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- PWC On Tech Sector Going Green: Efficiency, Ambivalence and Pretty Pictures
- PwC is to be congratulated at the very least for the aesthetics of their latest report: Going Green: Sustainable Growth Strategies. This is a truly handsome report with pretty brown coloured text interspersed with striking images of wind turbines, sail boats, happy children, adults playing in autumn foliage and even...
- Tags: Sustainability, Technology Sector, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Industry, Strategy, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- $21.1 bln spent on Internet ads in 2007
- The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announced< ??> that Internet advertising revenues for 2007 are estimated to grow to $21.1 bln, a 25% increase over the previous revenue record of nearly $16.9 bln for full year 2006. Q4 2007 revenues totaled approximately $5.9 bln, making it the highest...
- Tags: Revenue, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Internet Advertising, Operational Accounting, Internet, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- 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
- US venture investments up 10.8% in 2007
- US venture capitalists invested a total of $29.4 bln in 2007, up 10.8% from 2006. The number of deals reached 3,813 in 2007, a modest rise of 5% over 2006, PriceWaterhouseCoopers reports. by AM
- Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Venture Investment, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, AM
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
- Should HIPAA compliance be outsourced?
- CynergisTek, a computing and security consultant, reported on its blog recently that HIPAA compliance audits will be increased this year, thanks to a contract the government signed with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. I admit that the significance of this went right by me at first. Then I went, "whaah?" ...
- Tags: Audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Compliance, Outsource, Assumption, Nothing, Government, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Vertical Industries, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Healthcare, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sued by Sydney Water over IT failure
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sued by Sydney Water over IT failureCall me cynical...What percentage of similarly-sized projects have actually succeeded, in terms of delivering on time and within budget?Contractors bid low to win a project. The customer, overjoyed that they can get what they want for such a bargain, happily go along...
- Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Sydney Water, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-12-01
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sued by Sydney Water over IT failure
- Sydney Water (Australia) is pursuing litigation against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) over the failed Customer Information Billing System (CIBS) project. The core software was supplied by Severn Trent Systems (STS) in the UK. A recent report published by the New South Wales Audit Office, says: Sydney Water is...
- Tags: Project, Information Technology, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Matter, Sydney Water, Strategy, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-01
- PricewaterhouseCoopers CIO: Graham Andrews
- In a CIO Sessions interview, Graham Andrews, CIO of PricewaterhouseCoopers speaks to ZDNet Australia about new wireless technologies the company is deploying at the professional services firm. He also shares his vision for the changing IT landscape and how developments in virtualization and green are adding value to his organization....
- Tags: CIO, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Virtualization, Strategy, Wireless, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management, Storage, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- PricewaterhouseCoopers CIO: Graham Andrews
- ZDNet Australia: Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Graham Andrews of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Thank you for joining us today and congratulations on being ‘highly commended' by the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year judging panel. Graham, how large is the...
- Tags: CIO, Phone, Open Source, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Outsource, Microsoft Windows Vista, Organization, Outsourcing, Virtualization, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Hardware, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Online advertising at $4.2 billion in Q3 (maybe)
- Internet advertising revenues reached an estimated new record of $4.2 billion for the third quarter of 2006, representing a 33 percent increase over $3.1 billion in Q3 2005 and a 2 percent increase over the Q2 2006 total of nearly $4.1 billion, according to a joint announcement of the Interactive...
- Tags: Advertising, Internet Data, Marketing, Metrics, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, online advertising
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- How to Stay Up to Date With Important IT Knowledge
- Across industries, companies have been investing heavily in addressing new regulatory requirements. Not surprisingly, the early focus for most organizations has been on achieving compliance and reducing risk. But as companies meet and look beyond these initial objectives, how well are they positioning their compliance programs to meet the next...
- Tags: Information Technology, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Compliance
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Food for Thought: Ready for RFID?
- Companies must find innovative ways to create value, mitigate risk, and ensure compliance. One innovative, common approach to responding to these challenges is improving information tracking across the supply chain. The authors' believe that the new Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, if implemented wisely, can largely serve the above objectives. The...
- Tags: Food, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Author, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Identity Management Case Study: What We Did for a Not-for-Profit Organisation
- The client is a large not-for-profit organisation headquartered in the US. The IT Operations Department faced exploding Help Desk costs for password resets alone and had accumulated an unmanageable number of databases and directories. It was recommended that a centralised access and Identity Management solution capable of delegated administration and...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, identity management, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, access management, application integration, help desk, password, database, information technology, security
- Case studies 2004-12-23
- Identity Management Case Study: A Major US Construction Materials Company
- The client is a US-based Fortune 500 company that manufactures building materials for the construction and remodeling industries. The first challenge was the need for a holistic security plan to proactively mitigate threats of intrusion, highlighted in the initial project we were engaged to perform and secondly, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance....
- Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, user provisioning, identity management, customer service, audit, security
- Case studies 2004-12-15
- Does Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Effect Acquisitions?: What Directors Need to Know
- CEOs and CFOs of public companies are getting ready to meet another Sarbanes-Oxley deadline. For each fiscal year ending on or after November 15, 2004, management must assess and report on - and external auditors must independently assess and report on - a company's internal controls over financial reporting. The...
- Tags: Auditor, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2004-11-16
- Venture investments in Q3 2004 fell by 15% (VentureOne) or by 26% (PWC)
- After five consecutive quarters of robust growth, the research concern VentureOne found, the amount venture capitalists invested fell 15% in Q3 2004 to $4.6 bln, from $5.4 bln in Q2 2004. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association, venture investing in Q3 fell by 26%,...
- Tags: Q3 2004
- Blog posts 2004-10-31
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Section 404 - Practical Guidance for Management
- This paper is designed to assist management in its efforts to satisfy its responsibilities established by the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. The paper is based on rule-making and guidance available as of July 2, 2004; accordingly, as new rules or modifications or interpretations to...
- Tags: Guidance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Section 404, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Financial Services, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2004-07-01
- £151.6 mln spent on online ads in UK in H1 2003
- The latest report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau UK (IAB UK) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) indicates that online ad spending in the UK totaled £151.6 million in the first half of this year, representing 2% of overall ad spending in the region. The IAB/PwC findings indicate that £81.3 million was spent...
- Tags: online advertising, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Interactive Advertising Bureau
- Blog posts 2003-12-18
- Internet ad revenues up 5% QTQ, up 20% YTY in Q3 2003
- Internet ad revenue in Q3 2003 came in at $1.75 billion, a 5% increase over the second quarter and a 20% rise over the same period a year ago, according to estimates from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The latest PwC quarterly report, sponsored by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), found the numbers...
- Tags: Q3 2003, revenue, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting
- Blog posts 2003-12-09
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