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I once taught logic—mathematical logic—to college students. There was a clarity to it that appealed to me. Things made sense. Technology, unfortunately, doesn’t always conform to logical expectations. In the mid-’70s, I got involved on the tail end of a really sexy project in publishing, creating a system that allowed
After three years of reluctance to invest in new technology companies, venture capitalists have begun to emerge from their Sand Hill Road bunkers—and enterprise software is what they’ve set their sights on. Companies offering customer-management software, systems-integration services or consulting are raking in one of every four dollars of new
An international flight en route to the United States is delayed after a five-year-old passenger’s name matches a name on a terrorism watch list. The Department of Agriculture euthanizes a herd of 450 cattle because it can’t track the individual cows that came in contact with one infected with Mad
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Regardless of a project’s success or failure, there is usually some slice of the government involved. That’s the common theme in 2003’s triumphs and breakdowns, as four out of the six projects below involve government in some way—energy deregulation, wireless number portability, Iraq and the State of New Jersey’s antiquated
Ken Harris has been chief information officer of apparel retailer The Gap since 1999, overseeing a $400-million technology department with 1,500 employees. He’s also held the CIO job at PepsiCo Inc. Q: What metrics do you use to evaluate bottom-line results? A: The valuable metrics are the end-state metrics and
You can’t put a radio tag on a can of soup. That’s just one technical tidbit Campbell Soup Co. is digesting as it investigates using so-called smart labels to better track its products from factory to retail outlet. It affects how Campbell will find a suitable way to put metallic
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There are many ways to gauge the success of a project. But how do you measure the success of the request for proposal (RFP) that outlines the project? If you wait to match a project’s actual return on investment against that expected by the RFP, you’re too late. In fact,
Chairman William Killgallon of toymaker Ohio Art is expecting his company’s stocking to be filled with lumps of counterfeit goods this holiday season. Killgallon isn’t happy about it. Ohio Art, which sells about $37 million worth of playthings such as Etch-a-Sketch tablets and the Betty Spaghetty family of dolls, has