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Downturn chops, delays HK IT projects
News One in five businesses have canceled IT projects that were underway, while over 80 percent are cutting or freezing IT investments, new survey finds.
Tags: IT Governance, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, Survey, Hong Kong, accountability, business strategy, IT governance, monitoring
Firms see need to better risk management
News Companies also believe committing additional resources to risk management can help them create competitive advantage, Ernst & Young survey reveals.
Tags: Security Management, Business security, Risk Management, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, business strategy, compliance, leader, Security Management
User community growing influence on business
News As social networks play increasingly important role in a company's growth strategy, so will their impact on how business policies are formed, say experts.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Privacy, Customer support, Best strategies, User Community, Social Media, Privacy Policy, Terms Of Service, business strategy
Nokia adjusts to regain market share in Thailand
News Company's Thai operations plans to focus on its integrated product and services strategy under a "handsets plus solutions and services" approach.
Tags: Sales strategy, Forecasting, Sales/revenue, Business structures, Mobile, Thailand, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, business strategy, Forecasting, Nokia Thailand
Google data liberation project adds Docs, Sites
News Google says it wants to make it easy for users to export their data in hopes of satisfying customers, as well as critics who contend it has too much power.
Tags: Data Management, Databases, User Data, business strategy, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Internet, Google Docs, Internet company, incentive
Importance of top support often overlooked
Blogs Over coffee a couple of weeks back, I had an interesting chat with a Singapore-based CIO who listed a string of deployme...
VMware and SpringSource: New deal or old battle?
News VMware's SpringSource acquistion looks like old-fashioned strength through consolidation. It needs to be much more to matter.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Business Strategies & Functions, DNA, Red Hat Inc., VMware Inc., business strategy, Oracle Corp., Java, Mobile platforms/communications
Five reasons to kill IT projects
Techguide A recent study highlighted the top five reasons IT experts who killed a project gave for terminating projects prior to completion. Here's some insight on the five.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Project, Survey, business strategy, Michael Krigsman, IT governance, CIO, Strategic Planning, software
Microsoft local chief, top execs grab 'separation' package
Blogs When Rafael "Pepeng" Rollan, managing director of Microsoft Philippines, told the local IT press on May 17 that the comp...
Who's looking after financial services firms' data?
News A survey has found that some financial services companies have no one overseeing their data compliance strategies or have the wrong teams in charge.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, DataFlux Corp., Survey, compliance strategy, integration company, data quality, financial, financial service, data integration, information technology
Microsoft in talks over Windows 7 broadband bundles
News The software giant is talking to mobile operators about bundling Windows 7 with netbooks for 3G mobile-broadband deals.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Broadband, operating system, 3G Network, subnotebook, Microsoft Windows XP, Brussels, Microsoft Windows
PalmOne names new VP for Asia-Pacific
News Handheld device maker PalmOne has named Paul Blinkhorn as its new vice president for Asia-Pacific.
IT sharpens Interpharma's edge
Insight Aligning IT to the business strategy has helped Asia's largest pharmaceutical distributor differentiate itself in the industry, says Interpharma's regional CIO John Dickson.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions, IT outsourcing, ROI/TCO, Asset/resource/knowledge management, Infrastructure/architecture management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications
IT to the rescue
Insight International SOS' CTO Todd Schofield shares how real-time information access has helped the organization provide better medical assistance, even in the most remote locations.
Tags: IT Management
Why your business should embrace Web 2.0
Insight Web 2.0 technologies can be a boon to businesses--find out how in this excerpt from Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom by Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Internet advertising, Wiki, Tool, Enterprise 2.0, Harvard Business Review, Alvin Toffler, social networking, vision
