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Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...

Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-19

IT Manager for GameStop Ireland Selects SmartDraw for Increased Productivity, Lowered Costs

Sankar Nayar is IT Manager for the Ireland branch of GameStop, the world's largest video game retailer. Nayar is responsible for the seamless running of all I.T. infrastructure and retail applications to support the business. One of the biggest challenges was to describe software development methodologies using Unified Modeling Language...

Tags: IT Manager, SmartDraw, Sankar Nayar, Nayar, Software Development, Retail, UML, Development Tools, Vertical Industries, Software/Web Development, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-02-13

Additional Resources

Getting on the wavelength

There's a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website's Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like...

Tags: Knowledge, Social Media, Accountability, Perception, Internet, Public Relations, Blogging, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Trust: the Satyam Partnering Disaster

The images above, taken from Satyam's website, are now worthy of the fail blog. The shock waves rippling through the markets following Satyam's chairman and co-founder Ramalinga Raju's admissions of accounting fraud are world news, being dubbed 'India's Enron'. You...

Tags: Satyam, HCL, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Sharks can never sleep

Corporations are like sharks, who have to keep moving forward to breathe...or they sink and die. I recently participated in Cisco's 'C-Scape' first virtual forum online; a surprisingly basic attempt at allowing remote attendance to their San Jose California briefing given the...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-17

Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Will Boot Camp drive Leopard sales

Gregg Keizer over on Computerworld posted an warning for Boot Camp users: The news was no secret: Apple had spelled it out on the Boot Camp download page and in the EULA end user license agreement included with the beta and posted on the Apple site. "The term of...

Tags: Apple Inc., Sales, Boot Camp, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management, Storage, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-10-02

Arun Nayar for Microsoft Dynamics partner of the year

Arun Nayar for Microsoft Dynamics partner of the yearElizabeth Hurley Chose DynamicsYou just made my day.Regards,James

Tags: Business structures, Arun Nayar, Microsoft Dynamics partner, Microsoft Dynamics, partnership, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-06

Arun Nayar for Microsoft Dynamics partner of the year

With my ZDNet blogging colleagues finding ways to mention everyone from Anna Nicole Smith, to porn star Stormy Daniels, in recent blog posts, I figured it was time to find some way to bring some star firepower to "All About Microsoft." Lucky me: I stumbled onto a great...

Tags: Dynamics CRM, Channel, Systems integrators, Dynamics ERP

Blog posts 2007-03-06

David Burke dissects Apple's response on SecureWorks

David Burke who is a very sharp reader decided to chime in on Apple's seemingly firm denial that SecureWorks supplied nothing of significance to Apple for the Apple Wi-Fi security patch. This isn't the first time Mr. Burke has weighed in here on Real World IT, he took John...

Tags: SecureWorks Inc., Maynor, Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-25

Apple strongly denies getting information from SecureWorks

Apple strongly denies getting information from SecureWorksStrong wordsGeorge:That is a strong denial. Thank you for posting that.apologies...are in order from those persons that have been accusing Apple of "parsing" words. This is as strong an indication so far that M&E and SecureWorks have not been playing this thing...

Tags: SECURITY, Blogging, Apple Inc., SecureWorks Inc., Maynor, JetJaguar

Discussion threads 2006-09-25

ZFS vs. Apple X-RAID

ZFS vs. Apple X-RAIDQuestionsWhy use RAID 0+1? I and many of my storage friends prefer 1+0. Mirrored stripes seems more simple than striped mirrors.Is SATA competitive with SCSI? What are the transfer rates?Would you jump on the ZFS bandwagon in a production environment? I would do the customary "don't buy...

Tags: Storage, ZFS, RAID, Apple Inc., Serial ATA, Apple X-RAID, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-12-08