Tag: imported
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The third stage of Vineet’s transformation revolves around the value zone – the part of any business where true customer value is created. In a services organisation like HCL was this in HR? Was this in the financial modelling team? Was this in the manager’s office? No, for HCL the true customer value was created…
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The link between freedom and money, data edition
Commercial services—including those used by Fortune 500 companies—outsourced to India typically consist of information technology outsourcing or business process outsourcing. For example, IBM likely employs the majority of its employees in India, where they process bank records, perform financial analyses, and write software. Chinese workers can no doubt handle these tasks, but given the reports…
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When white-collar workers have opinions
"The mobile revolution has given end-users the power to find new software, new ideas and new content all by themselves," he says. "If our users find a new mobile app that gives a better way to do their expense claim easily and efficiently, they will put pressure on their employer and say, ‘Why are we…
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Spending all your money just keeping the lights on
Researchers have found that IT departments typically spend 75% of their time, money and resources simply keeping things running on a daily basis, leaving only 25% of efforts dedicated to new strategic initiatives. –Getting Control of the Application Portfolio This kind of thing is always suspect, and with the source it’s likely scopes to banks.…
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@Walmart Labs’ Tim Kimmet talks what’s in store for mobile shoppers
"More than 50 percent of Walmart customers have smartphones, and mobile is driving more than 40 percent of Walmart.com seasonal traffic." —@Walmart Labs’ Tim Kimmet talks what’s in store for mobile shoppers
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Touch Screen Precisions
That looks pretty cool: New Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation.
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People seem to be buying Chromebooks
Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300, according to NPD Group Inc. The devices, which have a full keyboard and get regular software updates from Google, are the fastest-growing part of the PC industry based on price,…
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This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
Using RedMonk logic: companies tend to keep what they consider their competative advantage closed source; Google keeps their dev toolchain closed source; Google’s ability to more productive in development (the primary point of a dev toolchain) is a core differentiator for Google. QED. More: This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
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The disposable company
The duration of your working life is now almost certainly greater than the lifespan of a company. –Fail Cheaper, Fail Better
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Open Web Crew Blindsided
Then Facebook began to grow and grow. I remember the first time someone was showing me Facebook—it was Tantek of all people—I remember asking “But what is it for?” After all, Flickr was for photos, Delicious was for links, Dopplr was for travel. Facebook was for …everything …and nothing. I just didn’t get it. It…
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Advice for Dairy Maids
The reality is that it is only the `cash cows’ that are really important—all the other elements are supporting actors. It is a foolish vendor who diverts funds from a `cash cow’ when these are needed to extend the life of that `product’. Although it is necessary to recognize a `dog’ when it appears (at…
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Why your company needs a single P&L
On this week’s Critical Path, Horace gives a great overview of why a functional organization is a better way to achieve goals that are dashed by self-cannibalism FUD; that is: why your company should have just one P&L.
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Corporate Breakfast
One of the odd things starting at Dell was that they have a cafeteria in each building. I’ve never worked at a place big enough for that. Anyhow, they do pretty well with omelettes and refried beans. Slop in some pico de gallo and salsa, and you’ve got a hot sloppy mess only rivaled by…
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Two very different estimates of cloud email usage and forecasts
A while back I posted a quick quote from recent Gartner prognosticating about cloud email. The up-shot was that right now, it’s just about 8% for all types of companies, globally (except India and China for some reason). Someone from SpiceWorks left a comment that arecent survey of theirs indicated something much different, at least…
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No one got fired for buying IBM cloud
So what is the impact of IBM’s acquisition of SoftLayer? This analyst believes this acquisition may be a fundamental signal to competitors that the old world of outsourcing is fading and that the only way to the future is delivery of services via an “IT” utility called the cloud. Just consider that 80% of U.S. buyers indicate…
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How’s Microsoft doing with Yammer?
If we look at it from Yammer’s perspective, it’s been a good year. Being part of the Microsoft family has helped it grow its total user base by 60% in the last 12 months to almost 8 million users, and its number of paid networks has grown by 200%. Plus, Yammer’s 2012 full year sales…
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Heterogenous Systems Management
Increasingly, PC makers are experimenting with Android, given that Microsoft’s Windows 8 devices have struggled to attract consumers, according to analysts. Google promotes Android as a free and open operating system, and many tech companies are already relying on the OS to build their smartphone and tablet products. PC makers will come out with more…
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A surplus of innovation
Adrian Cockcroft, who runs all things cloud for Netflix, called it “technical indigestion.” His group is releasing an open source project a week – including new monitoring tools that came out this week. “We’re driving a lot of innovation but we’re giving people indigestion. There’s only so many blog posts you can read in a…
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