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Using green IT to meet corporate sustainability goals. Deloitte offers tips in Webinar.

Wondering how to get your chief executive to buy more into technology's role in helping reduce energy consumption or in managing environmental initiatives? Deloitte Consulting recently hosted a seminar called "Competing in the Low-Carbon Economy: The Essential Dialogue Between the CIO and the C-Suite. Its goal was...

Tags: Sustainability, Deloitte LLP, Webinar, Green IT, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Is Green IT a passing fad? Deloitte CIO says NO

Is Green IT a passing fad? Deloitte CIO says NOControlling peopleHow do you control what people eat, how they live, what they buy, whether or not they can drive and best of all tell the sheep the dire lies they tell so super Government can control everyone and everything.When they...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Bobby Joe, Controlling, sheeple, Green IT, Deloitte LLP

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Is Green IT a passing fad? Deloitte CIO says NO

This is the last of my posts from notes I took during the Uptime Symposium last month. I've been stewing on this one the longest because the thoughts aren't from a high-tech vendor pushing green tech or from a person like me who just "believes," they are from a person...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Data Center, Green IT, Server, Data Centers, Printers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Peripherals, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Tech â€" the new knowledge worker

Axeda, Deloitte and the future of business I had a great call the other day with Doug Standley of Deloitte and Brian Anderson of Axeda. The two firms have worked out an alliance but it’s the nature of the solution they are taking to market...

Tags: Asset, Deloitte LLP, Knowledge Worker, Axeda, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Miami-Dade school district and Deloitte: 'Endless money pit'

Deloitte seems to hit the IT failures radar with some frequency. Miami-Dade school district's SAP implementation is the most recent Deloitte project to come across my desk. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Project, Deloitte LLP, Miami-Dade School District, Ofelia San Pedro, Renier, Corporate Governance, Aerospace & Defense, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Manufacturing, Marketing, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-01-13

CES 2009: Don't count out those Millennials or Online Media, Cell Phone on the rise as entertainment device, says Deloitte

CES 2009: Don't count out those Millennials or Online Media, Cell Phone on the rise as entertainment device, says DeloitteInterestinglyAccording to AdMod analysis, iPhone OS makes up 48% of mobile device users on the web in the US and 32% worldwide. Making it number 1 in the US and number...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Millennials, CES 2009, entertainment device, Deloitte LLP, online media, phone, entertainment, cell phone

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

CES 2009: Don't count out those Millennials or Online Media, Cell Phone on the rise as entertainment device, says Deloitte

 The idiot box is still king, but don't count out online advertising. (Source: Deloitte LLP) At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Deloitte LLP revealed the results of its 3rd State of the Media Democracy Survey, which are likely to be...

Tags: Social Networking, Deloitte LLP, Advertisement, Phone, Japan, Cell Phone, Online Media, TV, Survey, Entertainment, Millennials, Entertainment Device, Idiot Box, Early-adopter Millennials, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Business Case Deloitte: Deloitte Experiences Runbook Software

Deloitte is the brand name under which independent member firms throughout the world collaborate in the areas of audit, consultancy, financial advisory, risk management and tax advice. It wanted to record the processes in order to exclude risks. Also, it wanted to straighten out its administrative organization. It deployed Runbook...

Tags: Business Case, Deloitte LLP, Runbook, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Branding, Financial Accounting, Security, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2009-01-01

LA school district and Deloitte in $18m failure settlement

LA school district and Deloitte in $18m failure settlementIt's those fundamentals that were missing or inadequateRequirements, documentation, project plan, signoffs, etc. There's plenty of blame to go around, but I place the primary share of it on Deloitte, who are supposed to be the "experts" at these types...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, LA school district, school district

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

LA school district and Deloitte in $18m failure settlement

Implementation consulting firm, Deloitte, will pay the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD $8.25m and forgo $10m in unpaid invoices to settle a long-standing dispute over payroll problems arising during an SAP implementation. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Settlement, Payroll, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-12-16

