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Nintendo: 2009's 'World's Best Company'

BusinessWeek released 2009's Top 40 list of World's Best Companies, and the top dog may come as somewhat of a surprise. Our lovable Mario jumped on the Goomba heads of Apple, Google, and Amazon to save the princess and reach the No. 1 spot, making it...

Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., BusinessWeek, Kearney, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Leadership, Sales, Management, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Additional Resources

Cisco's random acts of green-ness

Two disclosures before I get to the body of this entry: First, an apology to the Linksys executive that I spoke with several weeks (maybe, ahem, two months ago) about their sustainability issues. Sorry it has taken so long to actually WRITE this post. Sorry for having...

Tags: Sustainability, Supply Chain, Cisco Systems Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Global Management Consultancy Boosts Client Service, Competitiveness, With Extranet

A.T. Kearney Procurement & Analytic Solutions, a unit of the global consulting firm A.T. Kearney, is a leading provider of technology solutions for procurement challenges. While deploying a series of Web-based tools for clients, the unit identified the need for a more effective collaboration mechanism between its consultants and clients....

Tags: Procurement, Extranet, Microsoft Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Networking, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-12-01

A.T. Kearney, Inc. Improves Ability to Manage and Share Intellectual Capital Across the Organization

A.T. Kearney, Inc. is one of the world's largest management consulting firms. With a global presence spanning major and emerging markets, A.T. Kearney provides strategic, operational, organizational, and technology consulting services to the world's leading companies. It needed to leverage expertise in specific knowledge areas and apply it not only...

Tags: Oracle Corp., A.T. Kearney, Manage Inc., A.T. Kearney Inc., Strategy, Management

Case studies 2008-04-01

Marketing Services Firm Develops Clear Access to Remote LOB Applications

National Marketing Resources is a 450-employee firm based in Kearney, Missouri, that provides sales and consulting services for entrepreneurs and small businesses in real estate investment and e-commerce. They needed to train new associates in the process of logging in to a new desktop and helping them understand the difference...

Tags: Marketing, Clear, Terminal Services, Help Desk, Servers, It Operations, Hardware

Case studies 2008-03-12

Marketing Services Firm Introduces Sleek SOA With Server Upgrade

National Marketing Resources, a 450-employee firm based in Kearney, Missouri, provides sales and consulting services for entrepreneurs and small businesses in real estate investment and e-commerce. NMR needed a reliable, security-enhanced, and easily managed Web and application platform for LINKS. This platform would simultaneously provide TCP-bound connections for internal rich...

Tags: Marketing, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Server Upgrade, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Real Estate, Microsoft Windows, Server Upgrades, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Hardware

Case studies 2008-03-06

Microsoft and Daisy will make Word speak

Microsoft and Daisy will make Word speakDaisy TechnologiesThere are many resources out there that benefit those with visual impairments, as well as those with dyslexia, while successfully converting pdf, Word docs and other files into DAISY playable formats. Dolphin creates a tool called EasyReader that can play DAISY talking books...

Tags: Word processors, PRODUCTIVITY, E-books, Microsoft Office, Dolphin Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Daisy Technologies, Microsoft Word

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

A.T. Kearney Consultants Stay Connected to Ideas With Connectra

A global management consulting firm with 2,500 consultants in 36 countries, A.T. Kearney helps corporations develop and implement ideas that improve their products, services, and business relationships and translate into competitive advantage and profitable growth. They found that they could not use IPSec VPNs from their client networks. In these...

Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., A.T. Kearney, Connected Corp., VPNs, Ssl/Tls, Network Security, Networking, Security, Authentication/Encryption

Case studies 2007-11-28

Microsoft and Daisy will make Word speak

Microsoft is extending its lead in assistive technology alongside the Daisy Foundation. Microsoft will make a Daisy plug-in available on Sourceforge early next year which will read Word 2003 and 2007 files out-loud. The plug-in will act as a converter between the Open XML...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Daisy, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Pigs Might Fly in Iowa

According to the Hawk Eye, Iowa has the distinction of joining Nevada and Wisconsin on our list of recent state government project failures. In this case, A.T. Kearney was hired for $3.4 million and saved the state $2.9 million. From the article: “When [the project] started, the payment to...

