March 13, 2010A persistent concern among chief executives and heads of business units is the question of "do we have the right talent in our organizatoins today?" Row Henson, HCM Fellow at Oracle, also comments that CEOs are finally recognizing that without talent, companies can not have products that customers will buy and bring in the revenue the companies need to survive and grow.
Analytics is predicted to be a priority area of investment among companies in 2010 as companies realize that BI tools do not give managers sufficient insight into what the data is telling them. IBM senior executives, Phillip Beniac and Mark Register, discusses the rise of analytics as the tool to help organizations accurately predict what the information is telling them.
According to Row Henson, human capital management Fellow at Oracle, HCM remains a nascent area of business practice. She shares her view around the evolution of human capital management with its roots around human resources and how people assets within an organization are harnessed to achieve the best value for the business.
Anna Lin is Chief Executive of GS1 Hong Kong, the local arm of GS1, a global organization dedicated to the promotion of EPC Global standards for barcode and RFID technologies. She shares her views on the different technologies and business processes that, combined, deliver greater overall value than as individual.
Virtualization is hot because businesses believe they can reduce cost and improve tech utilization through virtualization. But many approach virtualization for the wrong reasons. Peter Pan gives potent advise on the steps that would improve your chances of successfully introduction virtualization into your data center.
SMBs may understand and appreciate the importance of security in their business but the effects and value of security to their business has a greater value to their survival. Stree Naidu, vice president for Asia Pacific at Tumbleweed, gives his perspective on why this is so.
Few companies fully understand the power of online marketing. According to Michael Kwan, general manager for Adams Company Limited, online marketing offers several opportunities to extend their market reach at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing.
As we come out of the current recession brought about by the excesses in the US and European financial systems, industry observers are touting the rise of a new normal, one that demands greater accountability, openness and visibility. David Wee, CEO and founder of DW Associates, lists what he believes are characteristics of the new normal and how to survive the change.
The paradox of IT says data is everywhere but information remains illusive. Eryk Markiewicz, vice president of marketing at QlikTech International, discusses a new way of mining information from your pools of data to make timely, effective decisions.
As hype continues to grow, so do the number of interpretations of what a cloud is. Nicola Hayes, Vice President for BroadGroup, first defines what she believes is a general term for cloud computing, and then shares some of the most common myths and realities surrounding the interpretation of cloud computing services.
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Today’s businesses face multiple challenges, including the need to innovate in extremely competitive business climates, address highly dynamic regulatory and compliance challenges, speed ROI to counter shrinking IT budgets, and secure themselves against a wide barrage of new and evolving sophisticated threats.
Attacks based on vulnerabilities in websites are skyrocketing, and not many solutions are available to protect organizations against them. How do you deal with this and other key security issues today?
They say 'put pen to paper' when you hit upon an important idea or solution. So too the creative genius needs to quickly convert thoughts into discernible text and visuals before they dissipate into obscurity. Find out how NVIDIA's Quadro FX GPUs help speed up CPU-intensive applications in the creative process.
To support its focus on improving customer satisfaction through enhanced service levels, as well as meeting guidelines set down by the Monetary Authority of Macau, Tai Fung Bank has implemented a business continuity and resiliency infrastructure developed by IBM.
