IT Management
Gartner, 7/12/02: Attention SMBs: IT Success Must Start With Planning
All IT planning must begin with an enterprise’s understanding of its overall business strategy. Successfully leveraging technology for competitive advantage will hinge on three elements: strategy, architecture and organization.
Technology has become part of the fabric of economic, sociological and political activity. The digital revolution is changing our way of life to the same degree as the innovations of the Industrial Revolution. Among small and midsize businesses (SMBs), the effect is forcing IS leaders to become business leaders, requiring them to understand the impact and capability required to support the enterprise’s processes and strategy. IT strategy and architecture are as much about maintaining an enterprise’s competitive advantage as about deploying IT systems. As a result, IT strategies are taking on characteristics of business strategies. Despite the trend, many SMB IT and business units still operate independently.
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Information Week, 7/15/02: CIOs aren't taking many chances on startup technology. So is innovation dead?
By Eileen Colkin
Ken Bohlen thinks a lot differently about emerging technology today than he did two years ago.
Back then, the executive VP and chief innovation officer at multinational manufacturer Textron Inc. sat on venture-capital advisory boards in order to sniff out the hottest ideas emerging from technology startups. More than half of his speaking engagements were with private-equity investors or investment analysts looking for clues about the next big thing. Best of all, his employer encouraged such pursuits.
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PC Industry
The Wall Street Journal, 7/19/02: PC Shipments Continue Decline Defying Forecast Improvement
By DAVID P. HAMILTON
The world-wide personal-computer market continued to slump as shipments declined for a fifth straight quarter, defying forecasts of a slight uptick issued by two major market-research firms.
Dell Computer Corp., meanwhile, fell to the No. 2 position in global PC market share, after Hewlett-Packard Co.'s acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. vaulted it into first place. Dell, however, was the only one of the world's four largest PC makers to boost its market share.
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Data Security / Anti-Virus
Infoworld, 7/18/02: Analysis: Symantec rattles security landscape
By Brian Fonseca and Sam Costello
AS THE DUST begins to settle on Symantec's eye-catching $350 million cash purchase of three vastly different security vendors, big-name security players suddenly lodged squarely in Symantec's sights have no intention of sitting idly by and already are planning their next move.
Bolstering its own formidable anti-virus and security appliance product set with a much broader security portfolio, on Wednesday Symantec placed its bid to assimilate Recourse Technology's anomaly and signature-based IDS (intrusion detection system) capability, SecurityFocus' vulnerability assessment technology, and Riptech's managed security range of services, according to Gail Hamilton, executive vice president of Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec.
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Silicon Valley Life
The San Jose Mercury News, 7/19/02: Silicon Valley scene, 2002: coffee, joblessness and dead dot-coms
By Mike Cassidy
Dateline: Starbucks
Scene: Long line snakes past shelves lined with the game Cranium and really big overpriced coffee cups.
Ozzy Osbourne singing old Cole Porter tunes (Hear Music's ``Anything Goes Meets Anything Goes'') blasts from overhead speakers. Barista shouts out orders while a customer at the counter asks whether venti is a coffee size or flavor. One woman spots another sitting at a corner table.
Brittney: Jill? Jill! I haven't seen you since the reverse-wealth-effect days. Where have you been?
Jill: Brittney! Has it been a year? Ugh, 2001 was bad, but 2002 is way bad.
Brittney: Way.
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