Input predicts growth in knowledge management
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A new report predicts that the federal market for knowledge management solutions will grow by almost one-third in the next five years to more than $1.
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Learn to identify companies ready for a breakout
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Management's predictions turn out to be right on target.
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From vision to technology to system, the promise and practice of performance management continues to develop. This white paper explores the evolution of performance management, the systems involved, the benefits that can be realized and the next steps you want to consider when formulating your own strategy.
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By Foo Eu Jin  MULTIMEDIA University (MMU) has moved to incorporate more innovation into its learning environment via a software development knowledge technology transfer programme with IBM.
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By Busrin Treerapongpichit, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb. 5--Investment capital is generally accepted as an important factor  to strengthen a company, but for Morio Co, human capital in the form of  innovation and creativity is key to standing out from the crowd.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Most industry observers agree that the CRM-software market is picking up speed this year and will continue to do so next year. And most also agree that venture capitalists have been waiting for several years to make their next moves regarding the startups they have backed through the thin years.
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After years of hearing that investing in IT was a smart strategic plan, business executives seem to have gotten the message, according to a new Gartner CIO survey released today -- but only when the dollars are going to technology efforts that have visible benefits for the bottom line, primarily externally facing initiatives involving customers or partners.The good news is that, despite the softening economy, IT budgets are going up 3.3 percent across the nearly 1,500 companies that Gartner surveyed. The data that matters for IT execs: Budgets for companies focused on bottom-line-oriented efforts are increasing 4.9 percent, said Mark McDonald, a Gartner Group vice president. Those organizations whose IT strategy involves only an efficiency focus will typically see budget increases of just 1.7 percent.The survey shows that a sea change has occurred in IT priorities, McDonald noted. The top three priorities in 2008 are improving business processes, attracting and retaining new customers, and creating new products and services. The sea change is the third priority, which was the No. 10 priority in 2007. Gone from the top three is reducing enterprise costs, which has slipped to No. 5. The decline of cost-cutting as a priority and the rise of innovation show the sea change that has occurred, McDonald says.But IT managers hoping for a return to the 1990s glory days of annual budget increases of 15-plus percent will be disappointed, McDonald said. In that era, IT budgets were driven by technology initiatives done almost for their own sake, as businesses both experimented with the new Internet and began to use technology widely within their walls. "Today, it's more about specific business needs," he said, "We're seeing strategies well grounded in business operations changes, not chasing a fad."And it's not CIOs driving the budget growth; it's the C-suite executives who now finally see IT as a business enabler, McDonald added. If anything, CIOs who promote IT as a force for business change were typically dismissed as self-interested. He noted, "Calling attention to yourself is never very positive."Although there is a mounting possibility that the U.S. economy may be entering a recession, McDonald doesn't believe IT will see its budgets slashed, as happened in the 2000-2001 recession. That recession came after years of unbridled IT spending whose specific business benefits were often unclear. The more moderate budget growth predicted for 2008 won't give businesses the same easy cuts they had then, he noted. "If you cut IT's budget by 10 percent, you might just see a 0.2 percent effect on the whole budget," McDonald explained, "You can get more bang for your buck by lowering [overall] operations costs through investing in better IT." That's why businesses are looking to increase IT spending for bottom-line-oriented initiatives, he said.
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A small company learns to think big -- meeting the needs of its enterprise-class customers -- by building an infrastructure it can count on.
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A Gartner Inc. survey of some 1,300 CIOs in 30 countries found that they plan to spend more IT dollars this year, but they must target the money into areas that foster growth, such as business intelligence and improved business processes.
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A six-step plan to identifying great growth stocks -- and riding their success.
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Dominant small caps in emerging industries can make it big. Real big.
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Back in the go-go â90s, business meetings were awhirl with arcane buzzwords clearly inspired by last-minute visits to Dack.comâs Web Economy B.S. Generator. IT workers were often left to raise a brow and wonder just how much commitment was required to feel fulfilled in a virtual partnership.
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Even when companies get huge, they can keep growing quickly.