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- In Search of Clarity: Unravelling the Complexities of executive Decision-making
- Decision-making is at the core of all business activity, as executives set strategy and manage operations by weighing a vast array of factors to arrive at the desired balance of risk and reward. The enormous growth of companies size and operations in recent years--particularly across borders--is making this process increasingly...
- Tags: Decision-making, Executive, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2007-09-01
- executive Accounting (exe)
- Executive Accounting is designed for service type businesses that require a sophisticated accounting system. It contains features such as three styles of invoicing (service, distribution, and recurrent), multi-currency capabilities, multiple bank account capabilities, and other powerful features. Executive Accounting is a single-user system that can be upgraded to an unlimited...
- Tags: Bank, Accounting, Executive, Executive Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Software downloads 2006-07-18
- The Worried executive's Guide: A Four-Step Approach to Disaster Recovery in Large Organizations
- Many people tasked by their organizations with responsibility for a disaster recovery plan don't really know where to start. Indeed, the responsibility to maintain the integrity of the business in the event of a natural disaster, catastrophic human error, major system failure, or even a terrorist attack can be a...
- Tags: Pearson Education Inc., Executive, Disaster Recovery, Corporate Insurance, Business Security, Homeland Security, Data Management, Business Operations, Government
- White papers 2006-04-28
- The Worried executive's Guide: Disaster Recovery Planning for Mixed-Hardware Environments
- When considering how to protect a company's technology assets, one tends to think in terms of the mainframe, the network, the phone system. But laptops, PDAs, and other little proliferating gadgets now carry a great part of the burden of data for most organizations. Has one given any thought to...
- Tags: Pearson Education Inc., Phone, Disaster Recovery Planning, Executive, Disaster Recovery, PDAs, Mainframes, Telecom & Utilities, Asset Management, Data Management, Handhelds, Hardware, Servers, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-04-07
- An executive's Guide to Vulnerability Management: How to Save Time and Money by Using Managed Services to Find and Fix Critical Security Exposures
- "Vulnerability Management and Remediation" sounds like a mouthful. It can also be difficult to swallow - if senior executives and security staff do not work together to develop a plan to find, prioritize and fix network security exposures in a timely and cost-effective manner. This paper gives executives insight into...
- Tags: Managed Services, Internet Security Systems Inc., Executive, Security, Network Security, Networking
- White papers 2005-09-01
- executive Toy 5000 (zip)
- It's a virtual reality version of those executive toys from the 80's. You know the ones--with little metal balls dangling from wires banging off each other. Complete with customizable balls and sound effects.
- Tags: Executive, Virtual Reality, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2005-08-25
- executive's Guide: Best Practices for Offsite Data Protection and Recovery
- Attention CEOs, presidents, owners and other executives at small to medium sized businesses. What would happen if your business applications froze? A power outage destroyed your most recent transactions? Your servers succumbed to a virus? Could you recover? Odds aren't good. In fact, 50% of businesses that lose their data...
- Tags: Iron Mountain Inc., Data Protection, Recovery, Best Practice, Small And Medium Business, Executive, LiveVault Corp., Smb/Sme, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- A Crisis Management Plan: Are You Prepared?
- Most people like to think they do their best work in the midst of a crisis or controversy, when the adrenaline is flowing and they can make vital decisions in a split second. And in fact, many executives do perform extremely well under pressure. But, in a world when the...
- Tags: Decision, Executive, Crisis Management
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- Consultants Corner: Getting executive Support for Your BCP
- As challenging as it may seem at times, the importance of getting executive support and buy in for an organization's Business Continuity Planning BCP program cannot be understated and moreover is a critical component to the overall success in recoverability and long-term survival. Without that buy-in from key executives, a...
- Tags: Business Continuity, Executive, It Services
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- Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says
- And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...
- Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Ask.com buys Dictionary.com; Bolsters reference content
- Ask.com plans to buy Lexico Publishing Group, the company behind Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, for an undisclosed sum. The fourth largest search engine briefed a few reporters on its plans such as News.com's Stephen Shankland. The deal is expected to be officially announced Thursday. ...
- Tags: Ask.com, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Limo adds Mozilla, Verizon to its bandwagon
- The LiMo Foundation, a consortium that is building an open software platform for handsets based on Linux, has added Mozilla and Verizon to its roster The full roster of partners added today includes: Infineon Technologies; Kvaleberg AS; Mozilla Corporation; Red...
- Tags: LiMo Foundation, Verizon Communications Inc., Mozilla Corp., Limo, UI, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Frequent open source miles
- Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...
- Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?
- InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost
- The final nail in the coffin of municipal Wi-Fi was hammered today as Earthlink pulled the plug on Philadelphia's wireless program, as the Wall Street Journal reports. "This was about a business model that simply didn't work," said Rolla Huff, chief executive of the Atlanta-based Internet services...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- UK education agency nixes OOXML
- Office Open XML – the open standard with a trademark in its name – might be good enough for the International Standards Organization but it's not acceptable to British schools, InfoWeek reports. "In the context of the education system," lack of truly open standards in Office 2007 "can result...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly
- EarthLink on Tuesday threw in the towel on its Philadelphia Wi-Fi project, which the ISP was trying to transfer to a non-profit or the city's operating group. Now EarthLink is trying to pull out its gear. EarthLink says in a statement: After months of negotiations with...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Network, Wi-Fi Network, City, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP's to-do list following EDS acquisition
- We now know that HP is acquiring EDS in what appears to be an agreed bid that values EDS at $13.9 billion. Larry Dignan has the main analysis but it leaves open a series of testing questions for HP CEO Mark Hurd. As Larry points out: Overall, Wall Street...
- Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Corporate Law, Asset Management, Construction, It Services, It Operations, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft Biz Unit Chief Jeff Raikes to head Gates Foundation
- Microsoft Biz Unit Chief Jeff Raikes to head Gates FoundationNice...So he'll be the man in charge of the foundation that this year awarded me the Gates Millenium Scholarship...nice to know.An Executive CatamaranJiminy Cricket. Some coasters in this world have sails that are miles wide. Not only did...
- Tags: biz unit, Gates Foundation, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
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