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- Creating a Value Driven Change Capability for Executing Organisational Strategy
- Investment in change is in an attempt to create a 'better tomorrow' for the organisation. This free article looks at how organisations enhance their capability for executing the business strategy. As the school report might say "More emphasis needed on 'strategy execution' and rather less on 'creating the perfect...
- Tags: Cranfield University, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-10-13
- SAS Technology and Know-How Underpin a Master's Degree in Clinical Research at the UK's Cranfield University
- The pharmaceutical and biomedical sector places a high premium on the application of practical skills and knowledge in clinical research. So how can one ensure people entering the industry have the right expertise to support such activities? Especially since today, this means having a sound knowledge of SAS, the de...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Biomedical, Cranfield University
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- CRM: From Strategy to Implementation - How to Maximize Its Potential!
- CRM needs to be re-positioned as a shareholder value creation approach. Narrow functionally-based traditional marketing is being replaced by a new form of cross-functional relationship management. In order to succeed with this new approach, it is essential to understand both the economics of customer acquisition and customer retention and the...
- Tags: Cranfield University, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Management
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- From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 in the Engineering Information World - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- This presentation is a description of Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 in the engineering information world. The topics outlined in this presentation are engineering information sources, engineering information users, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 applications, reconciliation, 20th century MAGiC, 21st century MAGiC, etc.
- Tags: Web, Cranfield University, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
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- And speaking of Sun Microsystems
- Sun Microsystems is not a name we often associate with education outside of high-end technical fields at the university level. Of course, Sun is responsible for OpenOffice and has recently acquired both MySQL and VirtualBox, all of which (especially OO.org) have quite a bit of relevance here. ...
- Tags: K-12, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Using your voice to pilot your computer
- According to The Seattle Times, an interdisciplinary team of scientists of the University of Washington UW has developed Vocal Joystick, a software which enables people with disabilities to control their computers using the sound of their voice and without the need to use a mouse. Their virtual computer mouse driven...
- Tags: Software, Pattern Recognition, Mouse, Voice Recognition, Voice, Signal Processing, Computer, Application Driver, Productivity, Mice, Telephony, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Wireless soil sensors to help farmers
- A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground.' According...
- Tags: Iowa State University, Sensor, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- A robot to destroy breast cancer cells
- Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy displays...
- Tags: Breast Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Rod, Cell, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- "People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"
- Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...
- Tags: University, U.K., Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- sBOOKs - Robert Louis Stevenson (exe)
- See 15 ebooks from R. L. Stevevson in one easy to use application. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13 November 1850. He studied at Edinburgh University and also qualified as a lawyer. He travelled extensively in Europe and began his writing career during these years. He...
- Tags: SmartSolutions, E-books, Professional Development, Personal Technology, Career
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...
- Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Where are all the programmers?
- I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...
- Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry
- No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...
- Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?
- Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Watching brain cells in action
- A Stanford University team has developed a microscope weighing only 1.1 grams. It is so small that it can be mounted to the head of a freely moving mouse to watch its brain cell activity. According to what said the lead researcher to New Scientist, 'A lot of work has...
- Tags: Microscope, Mouse, Imaging, Muscle, Stanford University Team, Sarcomeres, Mice, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Researchers publish details on London travel card hack
- First there was Boston's Charlie card. Now, Dutch researchers have exposed the inherent weakness in the RFID chip used in London's Oyster travel smartcard, ZDNet UK says. Researchers released details at the Esorics security conference in Malaga on Monday and an academic paper PDF...
- Tags: Card, Researcher, London, Chip, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- The debate over kids and animals
- On the hit list of lead author Dr. Robert Frenck at the University of Cincinnati are exotic cats and raccoons, ferrets, monkeys, Gambian rats, hedgehogs, reptiles, baby chickens and hamsters. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Kid, Flash Memory, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Future wireless networks could be powered by "smart lighting"
- A light bulb went off in the head of researchers at Boston University about a new wireless networking technology, which was very appropriate considering that it involves, well, light bulbs. The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center has been created to develop technology that would allow low-powered...
- Tags: Network, Light-emitting Diode, Wireless Networking, Wireless Network, Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...
- Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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