Optimism in entrepreneurship: Key to overcoming obstacles
Adam Campbell April 24, 2024 3:27 pm
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The most powerful piece of software inside Microsoft may be a $40 application from a tiny vendor called Userland that Robert Scoble uses to write his weblog. Scoble, part of the Windows marketing team, publishes his personal observations at the “Scobleizer Weblog” http://radio. weblogs.com/0001011. His unedited daily ramblings give the
When I first became a Chief Information Officer, at First Interstate Bancorp, we’d gone through quite a bit of tumult, acquiring a number of banks, including several with hefty real-estate loans. When the crash of that market came, in the early ’90s, there wasn’t anything we could do technologically to
For Paul Zazzera, chief information officer at Time Inc., 2004’s technology budget is going to look a lot like 2003’s: Flat. Zazzera’s budget, which serves the flagship magazine division at sprawling media giant Time Warner, will feature a few high-priority projects such as updating Time’s classified-advertising system. Whether he undertakes
The Microsoft Office 2003 launch on Oct. 21 included plenty of proclamations from chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates and other honchos about how the new suite of word-processing, mail and presentation software can enhance productivity. But the most interesting item may be a white paper by Microsoft that
Avon Products is joining the trend to hire programming talent in foreign countries, where wages are lower. But it has added a twist to the offshore bandwagon—by insourcing, rather than outsourcing, the work. The cosmetics giant is calling its pursuit “offshore insourcing,” according to Harriet Edelman, Avon’s chief information officer.
LeapFrog Enterprises may enjoy strong demand for its educational toys, but the Emeryville, Calif. manufacturer could use a primer on how a supply chain needs to work as Christmas approaches.The basic lesson: a company should think twice before putting off the deployment of new software for managing the manufacturing and
The most powerful piece of software inside Microsoft may be the $40 application from a tiny vendor called Userland that Robert Scoble uses to write his weblog. Scoble, part of the Windows marketing team, publishes his personal observations at the Scobleizer Weblog . His daily ramblings, unedited by corporate brass
Sometimes it’s hard to know exactly where the pain in your information technology comes from. Use this worksheet to zero in on a diagnosis. Directions: Download this Microsoft Excel document. Use this worksheet every six months to assess your level of departmental pain. Match your total score to the scoring
XQuery 1.0 is a language that allows users to search for and extract information from databases and documents. Here’s how it works, who is using it, and whether or not it’s right for you. 1. Our company has a lot of data stored in the XML format. TRUE FALSE 1.
Sometimes it’s hard to know exactly where the pain in your information technology department comes from. “It’s like a patient who tells a doctor that his knee hurts, when it’s actually his hip that’s causing the fundamental problem,” says Ann Browne, vertical market director of Lawson Software’s service process optimization