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- Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting
- Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...
- Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape
- New BusinessI recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.Patriciahttp://dataentryjob-s.com
- Tags: Blogging, Web, blog, McKinsey & Co., consulting, Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape
- McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of 'Web 2.0 in business' research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I'd argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company...
- Tags: Web, McKinsey & Co., Consulting, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Your Analyst Firm Pitch
- (Question: Do you have anything new and interesting to say?) One of my old Marketing clients recently rang me up. They were prepping for a briefing call with an IT analyst firm. The lead Marketing exec wanted to run by me his thoughts for a presentation deck...
- Tags: Analyst, Firm, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- News to know: FCC and Apple, AT&T; Windows 7; SAP; iPhoto vs. Picasa
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: FCC eyes AT&T, Apple rejection of Google Voice apps full text of letters Garett Rogers: Apple and...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Google Picasa, Apple iPhoto, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Government
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impactPlease, no more added bureaucracyThere will always be savings that can be extracted, but the crux is at what cost. To take a very simple example, electricity here in the Pacific NW is $0.10/KWH. Suppose tomorrow the price was suddenly $10...
- Tags: Saving Energy, McKinsey & Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact
- Forget carbon footprint measures for a moment. How much money could be poured back into the U.S. economy if people spent more time worrying about wasted energy consumption? McKinsey & Company has come up with a number in a new report about "unlocking energy efficiency in the...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, McKinsey & Co., Energy Consumption, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Best Practices in Carbon Footprint Modeling: Going Beyond Inventories and Calculations
- Off late highly competitive economy presents many obstacles to profitable growth and customer retention. In a 2008 McKinsey Quarterly article, "Business Strategies for Climate Change," the authors explain: "... the winners will be companies that reposition themselves to seize the opportunities of a low-carbon future." This statement has been echoed...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Carbon Footprint, Best Practice, Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?
- What's wrong with this picture? At a time where more leading companies than ever are integrating sustainability, not just into their mid term strategy but into the core of their business models, Jack Welch sits awkwardly on the landscape. Jack and Suzy Welch published a missive on sustainability in Business...
- Tags: Strategy, Sustainability, Jack Welch, CSR, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Google replies to cloud computing concerns
- Google replies to cloud computing concernsPeople generally use private vehicles ...... but take mass transit when it makes sense. There is no reason to believe all computing will be moved to public clouds. One other thing: the transportation industry is far more ancient than any utility industry.RE: Google replies to...
- Tags: Managed hosting, Virtualization, cloud computing concern, cloud computing, Google Inc., outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Google replies to cloud computing concerns
- A post on this blog last week asked the question: Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake? After all, a McKinsey & Co. study called "Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing" concluded that adoption of the cloud model would be a money-losing mistake for most large corporations...
- Tags: Google Inc., McKinsey & Co., Data Center, IBM Corp., Cloud, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Women Tech Executive Roundtable: What’s Top of Mind in 2009
- In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, tech leaders talk about the current trends and the business environment for female technology executives. Ann Winblad, partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, moderated a panel with the following speakers: Janaki Akella, Principal, McKinsey &...
- Tags: Women, Podcasts, Gender And Diversity, Internet, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Comments on VMware vSphere Launch
- From time to time, I am sent proactive, preemptive commentary from a supplier. That supplier hopes to focus my attention on something, change my opinion to something closer to their opinion, or in some other away have an impact on my research. Since I'm open to learn from executives, I...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Cloud, Time-to-Value Public Cloud, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake?
- Everything is in the cloud. It certainly feels that way, even though it's patently untrue. Cloud computing is everywhere, it's a buzzword, it's on the tip of everyone's tongues. To the cloud, I say! To the cloud! But new research from McKinsey & Co....
- Tags: Cloud Computing, McKinsey & Co., Data Center, Cloud, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Higher Customer Profits, Lower Risk: IBM Cognos Performance Perspectives Series
- What's top of mind for retail banks? More often than not, the focus is on customer profitability and risk management. Customers are key to higher branch profits. So it's no surprise that more financial institutions are looking to improve the client experience. But success depends on gaining customer insight. If...
- Tags: Bank, Cognos Inc., Performance, IBM Corp., Financial Services
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Aligning Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Lean Six Sigma for Real Business Results
- Lean Six Sigma LSS produces real results in difficult economic times by uncovering process waste, reducing non-value adding activity, and increasing productivity. The benefits are even felt in IT. According to the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, "Companies can reduce application development and maintenance costs by up to 40%." That...
- Tags: Business Process, Application Development, BPM, Lean Six Sigma, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software Development, Operational Planning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Software/Web Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-03-16
- What Cisco???s EnergyWise technology means to Green IT
- What Cisco???s EnergyWise technology means to Green ITUsing IT to make a bigger impact on energy usageGreat blog post! My name is Jennifer Geisler and I am senior marketing manager at Cisco. I find interest in your quote from Forrester research that the top motivation for pursuing Green IT is...
- Tags: Leadership, energy usage, information technology, Green IT, motivation
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?
- (I'm taking a weird or, to make that more polite, unusual step and publishing this at both PGreenblog and ZDNET because it impacts both audiences. Honestly, I'm not being lazy. I swear....okay, maybe a little) For the last several weeks, I've been thinking over what CRM 2.0...
- Tags: Customer, CRM, CRM 2.0, Marketing Claim, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)
- Foolhardy it may be to go out on a limb here to take on my boss (in this carnation I mean my editor, Larry Dignan) and a force of nature that is my fellow ZDNET blogger Dennis Howlett but I have to disagree with both on the subject of viability of the green market....
- Tags: Sustainability, Oracle Corp., Gesture, Dennis, Hugh McLeod, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-02-28
- What Cisco’s EnergyWise technology means to Green IT
- To date, IT pros have given very little attention to the “greening” of the network. Why? Three words: follow the money. According to recent Forrester research, the top motivation for pursing Green IT is to “reduce the energy-related costs of operating IT.” And when compared to other IT energy-drawing assets...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Green IT, Cisco Systems Inc., Energy, EnergyWise, Energy Consumption, Strategy, Management, Doug Washburn
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
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