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- Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose
- The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...
- Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom
- Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...
- Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Depths of Peril (dmg)
- Depths of Peril is a single player action role-playing game RPG with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city. Barbarians...
- Tags: Leader, Depth, Soldak Entertainment, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-08
- Bad leadership causes failed IT
- IT failures continue to plague organizations across virtually every industry. Poor business leaders who don't possess the skills needed to manage change effectively have created this mess. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Leader, Failure, Mike, Leadership, Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Interview: HP information management maven Rod Walker describes how BI empowers business leaders to innovate
- In health care, customer retention, energy and oil management, and for global risk reduction and compliance, BI is offering some of the best payoffs from IT and datacenter investments, says Rod Walker, vice president for information management at HP's Consulting and Integration group. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Information Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Leader, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Podcasts, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Study: Early gadget adopters 'conceited' and 'arrogant'
- In a new study by Mindset Media and Nielsen Online emerges a more nuanced profile of gadget lovers who tend to buy new technology early and often. The old profile? Wealthy young males. The new? Assertive leaders who are, ahem, low on modesty. ...
- Tags: Leader, Horn, Leadership, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- US wireless operator satisfaction leaders: T-Mobile, Alltel, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel
- T-Mobile had the highest ranking for wireless retail sales satisfaction in the J.D. Power survey, with 716 out of 1,000 points, followed by Alltel (714), Verizon Wireless (706), AT&T (693) and Sprint Nextel (654). Scores declined in four areas that J.D. Power says drive overall wireless retail sales satisfaction. Ranked...
- Tags: J.D. Power Associates, Alltel Corp., Sprint Nextel Corp., Leader, Verizon Communications Inc., T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Wireless, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- 10 early signs that someone will make a great leader
- It's important to identify individuals who have leadership potential so that you can help them step into that role when they're ready. Here are some behaviors and qualities that may indicate you have some promising future leaders on your team.This download is also available as an entry in our 10...
- Tags: Leader, Bill Stronge, Leadership, Management
- Download resources 2008-05-07
- The recruitment sector is the leader of advertising market with 25.7% share
- The recruitment sector continued to lead the market with 25.7% market share, up 0.9 points on the second half of 2006, according to Internet Advertising Bureau. Second was automotive with 11.9%, while Technology (10.4%) overtook Finance (10%) for the first time to take third place. Other areas of growth were...
- Tags: Advertisement, Leader, E-business, Recruitment Sector, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- OOXML: Unofficially yes, formal announcement Wed.
- PCWorld reports that the ISO has been telling member countries that OOXML will be approved, official announcement to be distributed Wednesday. Of the 87 countries taking part, 61 approved the draft standard DIS29500, 10 disapproved and 16 abstained. There's more work for...
- Tags: Leader, ISO, Committee, MSFT-employed Bell, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Leadership, Quality, Business Operations, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunch
- CIOs and technology managers are less strategic than they were a year ago, pondering job jumps and still struggle to deliver projects on time and under budget. Yet these folks want to be more intertwined with their respective businesses. A Harvey Nash/KMPG survey of 258 respondents paints...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Leader, Survey, Marketing Research, Outsourcing, Strategy, Marketing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- For Unix: hire a leader; for others: hire a manager
- For Unix: hire a leader; for others: hire a managerbad guys - good point: made the change NT;)Classic MBTIOne recommendation : "So how do you tell the 1-5% of good guys from the 95 -99% of bad guys? Don't use "bad guys" just use "the rest".Your distinctions of Leader and...
- Tags: Leadership, leader, J-type, P-type, Unix
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- For Unix: hire a leader; for others: hire a manager
- This is the eleventh excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From Chapter 3.2: For Unix: hire a leader; for others: hire a manager The most difficult issue to get your...
- Tags: Job, CIO, Data Center, Information Technology, Leader, Leadership, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader
- Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leaderUmmm"We have to do a better job of involving the community,even if we own the operating system 100 percnt lock stock and barrel"That needs a serious rethink. Make money from support and forget the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Java development tools, Development tools, Middleware, Leadership, JBoss, Red Hat Inc., job, industry, leader
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader
- Only three months into the job, newly named Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst is ready to talk about what he sees as the Linux company's big flaws. No doubt, Red Hat is the leading open source company but ''I don't think we've done a good...
- Tags: Job, Red Hat Inc., Leader, Industry, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- European Fashion Leader Significantly Reduces Customer Waiting Times With Dell | EMC and Oracle Solution
- The Veldhoven Group is a multinational company which designs and markets three premium fashion labels: Sandwich, Stills and NO-NO. The company needed to upgrade its Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system, which uses an Oracle 10g RAC database. This involved replacing the existing server infrastructure so that it could provide users...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Leader, EMC Corp., Veldhoven Group, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Storage, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-03-18
- Ten leaders brainstorm U.S. global leadership at Rockefeller University
- Ten leaders brainstorm U.S. global leadership at Rockefeller UniversityRE:Rockefellerhttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/health_care_industry_transition_to_digital.htmRE: Ten leaders brainstorm U.S. global leadership at Rockefeller Universityhttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/health_care_industry_transition_to_digital.htm
- Tags: Leadership, U.S. Global Leadership, Rockefeller University, leader
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- The great man isn't any more
- The great man isn't any moreYou have noticed...... that Microsoft is attempting to buy Yahoo!, and not the reverse. Somehow the company Mr. Ballmer leads so enthusiastically is more successful than the company once led by two enablers.And you have also noticed, I expect, that Google continues to profit...
- Tags: Leadership, Contribution, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, leader, great man, Google Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- The 10 most dangerous species of IT team leader
- After yet more research into the various species that inhabit the world of IT, Jeff Dray returns with a new set of taxonomic classifications. This time, he turns his attention to the team leader. Since competent and sociable team leaders don't make for great storytelling, he's selected some of the...
- Tags: Team, Information Technology, Leader, Species, Team Leader, Team Management, Leadership, Management
- Download resources 2008-02-12
- Leading Soft Drinks Company Supports Flexible Working Strategy With Sophisticated Collaborative Technologies
- The "People Enablement" programme at soft drink leader Britvic aims to help employees to benefit from better remote working and collaboration. Building on top of its extensive Microsoft infrastructure, Britvic is introducing sophisticated collaborative tools, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. They are designed...
- Tags: Strategy, Leader, Beverage, Microsoft Corp., Britvic, Food & Beverage, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Manufacturing, Management, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2008-02-01
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