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Truck Dealer Gains Visibility Into Sales Pipeline, Manages Growth With CRM

Rush Enterprises, which manages heavy-duty truck and construction equipment dealerships, was expanding rapidly and needed better insight into the 17,000 truck sales per year occurring at its more than 40 locations across the United States. The sales process was paper-based and nonstandardized, requiring a great deal of executives' time to...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Construction Equipment, CRM, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Construction, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Software

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18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

2010 Infiniti QX56

Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...

Tags: Infiniti QX56

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Laydown Yard Optimization Using RFID: A Cost and Time Perspective

This project reports the use and applications of Radio Frequency Identification RFID technique in a laydown yard zone. Every construction site has a laydown yard with equipments and materials worth millions of dollars. The real-time exact tracking and location of these items saves money by avoiding duplicating the equipment and...

Tags: Optimization, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-10-21

Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate

Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Virtualization, Apps.gov, agency, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Windmills stir up opposition

In many parts of the U.S. you can't simply put up a windmill to generate electricity for your own use. Grandpa may have used one to pump water out on the farm, but now it's NIMBY time. After all, one of them might topple over and kill the...

Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-13

What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us

My Guess, as requested.Insofar as the EU seems to be tardy in the extreme when investigating monopoly considerations (e.g. why have they waited 10 years to tackle M$ about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?) I would agree with you completely. Why didn't they start proceedings in a timely fashion to...

Tags: Strategy, Backblaze, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Petrobras Well Drilling Services Unit Improves Project Management Efficiency

Petrobras wanted to manage nearly 40 projects simultaneously, while avoiding financial and human resource waste and accelerate project response time and increase precision of short-, mid-, and long-term demand simulations in order to increase the capacity of simultaneous oil well construction, without increasing costs. The challenge was to reduce material...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Petrobras, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2009-09-01

M-Audio Studiophile AV 30

The M-Audio brand name may mean more to musicians and music producers than gamers and iTunes junkies, but all you really need to know is that the company makes one of the best-sounding PC and multimedia speakers you can buy. Unfortunately, those speakers are called the Studiophile AV 40, they...

Tags: speaker, Studiophile AV 30, AV 40

Product reviews 2009-08-13

Three new Shure pro studio headphones announced; $59 to $199

Shure on Tuesday introduced three new professional headphone models, the company's first over-the-ear models designed for studio applications. The SRH840, SRH440, and SRH240 are designed for studio engineers and musicians, but their arrival marks their availability to the wider...

Tags: Headphone, Shure, Pro Model, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Scientists envision inflatable alternative to tethered space elevator

An inflatable free standing tower could one day carry equipment and tourists 20 kilometers above Earth, and it could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, say researchers at York University in Toronto, Canada. They envision a giant tower assembled with a series of modules made up...

Tags: Elevator, Kilometer, Team Management, Cable, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Management, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Caterpillar D7E hybrid dozer photos

In an effort to reduce emissions for construction equipment, Caterpillar comes up with the hybrid D7E dozer. In developing the advanced drivetrain, Caterpillar realized many more benefits than just cleaner air, finding the efficient drivetrain gives the dozer better performance all around. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Caterpillar Inc., Construction, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-06-12

Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PC

Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PCTypo?When you mentioned environments where stuff is bound to get dirty anyway, did you mean to say "these tips are [b]not[/b] for them" ?Aside from that, good article!RE: Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PCIronically (to...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, dust bunny, bunny, Five-Way, PC, tube, environment, computer

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PC

Guest post: This quite useful post by TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler originally appeared on the IT Dojo blog. Given this advice I'm going to go dust bunny hunting... If your users keep their PCs on the floor or they operate in dirty environments, the dust bunnies can quickly...

Tags: PC, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Review: Jawbone PRIME Bluetooth headset

I just received my Jawbone PRIME Bluetooth headset and I love it. PRIME is the successor to the Jawbone 2 (which I reviewed in July 2008) and it doesn't disappoint. PRIME is a little sleeker than the Jawbone 2 but not by much and comes with a...

Tags: Headset, Bluetooth Headset, Jawbone, NoiseAssasin 2.0 Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Google fallout: One in seven users hit by outage

Google fallout: One in seven users hit by outageGoogle News is broke today....8 am CDT and I can't find my news anywhere.It is not Google's faultthere just happens to be nothing news worthy going on today! :)RE: Google fallout: One in seven users hit by outageRemember that Google uses only...

Tags: Linux, Construction, Manufacturing, Google Inc., fallout, window

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

The 24-Hour Commercial: Signs of Our Times

Our ancestors drew on cave walls. We draw on buildings. There is, for instance, a two-story retail outlet in New York's Times Square devoted to all things M&M. (Not bad for a chocolate that is about the size of a shirt button.) ...

Tags: Sign, Times Square, Randall Bennett, Telecom & Utilities, Games, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-21

PowerPoint 101

PowerPoint 101I can't stand PowerPoint...Death by PowerPoint.... Life by Keynote....MS just needs to dump powerpoint all together. Talk about a horrible app.You touched on one of the big problems for portable documents.- People using spaces to indent, or extra returns to force a page break, or other such improvising.You need...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint 101

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

Variquest proves it's OK to use paper sometimes

Regular readers will know that I'm a pretty big tree hugger. I'm not quite as militant as my wife, but anywhere I can use technology to eliminate the use of paper, conserve resources, or otherwise migrate educational "stuff" whatever that might be online, I'm there. Thus,...

Tags: Poster, Education, Graphics, Teacher, Printing, Variquest, Bumper Sticker, Printers, Document Management, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Dell I15-156B

Editors' note: This review is part of our Winter 2009 Retail Laptop Review Roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.A decent Netbook configuration, with an Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, Windows XP, and a good-sized hard drive will run you about $499,...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, laptop computer, Dell Inspiron, Intel Corp., CPU, hard drive, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2009-02-05