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I am a big fan of case studies. Even the most overtly promotional ones generally offer enough valuable tips on how companies handle real-life business situations to make them worthwhile.
I recently found an especially well-done case study in CIO.com on how one company, New Jersey software provider Chorus, shuttered two offices and sent all 35 […]

I’ve been interested for some time now in Amazon’s development of a collection of cloud-based services for the enterprise, as is obvious from this post from earlier this year.
The retail powerhouse’s Simple Storage Service and Elastic Compute Cloud give it a decent chance of cracking the enterprise market. While Google appears to struggle with its […]

IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson recently wrote about the serious pain that can occur when companies do not adequately consider how integrating IT systems will affect combined operations after a merger.
So it’s not too much of a stretch to say, as Gartner analyst Linda Cohen does in a recent Computerworld article, that companies sometimes […]

IT Business Edge blogger Dennis Byron recently wrote about an “absolutely scary hour” he spent listening to Intel’s Craig Barrett, former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner and other experts discussing shortcomings in the U.S. educational system that are damaging our nation’s competitiveness in the global economy.
He writes:
For example, 70 percent of high school students in some […]

In an economic downturn, mass layoffs like those just announced by Intuit, which intends to slice 7 percent of its workforce in a reorganization, aren’t too surprising.
But there is a somewhat surprising element to the Intuit announcement, highlighted earlier this week by ZDNet’s Tom Foremski. During a presentation at Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm conference, Intuit CEO […]