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News to know: Google; Web Olympics; Patch Tuesday; iPhone: Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Will the Olympics melt the Internet? Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC More worries for Beijing visitors Phil Wainewright: Hello, Google, is anyone in there? Larry Dignan: Google: Our AOL investment is ‘impaired' ...; Tags: apple iphone, google inc., web, larry dignan, health care, internet, vertical industries, benefits, e-mail, healthcare, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), enterprise software, software, human resources, online communications, operating systems, microsoft windows; Blog posts 2008-08-08
Can global competition bring health care quality?: Can global competition bring health care quality?Medicine is best done up close and personal...and it's bad enough that patients in rural areas often have to go to distant cities without our sending people to foreign countries.We need a much more competitive system, but that's best done locally.Globalization has nothing to...; Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, hospital, patient; Discussion threads 2008-08-07
Can global competition bring health care quality?: My view is a key to any P4P scheme has to be transparency, solid information insurers and consumers can use to make informed choices. In the past this was known as "reputation," but when marketing dollars are used to buy reputation, numbers must replace it. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: hospital, health care, healthcare, vertical industries, benefits, enterprise software, software, human resources, dana blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-08-07
Globalization's discontents: I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared to Zimbabwe, it is positively affluent. People are poor, but the roads are filled with cars, the stores are filled...; Tags: Immigrant, Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Globalization, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-22
Gates spending lots of green on green revolution: The Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation are uniting to try to jump-start a new Green Revolution. This is not aimed at electric cars for you and me. Not aimed at cheaper electricity for Beijing or London. This is aimed at agriculture in areas where starvation and...; Tags: Growth, Africa, Goal, Operational Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-31

SAP-Business Objects combo ready to roll: This morning, after digesting Oracle's acquisition of BEA and Sun's consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP's Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest acquisition, Business Objects. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said Business Objects gives his company number one leadership...; Tags: Business Objects, SAP AG, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-16
An Innovative Pattern for Manufacturing Success: Dependable Pattern Works is one of the largest pattern shops in the Northwest part of the United States. The company's challenge was to remain competitive in the face of fierce global competition. They deployed automate design-through-manufacturing process using NX software with extend NX to shop floor to let machine operators...; Tags: Siemens AG, Manufacturing, Dependable Pattern Works, Product Marketing, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Finance, Management; Case studies 2007-10-01
John Edwards, NAFTA and protectionism: Though I was about as likely to vote for Daffy Duck as vote for John Edwards, his recent comments regarding the need for restrictions on foreign trade just sealed the deal. John Edwards and economic common sense simply cannot be mentioned in the same sentence.But, this blog wasn't written to...; Tags: U.S., Job, America, NAFTA, Mexico, John Carroll; Blog posts 2007-08-07
Egyptian Government National Education Program Transforms Small Businesses: Egyptian Government wanted to improve business and ICT skills among SMEs to foster global competition and transform education via coordination between private and public sector organizations. The challenge was to develop a management and ICT curriculum and infrastructure to deliver content to SMEs. As a solution they worked with IBSG...; Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Government, Small Business, Information And Communication Technology, Change Management, Smb/Sme, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management; Case studies 2007-08-01
The sinking dollar and offshoring: The sinking dollar and offshoringWon't make any differenceTo a well-run shop, the [u]cost[/u] of engineering services comes a very distant second to the value received: delays or low-quality work cost so much more than a salary that it's a sucker's bet.The problem is, most corporate management either has no idea...; Tags: Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Protectionism, offshoring, salary, Chinese Government, Microsoft Corp., job; Discussion threads 2007-07-25
The sinking dollar and offshoring: As noted yesterday, the falling value of the dollar is making it more costly to do business with India.This should be good news to American programmers. If it's getting more expensive, then the price differential between Indian labor and domestic American labor goes down. This means the advantages of domestic...; Tags: Economic Policy, Outsourcing; Blog posts 2007-07-25
Don't hide from global competition: Don't hide from global competitionAnother piece required.Let's say that the sensible cushion-and-train protections are in place and operating. Let's say further that the training works so effectively that approximately every person displaced is able to obtain a new job on graduation.What proportion of those new jobs will pay -...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job; Discussion threads 2007-05-31
Don't hide from global competition: Everyone has some pundit with whom, for whatever reason, they are ideologically in tune, and with whom they consistently agree. My ZDNet readers have me (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...choke, cough). I have Fareed Zakaria, Editor of Newsweek International.I have strong difficulties with people who are...; Tags: Economic Policy, Outsourcing; Blog posts 2007-05-31
Lou Dobbs and illegal immigration: This is a technology blog where Im supposed to discuss technology topics. On occasion, I dive into economic issues that relate to technology, such as antitrust, or more relevant in the case of this blog, outsourcing and skilled immigration through the H-1B visa program. Illegal immigration from Mexico and H-1B...; Tags: Outsourcing, General, Economic Policy; Blog posts 2007-05-03
Business Intelligence and Manufacturing: Major Applications of Business Intelligence Software in the Manufacturing Industry: With the increasingly competitive environment in the manufacturing industry and the many challenges the industry currently faces, manufacturing companies need to use all the tools at their disposal to operate more efficiently and increase revenue. Faced with intensifying global competition, manufacturing companies need information management solutions that allow them to...; Tags: Business Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing Company, Business Intelligence System, Manufacturing; White papers 2007-04-01
Integrating Oracle E-Business Suite 11i in the Cisco Data Center: Ever-increasing customer demands, volatile market forces, and global competition compel today's enterprise to deliver greater goods and services to customers at a lower cost. The Oracle E-Business Suite is an extensive set of business applications developed to assist enterprises in addressing these challenges. The E-Business application framework is a flexible...; Tags: Data Center, Oracle Corp., Environment, Oracle11i, Oracle E-Business Suite, Cisco Systems Inc., E-Business Application Framework, Data Centers, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Software; White papers 2007-03-28
Save time by automating the way you build, deploy, and monitor Java applications: Developers have better things to do than piece together builds, follow checklists full of release commands, copy files around on servers, and monitor running programs. Fortunately, what with the global competition for development work heating up, automation can give you back some of your time so that you...; Tags: Java Application, Monitor, Coverage, Java, Automation; Book chapters 2007-02-27
HP's cool dynamic datacenter cooler: HP's cool dynamic datacenter cooler60% of Power for Cooling in DataCenter???The whole point of heat pumps for air conditioning is that you don't have to expend 1 watt of power to remove 1 watt of heat from an environment. The statement that "60% of power used in a datacenter is...; Tags: Data centers, Dynamic Smart Cooling, data center, American Power Conversion Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., United Parcel Service of America Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-11-29
One Laptop Per Child user interface - In pictures: One Laptop Per Child user interface - In picturesTell it to the folks who put out the VHDIt is not anything the author conjured, but what is offered via the 'net.As far as i can tell...the crank remainscheck out the linkhttp://www.laptop.org/download.en_US.htmlYou really need to take out the OLD picture...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, tool, computer, job, One Laptop Per Child project; Discussion threads 2006-11-22
BT exec pins Google as 'our biggest threat': BT exec pins Google as 'our biggest threat'Well, Google will be offering everything on the server side to do voice andvideo over the internet. The only thing Google needs is fat bit pipe into the house or business that will increaingly be provided with many different technologies for less and...; Tags: Corporate communications, INTERNET, Google Inc., British Telecommunications; Discussion threads 2006-06-08