Tags: A.T. Kearney, Iowa, Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-07-26

2007 Chrysler Town & Country

We found Chrysler's launch of the 2008 Town & Country minivan at the Detroit Auto Show interesting enough that we asked to review the current version, a 2007 Chrysler Town & Country. Despite its peppy engine, the soft-sprung Town & Country is a handful in urban driving. The car makes...

Tags: leg room, Town & Country, Daimler AG, cup

Product reviews 2007-03-05

Reducing Consulting Costs with Productized Content

High-priced, open-ended consulting deals often fuel enterprise software implementation failures. As a result, a trend has developed among consulting companies and software vendors to package services into pre-defined, discrete units, decreasing risk and lowering costs for the customer. As examples, see here (pre-configured content shipping with software), here packaged services,...

Tags: Packaged Services, Implementation

Blog posts 2006-10-13

Productized Services - AT Kearny

Jason Busch at the SpendMatters blog has a great post describing AT Kearnys procurement-related consulting offerings. His description of AT Kearnys services is instructive for anyone interested in packaged services: Procurement Solutions is focused on creating repeatable, expert solutions to Spend Management versus a more traditional...

Tags: Packaged Services, Consulting

Blog posts 2006-10-10

56% of users with Internet-capable cell phones use e-mail and Internet

56% of people with advanced cellular phones said they use the devices to access the Internet or check email at least once a month, a significant jump from the 36% who said the same in 2004, A.T. Kearney said.

Tags: Internet

Blog posts 2005-11-05

SOA and M&As: the power of two, or less than zero?

When Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation a number of years ago to form Unisys, the combine ran a series of TV ads that bragged about offering "the Power of Two." Most mergers and acquisitions don't result in the Power of Two, of course -- they more likely give you...

Tags: merger, Web, Web service

Blog posts 2005-08-17

Report: Offshoring only one drain on tech jobs

Report: Offshoring only one drain on tech jobshow about if we fire all the guys who did the studyshipped those jobs overseas and THEN asked them to re-evaluate their findings ?Successful businesses hire far awayFrom the article:"Companies founded in the Bay Area will typically maintain the majority of their workforce...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, job, offshoring, outsource

Discussion threads 2004-07-15

On the outsourcing hot seat

On the outsourcing hot seatLet's see, how can I put this..."Q: Who wins and who loses from offshore relocations? A: The Indian companies and Indian employees win, and so do the American companies that outsource. For the American companies, this clearly is an instrument for them to improve their productivity,...

Tags: Government, Benefits, Strategy, outsourcing, outsource

Discussion threads 2004-01-20

A.T. Kearney: Spending on e-business

Companies are now spending 20.3% of their IT budgets on e-business initiatives, with the biggest chunk of the spending being allocated to networking and infrastructure investments. The study, which is based on a survey of 150 IT executives at companies with more than $250 million in annual revenue, reveals that...

Tags: e-business

Blog posts 2003-09-07

A.T. Kearney Improves Ability to Manage and Share Intellectual Capital Across the Organization

A.T. Kearney, Inc. is one of the world's largest management consulting firms. With a global presence spanning major and emerging markets, A.T. Kearney provides strategic, operational, organizational, and technology consulting services to the world's leading companies. The company wanted to leverage expertise in specific knowledge areas and apply it not...

Tags: Oracle Corp., A.T. Kearney, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Search, Management

Case studies

RFID Will Bring Great Benefits for Retailers

Retailers can expect extensive inventory and labor cost savings from the adoption of Radio Frequency IDentification RFID technology, but some consumer product manufacturers will face higher costs and delayed benefits from adopting the technology. That is the conclusion of a new report on RFID and the Electronic Product Code EPC...

Tags: Benefit, RFID, Retail, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

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