider employing 36,000 people in over 200 locations worldwide. It needed to implement an Enterprise Search solution. Having undertaken a full review of the available Enterprise Search solutions, Reed Business chose FAST for its scalability, security, flexibility,...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Business Strategy, Reed Business, Cloud Computing, Search
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Services: Five Business Strategies for Reducing the High Cost of Online Consumer Authentication
- Online services provide organizations with additional channels to generate revenue, strengthen branding, and meet customer demand for anytime, anywhere services. However, as online identity theft, fraud, and credit card data breaches become increasingly sophisticated, user names and passwords are insufficient to verify or authenticate users' identity and protect high-value transactions....
- Tags: Credit Card, VeriSign Inc., Authentication, Business Strategy, Identity Theft, Security
- White papers 2008-05-06
- 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
- UK 3PL Provider Builds Progressive Business Strategy
- As part of the MAP Merchant group of companies, gm2 Logistics provides warehousing and logistics services for two of the UK's largest paper merchants, McNaughton Paper Group and Premier Paper Group. Building sales and profitability in the paper business is predicated on fast response to customer needs. In addition to...
- Tags: HighJump Software Inc., Logistics, Business Strategy, UK 3PL Provider, Supply Chain, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Forrester - Assess Your Enterprise Agility
- Firms and government organizations are constantly buffeted by changes in their business environment — from changing customer tastes to economic changes affecting raw material prices to government regulations that make hitherto smart business strategies irrelevant. Firms must respond well to these changes to survive and thrive. While firms have used...
- Tags: Change, Agility, Forrester Research Inc., Business Strategy
- White papers 2007-11-12
White Papers and Webcasts
The Business Essentials Guide provides you useful tools and templates to help grow your business and save you time with automated shipping solutions.