Competition, Not Economic Downturn, Driving Major Changes For High-Tech Companies

Being competitive is the challenge in today's technology industry. Companies are faced with continuous market and technology disruptions, more complex customer channels and demands that in turn are forcing fundamental changes to their traditional business and operating models. As a result, while enterprise-wide transformations are often complex and risky, they...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-10-29

Deloitte laptop stolen: Clients at risk

Deloitte laptop stolen: Clients at riskA little llarmist aren't we?Personally, I would not choose to store that information on a laptop in the first place. But you must have missed the part where it says:"The laptop was protected by a number of security measures, including start up password, operating...

Tags: Notebooks, Potential victim, Union leader, Deloitte LLP, laptop computer, security

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Deloitte laptop stolen: Clients at risk

A stolen laptop belonging to consulting firm Deloitte contained confidential personal data belonging to 150,000 UK railway workers and all UK Vodafone staff with pensions. How ironic. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Deloitte Improves Operational Efficiency, Flexibility With Integrated Enterprise IT Infrastructure

Deloitte wanted to implement an integrated enterprise resource management system that enhances operational efficiency while maintaining existing organizational models where possible and adopt a dependable, robust, and easily manageable solution. The challenge was to protect IT investment with a system that continues to provide enhancements and integrate a flexible system...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Deloitte LLP, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Change Management, Strategy, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2008-09-01

Firm Deploys Operating System in Four Weeks, Improves Mobility and Security

Deloitte Netherlands is a professional services firm with a highly mobile workforce - and customers and employees who expect it to use the latest technology. Staying current with technology not only helps draw and retain top talent, but also drives the firm's three-year hardware refresh cycle. In October 2007, Deloitte...

Tags: Security, Deloitte LLP, Operating System, Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Workforce, Deloitte Netherlands, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Operating Systems, Human Resources, Software

Case studies 2008-08-30

It's Not All About the Killer App: Organization Design and Innovative People Strategy Are Critical to Achieving Financial Success in a Converging Market

Digital Convergence is creating opportunity - and confusion - in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications TMT industries C-suite TMT executives who wish to compete in this space increasingly are looking to organizational convergence, merging, or forming external relationships alliances or partnerships to develop integrated products or services in order to...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Financial, Organization Design, Killer Application, Leader, Convergence, Leadership, VOIP, Strategy, Management, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2008-08-04

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter

SAP implementation problems prevented Levi Strauss from fulfilling orders for a week during the second quarter and contributed to a 98% decline in net income relative to the same quarter last year. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, ERP, ERP System, Internal Control, Levi Strauss, Michael Krigsman, PROJECT FAILURES ANALYSIS Levi, SAP AG, Software

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Health Information Technology Value Chain: A Life Sciences Perspective

This Deloitte report discusses health information revolution. This point of view addresses the major challenges that life sciences companies are facing such as falling research and development productivity, lengthy clinical trials, growing regulatory scrutiny in new medicines and the lack of deep insights into the needs for pharmacogenics products. It...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Patient, Health Care, Life Science, Life Sciences Company, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-05-19

Why Settle for Less?: Deloitte Consulting 2008 Outsourcing Report

While outsourcing is generally recognized as a strategy for producing cost savings, few surveys to date have utilized a large enough sample of respondents to provide an accurate estimate of the actual amount of these savings. Despite this apparently positive result it believe that the true potential of outsourcing is...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2008-02-16

ICD-10: Turning Regulatory Compliance Into Strategic Advantage - Are U.S. Health Plans and Providers Ready for ICD-10 Adoption?

As if existing IT investments weren't a large enough strain on provider and payor budgets, the U.S. health care industry is facing a new challenge: ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Version 10) implementation. In 2011, per the mandate of Senate Bill 628, the United States...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Health Care, Regulatory Compliance, U.S. ICD-10 Adoption, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2008-02-04