Stories by: Thomas Wailgum

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    The trouble with supply-chain best practices 23/10/2010 02:39:00

    Best Practices: It's an often overused term that can apply to literally any decision-making process: parenting quandaries, personal finance questions, buying a house, getting a job, or selecting a puppy breed.
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    In-flight Wi-Fi turbulence: Travellers reluctant to pay 19/10/2010 04:55:00

    In 2008, the number of commercial aircraft that offered in-flight Wi-Fi service totaled just 25, according to market researcher In-Stat. By the end of 2010, however, In-Stat predicts that number should reach 2,000 planes.
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    Data everywhere, but not enough smart management 17/04/2010 01:12:00

    Today, most enterprises are finally facing up to the "data, data everywhere" phenomenon-an awe-inspiring and unprecedented push and pull of data and information needs. The push: Terabytes of data flooding enterprise systems and applications, a surge which Gartner predicts will grow by 650 percent during the next five years. The pull: Savvy users demanding sweeping, individualized access to analytics and business information.
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    5 Reasons Businesses Still Hate Enterprise Software 05/03/2010 04:59:00

    Got Issues? Enterprise software sure does.
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    Xerox buys ACS, tosses 'paperless office' vision 30/09/2009 02:55:00

    It's a pretty slow business week when Xerox's $6.4 billion proposed acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services dominates the news.
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    Tech vendors: ignore those dollar signs behind the curtain 22/07/2009 02:50:00

    As is the case with selling McMansions, Mercedes SUVs and 63-inch HDTVs, pushing expensive technology products and services during a global recession isn't an enviable task. Late last year, when the economic meltdown began and corporate IT budgets went under the CFO's knife, tech vendors had to hastily reevaluate their marketing messages and overhaul their sales tactics.
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    Apple, Dell, IBM among top global supply chains 30/05/2009 03:30:00

    AMR Research released its annual "Supply Chain Top 25" list, and the top dog leading the supply chain pack this year -as it did last year - is Apple.
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    How to Win CFO Friends and Influence Business People 23/04/2009 09:05:00

    Conventional wisdom and decades' worth of IT project failures and less-than-desirable outcomes tell us that every tech-related investment-from a massive SAP ERP rollout to a small Salesforce.com SaaS CRM deployment-comes with some amount of risk.
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    Pirates to Worry You: Chinese Manufacturing Partners 17/04/2009 09:23:00

    Somali pirates who brazenly attacked container ships in the Indian Ocean have garnered a lot of recent attention. But for companies that source products from Chinese manufacturing partners, there are even greater and longer-term business risks due to pirating attacks on companies' intellectual property and supply chains.
 
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