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Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?: I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...; Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-05
McKinsey on Corporate Philanthropy: Mind Your Own Business: McKinsey on Corporate Philanthropy: Mind Your Own BusinessInternational Longevity CentreJoris - keep trying, trends are moving your direction. You will get traction and maybe you need to reach beyond the traditional ommunity relations types. In fact CSR Europe is running a specifc effort on demographics which maybe of interest to...; Tags: Corporate Philanthropy, McKinsey & Co., Joris; Discussion threads 2008-02-29
McKinsey on Corporate Philanthropy: Mind Your Own Business: If only the Big 4 and the top consultancy firms could run on sustainability thought leadership white papers instead of free cash flow, 2008 would surely be a banner year. The latest epistle is from McKinsey who this week publish an insightful survey on corporate philanthropy. The...; Tags: McKinsey & Co., Philanthropy, NetSuite Inc., Survey, Business Goal, Marketing Research, Marketing, James Farrar; Blog posts 2008-02-28
McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle: McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No CattleFurther Thoughts on McKinseyHere are some thoughts on McKinsey from Francis McInerney (www.northriver.com) that speak along the same linesThirteen years after Sean White and I published The Total Quality Corporation which showed how companies can make money...; Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, McKinsey & Co.; Discussion threads 2008-02-23
McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle: Two separate reports show a massive disconnect on sustainability between C-level strategic intent and real world performance. In the report Confronting Corruption, PWC surveyed executives and whilst 80% reported their companies had an anti corruption management programme, only 22% were confident such programmes were effective. On climate change, the McKinsey...; Tags: Sustainability, McKinsey & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Corruption, Others, Climate, James Farrar; Blog posts 2008-02-21

McKinsey's look into Web 2.0 in the enterprise: The collection of techniques and technologies known as Web 2.0 is really only just beginning to have an affect on the enterprise. We are in that phase of market development where in Web 1.0 enterprises just started to realize that the internet is the new brochureware. Enterprises are starting to...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-06-04
McKinsey says buy SaaS: McKinsey says buy SaaSMcKinsey BlessingI guess that means SaaS is going mainstream! Good news - as this is really a better way for organizations to purchase complex but non-core software.Tom O'Bhttp://tomob.wordpress.comCustomization capability of SaaS applicationsI just wanted to comment on the computerword article's reference: "Feature functionality, although good enough...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Hosted Solution, software-as-a-service, McKinsey & Co., software; Discussion threads 2007-05-03
McKinsey says buy SaaS: An opinion column in ComputerWorld by two McKinsey consultants this week explains why they believe its Time for the IT Industry to Take Notice of software as a service. Quoting McKinseys research last year that found a jump from 38% to 61% in the proportion of CIOs planning to use...; Tags: Market research, Business models; Blog posts 2007-05-03
More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge: The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly rigorous new works by McKinsey & Company as well...; Tags: Crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Business Process Management, Architecture of Participation, Blogs, Business Models, Wikis, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Two-Way Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, SOA, RSS, Open APIs, Mashups, Lightweight Service Models, Hype, Governance, Global SOA, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups; Blog posts 2007-04-03
McKinsey: Offshoring software development numbers: Widely cited figures predict that by 2015, roughly 3.3 million US business-processing jobs will have moved abroad. As of July 2003, around 400,000 jobs already had. Other research suggests that the number of US service jobs lost to offshoring will accelerate at a rate of 30 to 40 percent annually...; Tags: job; Blog posts 2003-10-22

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New hybrid delivery security architecture: Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...; Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing; News items 2008-07-16
Ticking bombs in enterprise land: I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKennaÂ where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...; Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-07
New reports try to demystify the "low carbon IT" equation: As we all know, information technology is both a culprit and a hero when it comes to carbon emissions. Various research companies estimate that information and communications technologies contribute about 2 percent of the global carbon footprint, and the larger IT companies have been falling all over each other to...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Footprint, Carbon, Strategy, Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-06-25
Business imperatives theme dominates Forrester's IT Forum conference opener: Forrester Research, the Cambridge, Mass. market research and analysis firm, kicked off its influential IT Forum conference today in Las Vegas with a keynote address by founder and Chairman George Colony on CEO success imperatives. What the success imperatives do you have? Colony asked a series of...; Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-20
A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?: A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?Was semantic web designed by amateurs?My take is that 'semantic web' is implicit in the journalist's reference to 'professionals' and his phrasing is simply saying that Web 3.0 adds expertise to structure the chaos of Web 2.0. I'm not too keen on the way...; Tags: Channel management, Semantic Web, Web, Web 3.0, Web 2.0; Discussion threads 2008-05-14
Spigit mashes up social software to reveal innovation: Take the idea of community, sprinkle liberally with process, add a dash of prediction market thinking and a soupcon of reputation analysis, stir gently without too much mashing and you have InnovationSpigit. I really like this idea because it solves one of the...; Tags: Innovation, Idea, Spigit, InnovationSpigit, Research & Development, LDAP, Leadership, Games, Strategy, Business Operations, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-01
News to know: Microsoft interoperability; Bypassing FileVault; Woz; Black Hat; More benchmarks: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft pledges interoperability--again Reading the fine print on Microsoft's new open-source promises Larry Dignan: Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stack Dana Gardner: Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke? Dana Blankenhorn:...; Tags: Black Hat, Interoperability, Disk, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-22
News to know: Globalization, randomness, iPhone, robots and more...: Notable headlines: The subprime mortgage meltdown has triggered a global investment tsunami, with foreign governments and equity firms rushing to bail out U.S. financial institutions. Singapore-based Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. acquired $4.4 billion in Merrill Lynch stock and took an option to buy an additional $600...; Tags: U.S., Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Robot, Technology, IBM Corp., Government, Globalization, Robots, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Investment, Strategy, Management, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-26
What the statistics are telling us about SOA: There were plenty of surveys and studies around SOA adoption and issues this past year. Overall, the surveys point to widespread interest in SOA, and results among those companies with SOA already in progress. Here are a few highlights from this year's studies of SOA adoption: ...; Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-12-20
FAQ: All about coal--a necessary evil: FAQ: All about coal--a necessary evilCoal can be replacedCoal can be replaced within 20 years in the United States if a real effort is made.The Energy Information administration of the DOE has projected that if the lieberman/McCain climate change bill were passed with the No International option then by 2030...; Tags: coal; Discussion threads 2007-12-03