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- White Paper - Insights Into Business Planning
- This white paper takes a very practical view of the task of preparing a business plan. It is based on the results of a survey, which explores the processes and difficulties associated with the compilation of a plan. Invest-Tech develops and sells a range of financial planning packages - Exl-Plan...
- Tags: Business Planning, White Paper, Invest-Tech, Operational Planning, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance
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- White Paper - Getting New Business Ideas
- The location and development of viable business ideas is as much an art, or matter of luck, as the use of systematic techniques. Certainly, you can use structured approaches, as described below, but the reality is that having the right background, being in the right place at the right time,...
- Tags: Invest-Tech, Business Idea, Productivity, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance
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- CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over
- Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean for your technology department? A lot of upheaval and perhaps one big do-over that starts in 2009. ...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CEO, Technology Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- The candidates on tech
- Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....
- Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Opera 10 will be 'prettier'
- Many users, especially of Apple, found Opera's latest version 9.6 unpleasant on the eye. But the company says its next major update will be prettier. The next major release of Opera for the desktop will be 'prettier' than the current version of the browser, claims the company. ...
- Tags: Opera Software, Lawson Software Inc., Hicks, Web Browsers, Internet, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Opera, browser, Opera 10.0
- News items 2008-10-13
- Negotiating with your hardware vendor 101
- Squeezing the most out of technology budgets seems to be a running theme these days, but customers frequently give up leverage in negotiating hardware deals. According to Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering most hardware negotiations go wrong early on. A customer's maximum leverage occurs when a company is...
- Tags: Leverage, Hardware Maker, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)
- Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or fade away. Why? Companies have other options--software as a service, cloud computing and shared services--that could deliver more value than...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., McDonald's Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- MobileTechRoundup show #150, More netbook talk
- James, Kevin, and I were quite happy to record MobileTechRoundup show #150 and celebrate 3 years of podcasting about mobile tech. Kevin continues to tease me with the MSI Wind and now I am even closer to switching from my Fujitsu U810 to the Wind thanks to Dynamism who sent...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Dual-core, Lenovo Group Ltd., Kevin, WiMAX, Podcasts, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste
- Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...
- Tags: Food, Kitchen, FoodServiceWarehouse.com, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Six money-saving secrets to help stretch your tech budget
- The recent collapse of worldwide financial markets has everyone on edge. If you're like most people, tough times have you looking around at ways to cut back on spending. You might be tempted to impose a freeze on all new purchases of hardware and software, but that draconian strategy only...
- Tags: Software, Dell Computer Corp., PC, Microsoft Office, Discount, Product, Price, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, RSS, Management, Hardware, Internet, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Where would YOU put YOUR money?
- Which of the following tech stocks would you invest your money in? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Stock, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., Investment, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?
- Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, who tells our sister site CNET UK that Apple is planning an LCD-based HDTV that would sport built-in networking and...
- Tags: Network, built-In, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, LCD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussionsPrintingHeather, great topic...many businesses still today rely on printing to get through their day. I am not sure if any can really go paperless. I just think it is next...
- Tags: Printers, Document management, green tech discussion, printer, airtime, green technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...
- Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will HTC be the first to launch a WiMAX-enabled mobile phone?
- Fellow Mobile Tech Roundup podcast co-host Kevin Tofel went to the Sprint/XOHM WiMAX launch event in Baltimore this week and wrote up his thoughts. The event was focused mainly on the devices that support the WiMAX network that was launched the week before and as a mobile guy I was...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Phone, Mobile, Radio, Cell Phone, Nokia N810, WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
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