Trading places
Blog Now, I’m no financial expert and I need a calculator to work out the football scores - but apparently, the trick these days is to maximise the effectiveness of your trading algorithms and strategies by maximising the speed with which systems...
[February 9, 2008, 19:28]
Techno-Economics
Blog Entitled “Corporate software strategies: Maximising value, mitigating risk” - this is a new piece of research that comes up with a very broad macro-level set of ‘revelations’. As the software market continues to consolidate around large vendors...
[November 26, 2007, 13:44]
Internet Marketing, the Magic Wand to Make Your Business a winning Venture
Blog It incorporates several online marketing strategies, including SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SEM (Search Engine Management), link building, ad sense marketing, Banner marketing, PPC (Pay per Click) Management etc.
[December 21, 2009, 6:48]
Gartner: Innovation and accountability
Blog These ideas could be developed into products or business strategies. Integrating emerging technologies is an important source of innovation for the business,” said Jackie Fenn, Gartner vice president on Monday.
[April 10, 2008, 16:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Many ERP project teams simply don't communicate how they will help realise key business strategies and therefore they fail to achieve full organisational buy-in. We ensure all stakeholders fully understand how the ERP project will help them realise...
[November 7, 2003, 15:55]
The BPM Technology Convergence - II
Blog A Rich Domain model comprising of fine grained objects, interfaces & strategies typically supported by a well-defined O-R mapping layer and encapsulated by a thin service layer comprising of coarse grained interfaces, implementing application...
[April 20, 2009, 16:55]
Digital personality types - what's yours?
Blog BT’s message is about developing unified communications strategies and systems to help reach people in appropriate ways, using the right comms methods for each personality type. Most likely to use social networking to manage business relationships...
[March 17, 2009, 7:44]
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and IT survey statistics
Blog Now, SATA RAID backplane enclosures not being the sexiest item on the IT newsreel, he conjured up a press release with the following theme, “Two thirds of SMEs risk bankruptcy in the next 18 months if they fail to adopt progressive storage...
[June 17, 2009, 7:49]
Will the iPhone set Apple on a roll in the enterprise?
Blog But countering this knock on effect of sales into business is the fact Apple has never really gone full out to attach this market at all.With the cost cutting strategies of Dell and HP still putting Mac out of that competition (though with $18...
[September 2, 2008, 12:03]
Saving 50 million Euro with Linux and Open Source
Blog Time to seriously look at following the Gendarmerie's lead, lest we're collectively branded as incompetent, or worse, for not pursuing strategies which minimise ICT costs, bringing budgetary risk to our employers and shareholders.
[March 12, 2009, 8:17]
Gartner: If there's one thing you should do
Blog Guido Jouret, chief technology officer for the Cisco Emerging Technology Group, thought it was that while there were many things occupying the IT managers attention, from green IT to compliance, these were not too difficult to understand or to...
[April 8, 2008, 23:15]
Wednesday: Beware the booth virus
Blog I have an engineer's gut mistrust of marketing departments, I instinctively flinch from positioning strategies, and I regard happy-clappy ain't-we-clever presentations with the deepest suspicion. It says so on my business card.
[May 16, 2003, 17:59]
Microsoft presses on regardless with OOXML SDK
Blog Or that investors would stay with companies that follow such strategies," he wrote in a PDF. Durusau has an interesting take: oponents to OOXML are just being nasty: ""What is puzzling in this day and age of quarterly reports and returns is that...
[March 13, 2008, 10:27]
Note to exhibitors at 3GSM/MWC
Blog We may want to cover your exciting innovations/partnerships/strategies, but if you're putting yourself up against the big boys then you are just asking for your announcement to be buried or forgotten.
[January 25, 2008, 13:34]
Vista 'really good, really' says MS. 'Like we care?' says world
Blog The details are yet to be revealed, but the prime target is the increasingly annoying Apple - which has clearly goaded Microsoft beyond endurance by having an OS that people actually love, having a cross-platform one-message approach that actually...
[July 9, 2008, 8:46]
Mobile application strategies & ecosystem domination
Blog But only yesterday I was discussing the state of mobile application development strategies in advance of a conference I am attending next week with Nick Jones who is a VP & distinguished analyst at Gartner.
[October 9, 2009, 6:22]
Will Greenwash survive a recession?
Blog I popped a question during a panel debate around whether green strategies would survive a real financial crunch? Previously you might have been caught between IT and HR and it helps us get difficult projects underway in the business".
[April 10, 2008, 19:18]
Late entrant strategies for Visafone and Etisalat Nigeria
Blog Still, later entrants can succeed by adopting distinctive positioning and marketing strategies. Little known Alheri is backed by Nigeria’s leading Business magnate,Alhaji Aliko Dangote. As the newly licensed cdma and Gsm operators commences roll...
[July 21, 2008, 14:03]
Late Entrant strategies for Visafone and Etisalat Nigeria.
Blog Still, later entrants can succeed by adopting distinctive positioning and marketing strategies. Little known Alheri is backed by Nigeria’s leading Business magnate,Alhaji Aliko Dangote. As the newly licensed cdma and Gsm operators commences roll...
[March 14, 2008, 16:09]
The OSC's open letter to Becta
Blog Adoption and implementation strategies Today, Friday 13th, Becta's Open Source posturing is exposed as a sham, empty spin covering 'business as usual' political sleaze. Here's the full text of a very angry letter, sent today to the educational...
[June 13, 2008, 15:10]



