Innovation
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CIOs: How to innovate during a recession
Insight perspective Downturns are no time for businesses to sit still, says an academic. Here's a plan for nurturing new ideas in any economic climate.
Tags: R&D, Innovation, E-learning, IT Budget, Investment, CRM, Innovation, CIO, recession, strategy
APAC CIOs score 'poor' in managing assets
News Region's IT chiefs rate themselves well in executing IT and governance but give low marks on competence in technology and asset management, new survey reveals.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Innovation, SOA, India, International Data Corp., Singapore, Cloud Computing, CIO
Innovation essential despite downturn
News Asia-Pacific CIOs must balance innovation with frugality, while creating a direct link between IT and the organization's revenue in 2009, Gartner says.
Tags: Innovation, Business models, Decision-making, Cost control, Green IT, Virtualization, Asia-Pacific, Innovation, Cloud Computing, Gartner Inc.
Can innovation come in SMB packages?
Blogs I'm in Kuala Lumpur for a couple of days this week, serving as moderator for a panel discussion at the APEC SME Technolo...
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
News Redmond wants to see a single world patent body established to "promote innovation, enrich knowledge, and encourage competition".
Tags: Business applications, Patents, Patent, Innovation, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, Texas, Free Software Foundation, Patents, XML
IBM bets on Brazilian innovation
News Big Blue's new initiative to stimulate development of Brazil's nascent tech industry is the latest sign of the country's rising power.
Tags: Hardware, Consumer Technology, IBM Corp., India, Training, Innovation, venture capital, entrepreneur, China, private equity
Call for bolder U.S. innovation policy
News Academics and tech industry representatives discuss potential federal reforms, saying it's time to bring together powerful constituencies who would benefit from new policies.
Tags: Green IT, Investments, Business plans, E-waste, Conference, Innovation Policy, Innovation, Department of Energy, University of California, Sun Microsystems Inc.
How to come up with big ideas
Insight perspective For a company to get ahead, it's got to innovate. An IT director offers some ways to encourage fresh thinking in business.
Tags: Innovation, Wiki, Director Of Information Technology, Idea, Supplier, Innovation, Portal, Intranet, CIO, Web 2.0
R&D push to help firms ride on recovery
News Small and midsize businesses can play major part in process of innovation, which is catalyst for economic recovery, says CompTIA official.
Tags: Innovation, Investments, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, India, Thailand, Information And Communication Technology, Innovation, Australia, Malaysia
Trujillo: Australia is racist, anachronistic
News Former Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo calls Australia racist and claims the local economy only became "developed" in the last decade.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Wireless, Innovation, Compensation, Australia, Environment, Telstra Corp., CEO, British Broadcasting Corp., job
Asian firms get help on innovation
News Accenture opens Singapore facility aimed at helping Asia-Pacific companies innovate amid changing economic and business conditions.
Tags: Innovation, Business, IT Services, Asia-Pacific, Innovation, Singapore, Accenture Ltd., Consulting, cost management, managing director
UK minister: NHS must take tech risks
News Even though there is a recession, National Health System practices should embrace technology to make efficiencies, according to a junior minister at the U.K Department of Health.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, Technology, cost savings, Innovation, Europe, Messaging, Procurement, London, leadership
Tech innovations for tough times
News Companies like GE are using alternative techniques, such as a method pioneered back in Stalin's Soviet Union called "theory of solving inventor's problems", to make R&D more efficient.
Tags: Innovation, Business development/management, R&D, General Electric Co., Training, Tool, Innovation, Soviet Union, TRIZ, GEN3 Partners
Asian banks not in 'hibernate' mode
News Region's financial entities will lean toward innovation to ride downturn--even the more conservative will invest to be more efficient, say industry watchers.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, Business planning, Project management, Pay-for-performance, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Asia, IT Budget, IT Services, Financial Company, Innovation
Tech innovation for rent, anyone?
Blogs Business ideas are a dime a dozen, but great killer-app ideas are always hard to come by. I've often wondered how th...
