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Bankers borrow from industrialists
Blog Methods such as LEAN, pioneered by Toyota in car manufacturing, have been successfully applied to improve back-office processing of financial products. (Financial PLM) On 4 May 2007 Barclays Wealth won an award for Financial Services Operational...
[March 17, 2008, 13:54]
NCC grasps at straws to save telecom consumers in limbo- Contd.
Blog The Commission states that it has not appointed any person as consultant for obtaining licenses and reiterates that it operates an open door policy whereby prospective licensees can approach any office of the Commission and apply for any category...
[March 22, 2008, 15:42]
NHS spend on IT - How would you make savings?
Blog And that was only for Windows and Office. So chancellor Alistair Darling may cut back or even scrap the National Program for IT, NPfIT, saying that the expensive system isn't needed right now. A spokesperson for the BMA said that this system is...
[December 8, 2009, 6:49]
People still don't know!
Blog I mentioned OpenOffice.org, the free open source office suite and challenger to Microsoft Office, which everybody has heard of. I have been hustling for freelance work, now that I’m a part-timer at The Ministry.
[August 4, 2008, 9:49]
Mac Book Air: Our Honeymoon is over
Blog I’m currently sitting in the office; I have two Mac laptops in view (company property). The first, a normal Mac Book and the second a new Mac Book Air. I find myself thinking why! Why would I buy a Mac Book Air?
[March 29, 2008, 11:33]
Virtual Dreaming (revised)
Blog The reality is that humans running office word processors and other human related programs don't really task a computer enough to keep it busy even 25% of the time.added 8-6-2008 I realize that it truly is operating a second image inside a "bubble...
[August 7, 2008, 8:03]
De-Motivation: Blame The Sun
Blog The findings showed that 39% of office workers believe Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder, or ‘Summer SAD’, detracts from their motivation to work, while 8% said they are more likely to call in sick during the summer months.
[August 7, 2008, 12:03]
Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition
Blog As I have been going around alternately prodding my friends and family to try Linux, or asking them if they thought it would be possible, one thing I have heard repeatedly is that a lot of people use Microsoft Office and are concerned about their...
[August 15, 2008, 14:39]
Mobile marketing Innovations will drive Etisalat Nigeria
Blog He Etisalat will deploy innovative Mobile Services like the mobile cam.Mobile cam allows 3G subscribers to dial into a gadget at home or office and be able to take a quick look around the location and even record voices.
[April 3, 2008, 13:56]
Weather Station Net-book
Blog Broadcast radio and television stations (and others) paid for the teletype connection to the local regional weather office and got all of the weather information for free. A netbook would work because it is small and low-powered.
[September 3, 2008, 22:03]
Why Offshore Outsourcing to India ?
Blog This Business Process covers payroll system and transaction processing Services comes in back office Services operating process. Companies have grasped the understanding that they could reduce back office operating costs by turning to service...
[April 18, 2008, 12:03]
The way forward: Mobile health in Kenya
Blog With this technology, it is also possible to send your data wherever you are, so we are even able to send data from the field directly to a central office. My name is Titus Kolongei, and I work as a health information officer with the Division of...
[September 10, 2008, 8:04]
Using mHealth to Promote Development in Africa
Blog And if the data is from a country like the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is a huge country with 26 provinces, you can imagine how difficult it is to transfer the data from each province to the central office where somebody has to key-in all...
[September 12, 2008, 17:29]
When does Copyrighted Software cease to be Copyrighted?
Blog The next thought was : "How idiotic are the US Patent Office people? Suppose I want to use just a piece of it. How small a piece does it have to be before I'm no longer violating the GPL? What my question is really; "At what point does the source...
[September 22, 2008, 8:50]
ISO never learns, IBM does
Blog The ISO ballot resolution meeting, remember, didn't resolve all the issues, and Microsoft has admitted it will get the standardised version of ODF working sooner: Office 2007 will never support standardised OOXML.
[September 23, 2008, 20:18]
Should you be working right now?
Blog Tell it how long you need to work for and everything except your office suite is thoroughly disabled, no web, no games, just work, with no easy way to reverse the result until time’s up. An actor client called me this week with an odd request...
[September 26, 2008, 8:03]
Suppliers
Blog The best known chain has an appalling record for making it is hard as possible to return faulty items combined with a staff of barely skilled callow youth motivated to push whatever head office decrees is this weeks target.
[September 26, 2008, 8:03]
Open Office to the Rescue
Blog I'm not even sure that any of them noticed that it wasn't Windows and MS Office they were using! Case #1: I was just working with Vista booted on my laptop (running one of the few remaining programs I have that requires Vista), when I got a call...
[September 26, 2008, 12:02]
Getting To Grips With Data Security
Blog When the office was the only place we kept business information, life was straightforward - to secure information we emptied our Recycle Bin, did a bit of shredding, closed and locked the office door.
[September 26, 2008, 13:38]
Keeping Home Workers In The Loop
Blog Though many employees are concerned that colleagues will accuse them of skiving if they work from home, workers are more fearful of missing out on the camaraderie, gossip and banter of the office, even though most are probably more effective when...
[September 26, 2008, 14:03]
