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The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring

Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...

Tags: Accenture Ltd., Restructuring, Senior Executive, Executive, $119mm, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Accenture lays off senior execs

Accenture said Thursday that it will thin its ranks of senior executives. The company, which announced the layoffs in a statement, said it will cut its senior executive ranks by 7 percent. Accenture will take a charge of $128 million to cover severance and other layoff costs....

Tags: Layoff, Accenture Ltd., Senior Executive, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-20

BusinessWeek: Apple is most innovative company

BusinessWeek has posted its list of The 50 Most Innovative Companies and Apple tops the list. According to the survey taken by "senior executives around the world," Apple ranks number one with the reason given by 47% of respondents is its products. While the 2009 list includes some stalwarts...

Tags: BusinessWeek, Senior Executive, Apple Inc., BW, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-28

Additional Resources

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Moffat no longer with IBM as fallout from insider trading scandal continues

IBM conformed today that Bob Moffat, a senior IBM executive arrested last month as part of an FBI insider trading sting, is no longer with the company. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Insider, IBM Corp., Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-02

The Real Reason Executive Participation Creates IT Project Success

Most mid to large scale IT projects, whether they are ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence, or other business transformation initiatives last at least 3 months, and most are 6 months to 2 years or more depending on the size, scale, and scope of the company and IT effort. Combine this with...

Tags: Information Technology, R3Now.com, Reason Executive Participation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software

White papers 2009-10-28

AT&T encourages employees to speak out against net neutrality

AT&T's top policy exec - aka lobbyist - has turned to AT&T employees for a last-chance campaign to flood the FCC with anti-net neutrality messages. In a memo that's starting to circulate around the Internet, Senior Executive VP Jim Cicconi tells encourages the employees, their friends and family to "join...

Tags: FCC, AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, Cicconi, Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-20

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

How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally

Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...

Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-29

eBay names Sun veteran head of data center strategy

EBay has appointed Dean Nelson, a Sun Microsystems veteran, to be in charge of its data center strategy. Nelson will be senior director of global data center strategy, architecture and operations. Nelson is founder of Data Center Pulse, a non-profit data center industry group. ...

Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., eBay Inc., Dean Nelson, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Live Webcast: How AOL Analyzes Human Capital Metrics to Drive Strategy

Every part of every organization has heard the cry for more metrics, more analytics, more fact-based decision-making. For some functions, it can be difficult to get your story heard if you are not talking about sexy metrics that are directly impacting things like revenue. But that doesn't mean your story...

Tags: Strategy, Metrics, Webcast, America Online Inc., Tableau Software, Human Capital, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-08-28

How do you look on the Internet? MIT Sociable Media Group's "Personas" shows how you look

A friend (yes, I have a few) pointed out an interesting "installation" that can be found on MIT Sociable Media Group's website.  It's called Personas. Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath. This installation allows a person to...

Tags: Team, Media, Reference, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Personas, Internet, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-24

Apple: 'Continues to study' Google Voice apps; AT&T: We played no part

Apple, AT&T and Google have responded to an Federal Communications Commission inquiry into the Google Voice app flap. Apple says Google Voice apps interfere with iPhone functionality. AT&T says it had no role in the App Store approval process. If you recall, Google Voice related applications were booted from Apple's...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Federal Government, Smart Phones, Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions

United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.   You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...

Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Directory: 100 technology experts on Twitter

a few things missing from your listnice list, a little heavy on the zdnet side though (gee, color me surprised). but what the heck is that jr rafael/raphael dude doing on there? have you seen his police record?missing from your list: @eSarcasm geek humor gone wild. fyi, here's a better...

Tags: Twitter Inc., technology expert

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Surgical decisions: How to change business executives' minds about information technology

Let's face it, without IT, there's no business. But, IT has always been viewed by business executives as a cost center, versus a strategic asset. A relatively new work published by Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross puts forth some ideas how to turn this thinking around. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Aetna Inc., Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-04

FCC eyes AT&T, Apple rejection of Google Voice apps (full text of letters)

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an inquiry over AT&T and Apple's rejection of Google Voice and related applications. The FCC sent letters to all three companies (Techmeme, FCC site). The crux of the inquiry revolves around whether and how AT&T was consulted on the matter. The...

Tags: FCC, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Section, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Letter, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-31

A CIO's take on the home PC support dilemma

This is a guest post by TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, CIO of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. You can find more posts like this in TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. This week, Bill Detwiler posed the following question in a poll: Should corporate help desks support home PCs? The responses...

Tags: Home PC, Employee, PC, Computer, Productivity, Help Desk, It Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

WSJ: Dell working on mobile Internet device

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell is working on a mobile Internet device that would run on Google's Android operating system and compete with Apple's iPod Touch, which is basically an iPhone without the phone service. It's tough to say whether this device will ever...

Tags: Wall Street Journal, Dell Computer Corp., Mobile, Music Player, Internet Device, Mobile Internet Device, Journal Story, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Media Players, Digital Music, Wireless And Mobility, Digital Media, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Exec: Yahoo positioned for more efficient advertising buys

A Yahoo executive this afternoon spent some time talking about the ad business - specifically Yahoo's approach to advertising and how it's different from that of Google and Microsoft. Joanne Bradford, a veteran media advertising executive who joined Yahoo in September as senior  vice president of U.S....

Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-10