...developing nation that elects to use free software in the construction of its intellectual property and then finds that it has a rather predatory obligation to give back all the...…
...for Target to invest in increased competitiveness and profitable growth. How will Target invest it? Discount retailing lives and dies on competitive pricing. Target sells about $73 billion in merchandise...…
...presented a formula for IT product success. It listed three determining factors: What the product will do for its customers; its affordability or lack of it; and how much disruption...…
...marketing officer (CMO) explained that ABC is calling its new strategy “molecularization.” Based on customer relationship management (CRM) and one-to-one, it’s called “molecularization” because the company plans to turn its...…
...in serious doubt. Also not in serious doubt is the respect our nation’s founders had for consensus itself, perhaps because it is the purest form of the governed’s consent. In...…
...the workplace you’re responsible for. Among the reasons: you can do something about it. The question, of course, is whether the communications environment your employees work in is more thrush-like...…
...cheaper, smarter, and pro-active to make sure anybody can run anything. “And besides, the Big Bosses don’t want to hear breakdowns into cost categories they don’t understand in the first...…
...product for reasons that really don’t matter at all, because that’s the way it is. And one day you find you can’t fill open positions anymore, because the only applicants...…
...rates, and with mafia-like collection practices. No argument — this week’s example of TCO reduction gone wild is extreme, and by now increasingly uncommon. But while your IT shop probably...…
...Once a year they’ll be responsible for turning what they’ve discovered into a proposal for how to improve the IT organization. Some guidelines: Vision: Recommendations should be visionary enough to...…