CEOs See More Hiring, Capital Spending
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A quarterly survey of U.S. chief executives showed they plan to increase hiring and capital spending, despite recent soft economic data, concerns about sluggish job growth and high energy prices.
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Pay for the Washington area's top executives rose significantly last year, reversing the downward trend that set in with the recession in 2001.
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Companies will spend more money next year on information technology and other capital investments compared with 2004, the chief executive of the world's biggest computer company, IBM Corp, said on Friday.
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NEWYORK: US technology executives are increasingly optimistic about the business climate, although plans for increased technology spending remain modest, according to a study.
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Here are a few companies primed for growth.
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WASHINGTON - Companies added 96,000 jobs to their payrolls in September, fewer than economists forecast for the last employment report before Election Day. The figures underscored the modest hiring pace that has become an issue in President Bush's re-election bid...
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 12--North Carolina leaders have gone along with financial incentives to lure business relocations largely out of fear.
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CEO trials, including two that begin this week, have raised vigilance against corporate wrongdoing.
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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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Union leaders may be thinking about the health system in ways more sophisticated and businesslike than many chief executives.
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Amid mixed indications of software industry's health, polled tech execs predict spending rise.
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First-quarter hiring plans among US employers increased from the same period a year earlier, according to a survey released today by Manpower Inc.
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WASHINGTON Chief executives of US companies that outsourced the greatest number of jobs reaped bigger pay and benefits last year than those from other companies, according to a study of executive compensation released Tuesday.
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Chief executives in the Washington-Baltimore region are more optimistic in their hiring plans for the year ahead than are their colleagues across the nation, according to a survey released last week.
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Logistics parks operators expect a hike in business from new tenants in the manufacturing industry, executives and consultants said last week.
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NEW YORK - US companies that outsourced the most jobs in 2003 also offered well-above average pay increases to their chief executives, according to a new study released this morning.
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Enough already on how many millions chief executives earn. LetÂs shift gears to a group of workers who earn pennies in comparison.