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Aligning business with information technology practices and management can be a tricky business. Baseline gets some advice from Forrester Research on how to best meld the functional aspects of business with key technology role players and everyday practices. Some of these tips include business metrics, pushing IT down the org chart and making business users more independent from IT.
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Articulating a strategic vision about the role of business technology is a significant element of governance. Key strategic governance policies should drive business technology management investment, such as spending levels, your applications, security and data portfolio, and the metrics required for evaluating and justifying information technology investments.
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Economists polled by Reuters had expected producer prices to rise just 0.6 percent in July, and had forecast that core prices would be up only 0.2 percent. A sharp decline in oil prices since mid-July led many investors to conclude that inflation pressures were subsiding. The steep jump in core prices rattled financial markets, driving stock futures down. The dollar gained in value on the prospect of higher rates.
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Washington's move marks an escalation in an increasingly rancorous dispute over the WTO's Information Technology Agreement (ITA) which eliminated duties on a range of high-tech goods from July 1997 to encourage trade.
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Is it the energy-affected economy or the multiple project delays that are hurting Boeing's stock price?
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Taking its cue from the open-source movement in technology--the approach that collective wisdom is better than one designed by a closed group--eCars Now! is a group in Finland looking to shake up the automobile industry from the grassroots.
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Siemens wants to cut 16,750 jobs globally to help Europe's biggest engineering group reach a savings target of 1.2 billion euros ($1.9 billion) by 2010 and boost profit margin levels, Siemens said.
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Look out IBM, HP is gunning for you.
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The candy industry just got a little sweeter, and smaller, with the buyout of Wrigley by Mars and Berksire Hathaway's Warren Buffett.
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The appointment of Leo Apotheker as SAP co-CEO signals a shift in the company's focus to boosting sales and profit margins.
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The outage that plagued Los Gatos, Calif.-based Netflix nicked the company’s record of instant access to rental data and quick-delivery movies.
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IT is seen as essential to ensure children’s safety, but the issues on how to track and report product safety has members of Congress, the Bush administration and consumer groups in a heated debate.
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SAP is set to get a second CEO.
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