Often the simplest approach yields the best results. A little while ago a study in hospitals in the UK found that one procedure was having a dramatic positive effect. Did it involve complex technology and years of painstaking theoretical research? Not really, it was a checklist that asked two basic questions - is this the right patient, is this the correct organ/limb/procedure? ...
09/04/2009 | Task 1, Adopt simple but effective process.pdf | VIEW
Many resellers will be finding it hard to motivate their customers to make new investments as the economy collapses. However, any purchase that helps them reduce business costs should at least get a hearing. ...
04/04/2009 | Unified Comm - for CRN March 2009.pdf | VIEW
The 'green' hype seems so last year. Today's poor market conditions have refocused business minds on survival, rather than ensuring organisations have a solid environmental plan. Despite this, Quocirca expects to see a lot more green messaging in the coming months. ...
30/03/2009 | Green IT isn't dead yet....pdf | VIEW
As politicians quibble about whether a recession is turning into a depression, businesses are more focused on the bottom line. For IT departments this means two things: cutting their own costs and helping the broader business to cut its costs. Achieving the latter will serve the long term reputation of IT well. ...
28/03/2009 | Unfied comm - for silicon - March 2009.pdf | VIEW
When once apparent archrivals such as Vodafone and O2/Telefonica say they are working together, some may wonder just how bad things are. The recent culmination of their Radio Access Network (RAN) sharing plan might seem like either a knee jerk cost cutting move in challenging economic times, or merely a communication techie's dream of playing with bigger networks. The reality however is more subtle and actually RAN sharing could offer pretty widespread benefits. ...
27/03/2009 | Who dares, who wins.pdf | VIEW
“Green” talk is everywhere. Toyota will sell you a green car to get to your green office where you can power up your green Apple laptop and access your green Earth friendly webmail while being green by not printing a document at all but instead viewing it as an online document. Green technology abounds, all apparently providing the means to avoid something horrid happening to those polar bears that were pictured on slide three of the nice vendor’s PowerPoint presentation. But what exactly, aside from being a cheerful alternative to beige, does “green” actually mean in relation to technology? What does it deliver and why do you need it? ...
16/03/2009 | eweek - green tech.pdf | VIEW
In an increasingly commoditised printer market, selling services is the key to capturing new revenue for both manufacturers and resellers. ...
16/03/2009 | Channels to MPS success.pdf | VIEW
As Mobile World Congress 09 becomes a hazy memory for the mobile industry, Unified Communications09, with its sidekick VoIP for Business, came into focus this week, but thus far ‘mobile' and ‘unified' have looked more like distant relatives rather than a happy couple. ...
13/03/2009 | Fixed Mobile Unified Communications (FUMC) - business benefit or telecoms nerdvana.pdf | VIEW
VMware places itself at the centre of the cloud computing vision, seeing itself not only as the chief software infrastructure provider for cloud computing, but also as the catalyst for a rich partner ecosystem that it sees as delivering additional software, hardware, and services. VMware’s vision is broad, rich, and ambitious – offering nothing short of a fundamental reshuffle amongst the current hardware and software vendors. The question is; does VMware have the necessary clout to successfully execute the game plan? ...
11/03/2009 | itd - vmware.pdf | VIEW
Social networking is all the rage. The mainstream press coverage is widespread, but the press seems bored with "old technology" stories on instant messaging, Skype, MySpace, Facebook, SecondLife and Flickr. Blogs and wikis were hot topics, and the idea of Tweeting appears to have caught on. ...
03/03/2009 | Let's be sociable, not confuse things.pdf | VIEW
