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- Going beyond the status quo to improve online services
- FCW.com reports that the House is seeking new technology to better reach Spanish speakers. Specifically, they're researching commercial human-based and machine-based foreign-language interpreter systems that will, for the time being, provide only English-to-Spanish services. The move will save lawmakers from the trouble of hiring bilingual staff to update FirstGov en...
- Tags: Value at Risk, intangible value
- Blog posts 2005-08-05
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- Copyright associations want enforcement for free
- The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...
- Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Microhoo lessons for open source
- Microhoo lessons for open sourceThe truth is UGLY!... and it hurts!Sob, sniffle, wimper, wimper ....LOL....I think you summed it all up when you mentioned..."corporate open source backers"IMO thats NOT open source. Those are the companies striving to make money from the concept. Now you'll have all the NBM'er Microbrains running...
- Tags: F/OSS, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- Does social media really correlate with the bottom line? Color me skeptical
- Does social media really correlate with the bottom line? Color me skepticalSocial Media ROIOK, so maybe you don't want to build a report off of Charlene Li's report YET... but I'd keep my mind open on the issue. A LOT of people decry the notion that measuring value in...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, social media, Does social media, ROI
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- 'Quality Scores' For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A 'Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All'
- Patrick Keane spent four years at Google, before becoming chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive which owns CNet and ZDNet. Now he’s in his third month as chief executive officer at Associated Content, the “people’s media†company. And...
- Tags: Keane Inc., Web, Quality, Content, Associated Content, Channel Management, Engineering, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut'
- All five investment banks that existed a year ago are gone. These are firms which put their own capital and the capital of big institutional and individual investors at risk, to merge or acquire companies. And were supposed to be experts at...
- Tags: Capital Structures, Finance, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Mortgages, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- U.S. wields larger influence on sustainable companies list
- Oh goody, it's list time! This one is somewhat of a role model ranking of The Global 100: Most Sustainable Corporations inthe world, published by Corporate Knights magazine and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors. It was actually released at the World Economic Forum last week, but I don't get to go...
- Tags: Imaging, Microprocessor, E-business, Document Management, Web Technology, Semiconductors, E-business/E-Commerce, Processors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Internet, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Journal of Management Excellence - Creating Value
- The principles underlying TVI are as old as control theory. Accountants audit a company by aligning money, information, and the flow of goods—or core business processes, in more modern terms. It begins to go wrong when information is lacking or when money flows do not align anymore to the core...
- Tags: Indicator, Performance, Economic Value Added, TVI, Economic Value-Added Analysis, Performance Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- 'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why Upgrade to Oracle Database 11g?
- The key value propositions of Oracle Database 11g and the faster and smooth upgrade process make it compelling for businesses to consider upgrading older Oracle databases. Upgrading provides businesses with access to new functionality and ensures that an Oracle database is fully supported by Oracle. There has to be compelling...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Database, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls
- Tech, telecom join up to beat back trollsa larger problemThe laws concerning patents, copyrights, and trademarks have spiralled out of control. What was once protection for a short period of time for something truly inventive has become indefinite protection for any casually obvious concept.The "intellectual property" experiment has failed. We...
- Tags: E-mail, telecommunications
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Most powerful brands: Sure Google is No. 1, but Apple shines as does tech overall
- Millward Brown is out with its annual ranking of most powerful brands and Google is the top dog, but let's not forget the broader technology story here: Six out of the top 10 brands are technology companies. Apple and Blackberry brands are surging and folks even like their wireless carriers...
- Tags: Google Inc., Brand, Brand Equity, Apple Inc., Millward Brown, Branding, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- What Yahoo could bring to Microsoft: Some media sense
- Yahoo launched Shine, a fashion and beauty site targeted at women, and the move illustrates one of the biggest assets the portal could bring to Microsoft--some media sense and the ability to target demographics. In fact, if Yahoo really wants Microsoft to raise its bid perhaps it...
- Tags: Women, Yahoo! Inc., Media, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Finance, Gender And Diversity, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'
- At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'
- NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'Most tangible elementProjects, especially challenging ones, tend to focus on their most tangible and short-term measurable aspects. Budgets and schedules are tangible. Whether a server is in place or not is tangible. Whether an application is accessible to the...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Project, NakedIT, information technology, JP Rangaswami, Business Value
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- The balance sheet on Windows Vista
- The balance sheet on Windows VistaThat which sits on a store shelf is entirely differentthan sitting in a consumers home (MS just ask Sony on the PS3 up until recently). For the way users use the Windows OS, the perception of good enough is a stalling factor to migration....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Balance sheets, MSFT, Microsoft Windows Vista, balance sheet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- ROI is so Business 1.0: not
- As social computing technologies start to make their presence felt in larger enterprises, the ROI question looms large in people's minds. Or rather the CFOs mind. Like it or not, any enterprise project is going to require a check cutting and unless it is something that goes under the departmental...
- Tags: Conversation, Social Computing, ROI, Sales, Assumption, CFO, Forrester Research Inc., Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Is open source the stock flavor of the month?
- Is open source the stock flavor of the month?Sun needs a management changeThe board had a chance to really shake things up with the departure of Scott McNealy. Too bad they played it safe and appointed Jonathan instead of replacing the leadership team. McNealy and company were simply...
- Tags: stock, hardware, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- I Heard on Line Backup Is Free!
- The decision as to the suitability of on line backup to one depends very much on the type of user and the type of data worked with. The value of the data must somehow be measured tangibly in monetary terms. In effect, the intangible value of the holiday photos may...
- Tags: Value, Backupanytime, Backups, Productivity
- White papers 2007-08-16
- Analyst: ROI doesn't apply to SOA
- I like the way Niel Macehiter once summed up the value of ROI calculations, as it relates to SOA or any other IT project: its a formula usually conjectured after the fact to justify expenditures. Cost-justifying SOA is like building a car, then trying to calculate the ROI...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI/TCO, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, ROI, strategic bet
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
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