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Today's Debate: Is the cost villain really tech?: Was it something I said? All of a sudden medical device makers are feeling some serious heat. As the AdvaMed meetings in Washington moved yesterday from the trade show to the issues conference, a lot of people were getting quite defensive. "You might hear...; Tags: Industry, Health Care, Pill, Paperwork, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-04
LXFree (zip): LXFree allows you to draw light plots and generate the associated paperwork. LXFree integrates the design process by attaching data to objects in the drawing. This information can be edited through the drawing or spreadsheet-like reports. Version 0.9.29 is a bug fixing release.; Tags: Paperwork, LXFree, Productivity; Software downloads 2007-10-01
SOX'd? It's the results, stupid: My high school had some strange teachers: one, a geography teacher, genuinely believed the moon to be larger than the Sun; another, whose name and image are as clear to me today as they were then, got herself fired for wearing excessively short skirts and necking with a student. Sadly,...; Tags: information technology; Blog posts 2006-04-04
Simplifying Paperwork Frees Foster Care Staff to Put Clients First: The fewer hours A Second Chance Inc. ASCI staff members spend handling paperwork and other routine tasks, the more time they can devote to helping their clients. Until recently, agency employees were still writing most of their reports by hand and using phone calls or U.S. mail to communicate. The...; Tags: Network, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Paperwork, Advertising & Promotion, Records Management, Marketing; Case studies
Ship-Management Company Cuts Paperwork and Streamlines Operations With New Database: Northern Marine Management NMM used to rely on UNIX technology to manage, process, and distribute its business information. After a period of rapid expansion, however, the performance of the existing UNIX architecture began to suffer. Employees, for example, had to enter data manually and manage large amounts of paper records...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Paperwork, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management; Case studies

Medical Researcher Uses Electronic Forms to Cut Paperwork and Net More Research Time: Employees and visiting researchers at the nonprofit Van Andel Institute VAI cancer research organization found themselves ensnarled in paperwork for everything from processing external lab requests to internal expense reports. Completing, routing, and correcting the myriad of forms robbed them of valuable time that should have been spent on research....; Tags: Solution, Researcher, Microsoft Corp., Form, Paperwork, Team Management, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies

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Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 2): As you know from my previous post, it has been an absolute battle to try and get broadband connectivity to my new house in Canterbury. All the other seemingly complicated "hardware based" products like electricity, gas and water supplies have been easy to set up and continue flowing. So why...; Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-11
OrthoGraph Inventory (msi): OrthoGraph Inventory is dedicated to asset inventory and data acquisition using a Windows Mobile personal data assistant PDA. It can collect information on site with the control of fields, typified data, and fixed lists while enabling users to make measurements. It supports bluetooth barcode readers. The system generates XML, XLS,...; Tags: Asset, OrthoGraph, OrthoGraph Inventory, Asset Management, CAD, Databases, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-07-03
In-class computers vs. labs: In-class computers vs. labswhat happened to the "teaching"Your article left out the teaching aspect. When teaching to a group, via a full lab, isn't attention span better or at least better managed? Isn't individual progress to an assigned task more measurable?Didn't Dell have a program where 2-3 clusters of computers...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, laptop computer; Discussion threads 2008-06-27
(Photos: How UPS Next Day delivers): (Photos: How UPS Next Day delivers)It doesn't!If I order something to be delivered at home, it literally takes a week to get it. They do three attempts to deliver (while I'm at work, of course), come hell or high water - you can't get them to hold it at the...; Tags: United Parcel Service of America Inc., UPS Next Day, photograph; Discussion threads 2008-06-25
IT work is 'boring,' students: IT work is 'boring,' studentsThey're right. It can be boring.It's nothing like where I came from doing CAD drawings and design work.There's a [i]lot[/i] more boring paperwork in this position then I imagined.Why do you think I stop here from time to time?RE: IT work is 'boring,' studentsIts all in...; Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT Work, job; Discussion threads 2008-06-23
Openness: I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...; Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-06-19
Unboxing and first look at the HTC Touch Diamond: The devices just keep rolling in here at the ZDNet Mobile Gadgeteer headquarters and this time we have the HTC Touch Diamond device that was announced at a major kick-off event last month. I didn't attend the event where each attendee is getting a Diamond, but HTC came to Mobius...; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Video, HTC Touch, Image Gallery:The HTC Touch Diamond, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-06-07
Who keeps failing their FISMA compliance?: The recently released U.S Federal Computer Security Report Card for 2008, indicates that several critical to national security departments continue failing to implement the Federal Information Security Management Act FISMA. From a cyber espionage perspective, the lack of prioritization of departments that must...; Tags: Compliance, FISMA, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-27
A brief summary: A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also essentially the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Kuveyt Turk Bank Eliminates Paperwork and Accelerates Human Resources Processes: Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank aims to bring diligence to the interest-free banking system, and to research new fields of investment. Kuveyt Turk wanted to cut the administrative burden on the Human Resources HR departments by empowering staff across the business and eliminate dependence on time-consuming paper-based workflows for absence requests....; Tags: Human Resources, Kuveyt Turk Bank; Case studies 2008-05-01
Sears and the dishwasher that didn't: This is a customer service horror story that has a happy ending. After twelve years of service, our dishwasher finally gave up and died. We looked all over town to find the best dishwasher that would fit in the space currently occupied by the old one and, of course, at...; Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Person, Machine, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-10
Universidad de los Andes Accelerates Academic Processes With an Integrated IT Infrastructure: The Universidad de los Andes University of the Andes wanted to consolidate information systems in a single, reliable, flexible, and scalable database and automate and standardize operations to attract and retain students and have better access to faculty. The challenge was to make management of academic processes easier for students...; Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Strategy, Storage, Databases, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies 2008-04-01
MacDoctor: Two generations ago we thought of doctors as carrying just a single black bag. In one of John Huston's first screenplays, "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," the doctor's black bag is a key device. The doctor, played by Edward G. Robinson, holds stolen jewels in it, but no...; Tags: Doctor, GE Healthcare, Document Management, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-26
TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hack: TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hackSemantic HackHi,Just pointing out that the entire semantic hack projectmay be simple theft, see www.tsert.com/white-papers/nlp.pdfRegards,Tsert.comPierre InnocentRE: TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hackGive me a break! A company thinks they have a great tool, and they have to pay somebody $1M...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, TextWise, semantic hack, promoter; Discussion threads 2008-03-19