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A Fading Star As economic events of the past year abruptly put the tech market into a nosedive, i2 Technologies was among the previous high fliers that suddenly found itself in a tailspin. And that was an uncomfortable position for a company whose hard sell sometimes outstripped its ability to
September 6 may go down as a defining date in Kmart chief executive Chuck Conaway’s effort to turn around the one-time king of discount stores in America. Five days before the twin towers tragedy, Conaway announced that Kmart would write off $195 million of assets held on its books that
The revolving door in the CIO’s office can’t help Kmart in terms of continuity on its supply-chain projects. At some point, talented people ask themselves if signing on as the sixth CIO in seven years is a wise career move. “Good candidates will ask what’s wrong with a position that
It’s Monday morning, and the chief operating officer calls you in for advice. The new sales-commission structure is too complicated for the current finance application, so several staffers have been calculating percentages and inputting payments by hand. The upgrade planned for the financial software will take care of this, but
Learning on the Job Qwest Cyber.Solutions hosts, manages and integrates big hard-to-handle software packages from vendors including Oracle, SAP, and Siebel. But parent company Qwest Communications International likes the revenue driven to its networking and hosting businesses. “We are unequivocally committed to the ASP industry and to QCS,” says Lew
Home Depot is becoming an ostrich about the penguin. Just two years ago, the $46 billion home improvement giant became an outspoken proponent of Linux, a variant of Unix that the company championed as a key to overhauling the technology in its stores. But silence surrounding the project certainly won’t
When Sherry Young needs to order supplies, she opens up her Office Depot catalog, calls 1-888-GO DEPOT, and punches in numbers using her touch-tone phone. Young, a personnel assistant for a Holiday Inn in St. Petersburg, Fla., tends to follow a routine in how she buys supplies from the $11.6
One night last summer, David Modine was driving to his stone dealership in Rockville, Md. As he drove up a narrow stretch of residential road, he suddenly found himself stuck behind a tractor-trailer jackknifed at a tight intersection. The truck bore the bright yellow logo of J.B. Hunt, a freight
To share or not to share data? That’s the question facing federal agencies (and the integrators that help automate them) in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It won’t be easy. “There’s 200 years of politics in these cabinet agencies. And federal-to-state boundaries are an even higher hurdle,”
As the man in charge of formulating technology strategy for Delta Air, Chief Information Officer Robert DeRodes knows what it’s like to operate in crisis mode. Already reeling from an economic slowdown, the airline industry has been devastated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent falloff in air