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Branding In The Not-For-Profit Sector?: Branding is about managing two key factors. On the business side, what message is to be conveyed; and on the consumer side, how it is perceived. If these two factors can be aligned with the strategy and vision, a brand will emerge from the organization and provide the returns and...; Tags: Interbrand, branding, brand, vision, strategy; White papers 2004-02-25
Changing Newsrooms from Within: The fifth annual State of the News Media report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, says that "In the last year, the trends reshaping journalism didn't just quicken, they seemed to be nearing a pivot point." The report states that "the biggest problem facing traditional...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, David Weir, editorial staff, business-side; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Peer to Peer: The New Glass Ceiling: The author joined a global manufacturing firm in 2000. It was the smallest shop that she had managed, but it didn't matter because of all the interesting opportunities: reengineering the infrastructure, implementing best-of-breed applications that had been purchased but mothballed, and repositioning IT from a cost center to a competitive...; Tags: Strategy, International Data Group, CIO, re-engineering, information technology, competitive advantage, P2P, survey, manufacturing; White papers 2006-05-15
Branding in the Not-For-Profit Sector?: A Practical Guide for Not-For-Profit Executives and Managers for Achieving a Competitive Advantage Through the Branding Process: Branding is about managing two key factors. On the business side, what message is to be conveyed; and on the consumer side, how it is perceived. If these two factors can be aligned with the strategy and vision, a brand will emerge from the organization and provide the returns and...; Tags: branding, brand, competitive advantage, vision, strategy; White papers 2004-02-25
Keep Your Brand Clean: From the executive summary: ‘Branding experts agree that the essence of a brand is trust; it is especially true of the corporate brand. On the business side, corporate brands are supposed to indicate a safe place to invest money, and a good place to work and build a career. On...; Tags: Interbrand, brand, brand image, branding, career; White papers 2002-10-14

E-Commerce: A Best Practices Overview: The Internet has already changed the way many people buy cars, shop for mortgages, interact with their banks, book travel arrangements and more. On the business-to-business side, the revolution has just begun. Industry giants are spearheading an online onslaught that will permanently alter the way companies and their vendors do...; Tags: Web technology, E-business/E-commerce, TEC International, e-business, B2B, best practice, business process, bank, Internet, industry; White papers 2003-01-01
The Business Education Of Jan Franklin: This article discusses about business education. Just when one thought she knew everything, this IT veteran named Jan Franklin spent some time on the business side. What she learned there prepared her to take over as Farmers' CIO when opportunity knocked. Getting the IT staffers in the habit of regularly...; Tags: International Data Group, information technology; White papers 2003-01-01
The Project Backlog: The challenge for CIOs is to ensure that projects already in the queue are aligned with ever-changing business priorities, to manage business-side expectations and to control new sources of application demand from today's more sophisticated users. Whatever the source of the application backlog, CIOs should follow this cardinal rule: Don't...; Tags: International Data Group, CIO; White papers 2006-01-01
Can IT Take the Lead in Business Process Management?: General knowledge of BPM, the reasons why it is important, and a strong desire to reap BPM benefits have settled in on the business side of the executive table. Now it's time for IT. Most of the best information regarding BPM to date has focused away from technology and systems...; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, BPM, information technology, business process, leadership, benefit; White papers 2005-09-15
SCORE Counseling Makes A Distinct Impression On Screen Printing Business In Tuscon, AZ: Uncertainty is the enemy of any business, a fact that John Wilhelmsen knows too well. In 1992, he visited a local bank to discuss refinancing the building that housed Distinct Impressions, a screen printing business that he started with his brothers, Mark and Bruce, in 1979. Although the company had...; Tags: bank, financial, performance; Case studies
Trusted Partners At FedEx: This article explains state of affairs in most of the organizations in the field of information technology i.e. poor state of relationship with the business side of companies. This requires alignment of all the divisions of any organization towards one single goal and the importance of establishing and maintaining good...; Tags: CMP Media, Federal Express, accountability, information technology, Internet; Case studies 2002-01-01
Anatomy Of Power: From the executive summary: ‘Effective IT management does not depend on a silver-bullet CIO from the business side of the house or outside the industry, or even on one spouting the latest technology vision. Instead, effective IT management is achieved much like any other executive business function. It hinges on...; Tags: Strategy, CMP Media, IT administration, sourcing, information technology, industry; White papers 2004-10-01
SCORE Helps Budding Entrepreneur Find The Right Balance: When planning to open her clinic, Dr. Michele Kehrer quickly realized that while she understood the art and science of vestibular treatment, she didn't know the business side of launching her practice, such as business planning, budgeting and cash flow projections, sales, marketing, management and financing. SCORE counselor Elliot Shear...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, financing, banking, business planning, working capital, budgeting, bank, marketing, sales; Case studies
It's Innovation That Counts: From the executive summary: ‘Alignment between IT and business-side executives may sound basic, but CIOs and financial executives alike see it as the key to getting emerging-technology initiatives approved, funded, and rolled out. ROI and total cost of ownership are still the tools of the trade, but they should not...; Tags: ROI/TCO, CMP Media, TCO, decision-making, ROI, financial, information technology, tool; White papers 2003-10-01
Why Isn't Sam Zell Selling the LA Times?: Felix Salmon submits: Here's what I don't understand about the crazy-desperate moves that Sam Zell is making at the LA Times, like judging journalists by the number of column-inches they generate, or removing all the editorial employees at the the magazine and moving it to the business side -...; Tags: Media; External links 2008-06-10
Technology Ecosystems For Enterprise Risk Management: Unprecedented regulatory pressures on the financial services industry are igniting a transformation of the market for risk management solutions. With IT as a close ally, decision makers from various disciplines on the business side are demanding integrated and cross-functional risk management solutions that span the dimensions of data, process, systems,...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, Strategy, Tower Group Inc., enterprise risk management, risk management, financial service, information technology, agent, industry, partnership; White papers 2005-07-01
The Scoop on Medical Practice Software: Medical practices don't have much choice: one has to use technology to manage the patient records and scheduling, and more technology to handle the business side - it's just too complex and in some cases legally risky to do everything by hand. But the market for medical practice systems, including...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, AllBusiness.com, medical practice management, electronic health record, patient, software; White papers
AT&T's CDN Offering Won't Displace Akamai or Limelight Anytime Soon: Dan Rayburn submits: Yesterday, there was a lot of talk about AT&T T and its CDN announcement and as usual, a lot of questions, mostly from Wall Street, on what this means to Akamai AKAM and the rest of the CDN industry. While many sites covered the news, I...; Tags: AT&T Corp., Akamai Technologies Inc., Telecom, Internet, Limelight Networks Inc., Level 3 Communications Inc.; External links 2008-06-25
Chief Change Officers: This article talks about the gulf between the IT department and the business side of most companies which is huge despite all the lip service companies and their CEOs pay to the idea of embracing change and collaboration. The gap is growing every year. A few years ago--or a few...; Tags: CMP Media, CIO, CEO, collaboration, information technology; White papers 2002-04-01
LA Times' Madness Is Brand Suicide: Ken Doctor submits: I'd like to read the Los Angeles Times manual on "how to deal with difficult situations." Though it's never been made public, it's clear it's been infiltrated by those disseminating disinformation. The result: no matter what seems to happen at the Times in the last several...; Tags: Media, Belo Corp., Gannett, Gatehouse Media Inc., McClatchy Co., News Corp., New York Times Co., E.W. Scripps Co., Washington Post Co.; External links 2008-06-12