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- 'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary
- This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...
- Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Life In The Vast Plane...
- Why is it that laptops and the internet have been around for a generation and yet the infrastructure we live in still doesn't support them? I'm talking primarily about travel. A vast portion of the working population are regularly on the move, particularly flying, for face...
- Tags: Professional Services, Jet, Laptop Computer, Economy Class, Corporate Governance, Internet, Wireless LANs, TVs, Aerospace & Defense, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Manufacturing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- News to know: Intel's IDF; Google; Microsoft; Yahoo
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Critical iTunes flaw exposes Mac, Windows to hacker attacks Sam Diaz: Otellini at...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Data Centers, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Corporate Communications, Linux, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- 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
- Gen X/GenY/Enterprise 2.0: are the naysayers right?
- It seems that analyst firm Forrester has woken up to the fact that Gen Y are not the big movers and shakers that we've been told the last couple of years. According to Read Write Web Enterprise: A favorite argument among those who talk about...
- Tags: Generation X, Generation Y, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Roche Brasil Integrates Information From Clients Into Single System to Improve Management
- Roche wanted to strengthen leadership in Latin America's pharmaceutical industry and align with the company's global corporate strategy, emphasizing consistent customer experiences regardless of location and expand Oracle´s Siebel CRM management platform to Latin America within a one year goal period as established by Roche Brasil headquarters. Roche implemented Oracle's...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Roche Holding AG, Latin America, Roche Brasil, Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Out-Innovated by Management Practice Blowback - a Video Conversation with John Hagel
- I had the opportunity to sit down for a discussion with John Hagel of Deloitte's Center for the Edge last week. My previous post about the 'Shift Index 2009' report is augmented by this video, and fellow ZDNet blogger Dennis Howlett attended the...
- Tags: Innovation, Management Practice, Video, Motorcycle, Destination Point, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- The Movers & Shakers Conference...
- I tend to think of Fortune Brainstorm Tech, which happened last week in Pasadena, as a conference for industry titans. Last year's event was held amid tight security and featured the likes of Rupert Murdoch News International , Philippe Daulman Viacom and Jeff Bezos Amazon in...
- Tags: Conversation, Conference, Twitter, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Intellectual Property, Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index
- The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...
- Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Green IT video case studies to watch at your leisure
- The folks at Think Ecological, which is a public awareness initiative for green IT backed by the likes of SGI, Intel, the BPM Forum and the Green Renewable Energy and Environmental Network, has thrown together some video case studies with six organizations who were willing to share some of their...
- Tags: Green IT, Video, Best Practice, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?
- One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Argument, Tom, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Chartered Semiconductor Avoids Expensive Audit and Remediation, Resolves Segregation-of-Duty Conflicts
- Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing wanted to implement a solution to address a lack of Segregation-Of-Duties SOD controls within the organization and enable senior managers to proactively resolve conflicting access rights. The challenge was to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing engaged Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Deloitte & Touche Enterprise Risk...
- Tags: Audit, Oracle Corp., Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Semiconductor, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Operational Accounting, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Software
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Down to business: Forrester reports more companies looking to IT services firms for help on green IT strategy
- Most businesses are still going it alone when it comes to figuring out their green IT projects, but Forrester Research reports that an increasing number of companies are turning to a professional services provider for help. Many of the usual suspects in the enterprise IT services business are morphing in...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Services, Information Technology, Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Your green IT project: Who should play a role?
- I guess you could safely say we have entered the "Green IT 2.0" zone. Now that most people understand what you mean when you use that term in a sentence, a large majority of businesses have either adopted OR are about to adopt OR are considering Green...
- Tags: Green IT, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- News to know: Google; Facebook; HP battery recall
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws Larry Dignan: Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities Sam Diaz: Google outage...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Twitter, Engineering, Wireless And Mobility
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- 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
- Smiths Medical Improves Customer Service, Optimizes Global Supply Chain and Drives Growth
- Smiths Medical wanted to evolve from stand-alone businesses into a global operation and consolidate disparate systems across multiple divisions and acquired companies to streamline operations and share best practices across the diverse global organization. The challenge was to improve ability to effectively manage and optimize inventory at locations around the...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Product Marketing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Audit thyself: New energy evaluation service looks at the total IT, facilities picture
- Have you managed to get a handle yet on exactly WHAT you might be able to do in your data center to reduce your power profile? Or are you just kind of poking around with tactical initiatives? (Which, by the way isn't a BAD thing. After all, Deloitte's CIO just...
- Tags: Audit, Data Center, Information Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- 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
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