Allow me to once again apologize in advance for a lack of brevity. This is one of those blogs you wait a career to write.

A few years ago, I was sitting across from a Wall Street CIO, one of many I was visiting in New York.

Here's an article over at IndustryWeek referencing research done by IBM (there's a link to the IBM research in the article). The focus is a survey with CEOs talking about competitiveness.

In the portfolio context, we must revisit what is perhaps the most fundamental aspect of a project: the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Now that the project has already moved out of the center of the

Money Laundering Alert drew over 1500 delegates to Hollywood, Florida last week to their 11th Annual International Money Laundering Conference and Exhibition.Alacra was there, demonstrating our new Compliance Solutions.The conference was extremely well run and there was an impressive roster...

It seems that wherever you turn these days, you hear about innovation. Nations and regions all over the world have innovation initiatives such as the NII in the US, which is run by the Council on Competitiveness and the European...

Don't worry about cannibalization, worry about not being in the market

I've been spending an increasing amount of time with customers over the last few months, and a lot of my customers are upgrading right now. This has started me thinking about skiing.

Some 40 to 45% of the USP platforms are sold with the Universal Volume Manager software which enables a USP to discover and access LUNs from external storage that is connected through its FC ports. Once this is done the...

A consultant recently told us for industry standard servers it appears HP is the only major vendor still delivering support services the old fashioned way. By that he meant only HP intends the term four hour on-site response to mean after a customer places a service call to HP they would have either problem resolution or a technician on site within four hours.

Last night I watched the movie Cinderella Man, based on the remarkable life of depression-era boxer J.J. Braddock. In one scene, Braddock's manager, Jay Gould, asks boxing promoter Jimmy Johnston to "have a heart", and not show J.J.

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