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Gartner: Half of All Projects Are Doomed

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Half of all projects involving outside consultants fail to deliver what companies expect, according to another survey by the Gartner consulting firm. Gartner released the results

Poor Systems Fail Missing Kids

Most of the systems that failed Rilya Wilson were not computerized. When the 6-year-old girl was discovered missing from a foster-care home in Miami, Fla., in April 2002, it turned

Enron: Shock to a System

Enron entered bankruptcy proceedings more than 15 months ago, but the headaches remain for former partners and employees. Last month, Texas’ El Paso Electric said it was facing a shareholder

Project Map: Troubleshooting the Six Sigma Way

Six Sigma has become a mainstay at some companies as a management approach for improving everyday business processes—but even these proponents still may not have considered its potential in technology

Tool: How Much Does a Rich Client Cost?

Browser-based applications make sense because of lower software licensing and maintenance fees. But most corporate applications can’t be duplicated well in a browser. Rich clients could change that. This calculator

Scan-Based Trading Still A Work In Progress

It’s electronic commerce come to the checkout counter. Yet if there’s any form of conducting business electronically that can change the relationship between retailers and their suppliers, it’s trading goods

Past-Forward 2

Time may heal all wounds, but it doesn’t necessarily make for healthy companies. News regarding three of Baseline’s recent Case Studies proves that sometimes things get worse before they get

Calculating Costs: Switching to Scan-Based Trading

In a typical retailer-supplier relationship, the retailer manages stock it owns–it purchases goods from suppliers and settles discrepancies in inventory, invoices and promotions periodically through the sales cycle. Scan-based trading

Little Drive Means Big Drama

When an IBM subsidiary set out to refurbish computers storing data for clients, no one could have anticipated the drama that would follow when a pocket-sized, 30-gigabyte hard drive—valued at

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