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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
- Cisco's Q4: Things are looking better - but let's not get too happy just yet
- Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said the company saw some return to normalcy during the fourth quarter specifically a "dramatic difference" from the large swings in order patterns from quarter to quarter that the company had been seeing during the year's first three quarters. But in a...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- HP releases new eco-reporting tools, goals for imaging products
- Here's a number that would awe even Carl Sagan: 53 trillion pages. That's the number of pages that Hewlett-Packard estimates will be produced in A4 equivalent printer output in 2010, with nearly 90 percent of that coming from commercial offset printers. At this rate, the global carbon...
- Tags: Cartridge, Hewlett-Packard Co., Imaging, Tool, Printing, Gingras, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks
- SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming...
- Tags: Sustainability, SAP AG, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Midwest Healthcare Provider Achieves Efficiency Boost and Cost Reduction
- Medica is a regional healthcare provider headquartered in Minneapolis and active in the Upper Midwest. To better manage its rapidly growing and diverse employee base, Medica required an advanced performance management process that would link employee goals to the organization and corporate mission. The team also wanted to integrate the...
- Tags: Performance, Cost Reduction, Softscape Inc., Health Care, Medica, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Operational Planning, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to India
- WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to Indiais this 'change we can believe in'?We thought Bush was ignorant about the job market, but Obama is downright anti American and in bed with the big and greedy corporations.RE: WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to IndiaWow. Linux...
- Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Good Business, IBM Corp., layoff, IBM layoff, job
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to India
- A big round of layoffs is expected in IBM's U.S. global business services unit, with some of the jobs heading to India, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The number of jobs affected is unknown and IBM didn't comment on the workforce reduction. But...
- Tags: Job, Layoff, Wall Street Journal, IBM Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- 10 ways to be a good manager during a recession
-  Guest post via TechRepublic's Polly Schneider Traylor. For more posts like this see the 10 Things blog. It’s clear that the current recession is not going to be a fleeting phenomenon. Managers need to learn how to lead under extraordinary marketplace pressures and...
- Tags: Layoff, Recession, Staff, Polly Schneider Traylor, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Benefits, Human Resources, Career, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- HP cuts base pay for execs and employees; Will tweak benefits to cut costs
- Amid a tough fiscal first quarter report and weaker than expected demand, HP is cutting base pay for executives and its workers. The cost cutting was mentioned by HP CEO Mark Hurd on the company's earnings conference call on Wednesday. HP met Wall Street expectations in the...
- Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Benefit, Mark Hurd, Action, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- IBM, Juniper make global cloud computing push
- IBM continued its major push into cloud computing with announcements today that ranged from the launch of global "overflow clouds" to a testing ground for cloud apps - all part of a Blue Cloud Initiative for businesses. Statement Back in November, the company unveiled a series of...
- Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Cisco May Cut 2,000 Jobs. But That's Not A Layoff.
- Cisco CEO John Chambers, in pursuing another billion dollars of expense reduction, just said on the networking gear company's earnings call that the company could reduce its work force by 1,500 to 2,000 people. But he's not considering a layoff, he said. A companywide layoff,...
- Tags: Job, Layoff, Downsizing, Cisco Systems Inc., Workforce Management, Networking, Human Resources, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Cisco's Q2 sees weaker sales, profits; no widespread layoffs planned
- updated: Despite the uncertain economic challenges in the future and a quarter that saw weaker sales and profits from a year ago, Cisco Systems remains optimistic about its ride through the downturn and is looking ahead at the recovery by focusing on a realignment and reorganization plan instead of widespread...
- Tags: Revenue, John Chambers, Layoff, Sales, Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Dell to record Q4 charge of $280 million
- Dell said today that it plans to record charges of about $280 million, or 11 cents per share, for its fourth quarter, $135 million of which stems from a long-term workforce reduction plan. The remainder is related to stock-option expenses. Dell has been trimming expenses, all part...
- Tags: Stock Option, Dell Computer Corp., Workforce, Stock Options, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Benefits, Personal Finance, Payroll Solutions, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- AOL lays off 700 due to ad meltdown
- AOL, a unit of Time Warner, is laying off 700 employees, in part due to a falloff in advertising revenue thanks to a weak economy, as well as recent structural changes intended to "refocus" the online behemoth, according to AllThingsDigital's Kara Swisher. AOL CEO Randy Falco sent...
- Tags: Advertisement, America Online Inc., Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- SAP job cuts - a time for opportunity?
- News that SAP is cutting 3,000 jobs in an effort to save €300-350 million is a good thing. No - it's not fun if your name gets pulled out of the hat but the company would have been crazy to do nothing or keep quiet. Given it is only about...
- Tags: Job, SAP AG, CODA, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- More layoffs: Seagate cuts 6 percent; Oracle cuts hundreds, not thousands
- It's only been a couple of days since Seagate Technology replaced its CEO and now, as promised, here comes not just a round of layoffs but also some salary slashing for executives and management-level staff at the company. Seagate's news follows rumors this week that Oracle has started slashing jobs,...
- Tags: Layoff, Oracle Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, Workforce Management, Sales Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- 10 reasons IT certification will be important in 2009
- Guest post: In the midst of staggering business and economic turmoil, you need all the tools at your disposal to help shore up your career prospects. See why TechRepublic's Erik Eckel believes IT certification will become increasingly important for IT pros and the organizations that rely on them. You can...
- Tags: Certification, Information Technology, Organization, IT Certification, IT Certification Program, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- NPR announces layoffs, cutbacks; First large reduction in 25 years.
- National Public Radio said today that it is being forced to do something it hasn't had to do in 25 years: hand out layoff notices. According to a Washington Post report, NPR will let go 64 of its 889 employees, or 7 percent of its workforce, to...
- Tags: Layoff, NPR, Post, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Sony to layoff 16,000 employees, loses charm among consumers
- Is Sony losing its charm? The world's second-biggest consumer electronics maker plans to eliminate 16,000 jobs -- making it the largest reduction announced by a Japanese company since the credit crunch spurred a global recession, according to the Bloomberg wire. According to the report,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Layoff, Electronics, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
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