Shifting the balance of long-term well understood costs has a disturbing effect on any market. The rapid rise in property prices, growth in car ownership and lack of parking in congested capitals such as London led to the recent economic viability of digging out personal underground car elevators. Like something out of ‘Thunderbirds' a single vehicle parking space rises out and sinks back into the ground. Other examples include the current exploitation of the Canadian oil sands now economic due to high oil prices, or the re-opening of mines in Cornwall in the UK that have been coming viable again due to the high cost of tin. ...
14/12/2007 | M2M - the rise and rise of the mobile machine.pdf | VIEW
Recent research from analyst firm Quocirca has shown that about 42 per cent of European businesses now rely on web-enabled applications and these are often being accessed over the internet. ...
09/12/2007 | Don't get stuck in the networking jam.pdf | VIEW
The environmental impact of IT is an issue under much scrutiny recently, but not much thought seems to have been given to the security consequences of "going green". Having thought it over, Quocirca has come up with an answer. There are two broad themes that affect the job of chief information security officers (CISOs) if businesses are serious about greening their use of IT. ...
08/12/2007 | Going green is good, but is it secure.pdf | VIEW
Businesses survive or die based on decisions made on information available to them, and yet the majority of organizations have little control over the growing mountains of information that they create on a daily basis. On top of the formal data being created by database-centric applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, more and more of an organization's intellectual property is being created as ad hoc information held in documents created by individuals in Microsoft Office or other mainstream desktop applications. ...
06/12/2007 | The Four Ps of ILM.pdf | VIEW
Imagine that you are in a room with another person. You have the choice to ignore them, and likewise they could ignore you. Let's assume that you both decide that you will interact with each other. You enter into a discussion, and you find that you have certain things in common, and you both learn something new from the interaction. The more people that there are in the room, the better the chance of such serendipitous interactions happening-and herein lies the great promise of social networking. By providing an environment where everyone can be available, interactions can be made with people who you would never have been able to contact before, and their depth and breadth of knowledge can be added to the areas where you need such skills. ...
27/11/2007 | All alone in a Social World.pdf | VIEW
For a growing number of organisations, web browsers are becoming the primary interface for accessing certain business applications. This enables easy access to widely distributed groups of users, not just employees on the move, but also individuals in external organisations; customers, suppliers, partners, and so on. ...
17/11/2007 | Businesses put their weight behind web enabled apps.pdf | VIEW
Most organisations looking at greening their data centres have probably investigated the standard approaches of rationalisation, consolidation and more efficient use of power ...
14/11/2007 | Hot issues for green IT.pdf | VIEW
Rules and regulations regarding what records companies must keep and be able to produce as evidence in the case of a court hearing have been around for decades, with one of the first such laws being the Securities and Exchange Act of the US that was passed in 1934. Initially governing only written documents and guarantees, the rule has been expanded to cover new communication technologies such as email and instant messaging. ...
13/11/2007 | Regulations Upping the Ante on Electronic Data Management.pdf | VIEW
As consumers become increasingly bombarded by an abundance of marketing messages, personalised or one-to-one marketing is key to ensuring organisations are maximising the customer experience, improving customer acquisition and building customer loyalty and attracting new customers. ...
13/11/2007 | Reach and relevance with transpromo communications.pdf | VIEW
Managing information is always a challenge. When it's locked inside an individual's head - arguably information mobility in its most basic form - teasing it out and sharing it for the benefit of many rather than the power and influence of one has often proved difficult. ...
12/11/2007 | Managing information mobility.pdf | VIEW
