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Why go green?
Some answers on why businesses are investing in green IT. Plus standardisation vs personalisation
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Successful mergers rely on taming the systems
As any business school student knows, the classic motives for a merger or acquisition are economies of scale or scope, synergies and market share.
But information technology is simultaneously the biggest enabler of those aims and the biggest constraint for most large businesses.
‘The IT revolution is just beginning’
Businesses still have enormous scope to improve their use of technology, according to Michael Dell, founder and chief executive of Dell. Hear Michael Dell in our podcast
Perspectives: Social media use is a political key stroke
By the time you read this, the big questions will have been answered.
It has nothing to do with the post-UK election shenanigans but relates to whether I will have managed to book online a journey through the Channel Tunnel without succumbing to screen rage or i-paranoia (a newly diagnosed conviction that the internet is out to get you).
Technology takes a lead in cutting carbon
IT teams have been battling to overturn the data centre’s reputation as a vast and inefficient contributor to the corporate energy bill and to its carbon footprint.
Nomura: Assimilating Lehman systems was ‘staggeringly complicated
The opportunity had to be assessed in days; due diligence was carried out over a weekend; and two separate IT systems had to be combined in less than three months. The stakes were sky high.
Valley View: There’ll be no escaping the home entertainment revolution
You can seal up the letterbox and lock all the doors, but it won’t help you resist the next digital revolution invading your home.
IT First Aid: How to respond to a CIO’s ‘career upgrade request’
There is a sense that we can perhaps unbatten the hatches on the basis that the economic storm is passing. There may even be a sense that we can move the focus from cost to investment.
Can you believe IT? What business can learn from the cinema
The recent success of the film Avatar has put the 3D viewing experience in the spotlight. In business, there are many areas where communicating in three dimensions can add value, so 3D displays are likely to become more common.
What’s New: A chance to check on colleagues’ availability
Microsoft and Nokia have launched Communicator Mobile, the first tangible result from their alliance announced last year.
