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The Crisis in Marketing
Marketing is in crisis. The tough economic climate has shrunk marketing budgets while marketing has simultaneously become the main point of focus for the company’s survival, with everybody looking to marketing to generate new business and keep them on top of the latest trends and tactics. Marketing professionals are stuck between a rock and a hard place and are being told “Do more with less, and prove to me that it is working”. Read more
Technology Outsourcing Trends - Business Day Insights
Business Day Insights 3 September has a few pieces:
Stephen Cohen says Everything can be done online! I like the way he thinks.
Grant Bodley, GM for Teamsource says, Boundaries are blurred between the client and the service provider. Agreed, today's SP needs to work inside the client on the business rather than at arms length and in the business.
John Jenkins says, Companies are seeking the best deal for differing elements from numerous outsourcers. Multi-sourcing is gaining popularity but there are very few good single service integrators as yet.
Donovan Mulller says, Skills crisis proves a boon for outsourcing. Hence the popularity of a recent blog post by Terry White entitled, Are Information Technology people a silicon-based life-form?
Our favourite is of course from our own Sandy Purbrick, Understanding the role of IT is a key factor based on "The three roles of IT" Read more
Who is SAP's best BI buddy?
Alys Woodward, Senior Analyst
Our research report 'Who is SAP's best BI buddy?', published in Software@Ovum, describes SAP's partnership and integration with the major pure-play business intelligence (BI) vendors: Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy and SAS. The partnerships are described in terms of the company, the technology of the BI vendor and the integration with SAP. Read more
Certify our hackers
9 May 2008
by Leon Engelbrecht
Companies that are serious about security should have their own in-house hacker and make sure he is certified, says a security expert.
“Why do you want to train and certify hackers? To narrow the gap between the good and the bad guys,” says EC-Council co-founder and president Sanjay Bavisi.
He addressed ITWeb Security Summit 2008, in Midrand, this week. Read more
E-Learning Market Update (June 2009)
E-Learning Market Update (June 2009)
Is the business model of the future one where the customer no longer pays? This is the idea put forward in a new book by Chris Anderson. We explore his ideas in our market update this month and the implications for e-learning.
Chris Anderson, editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail, is at it again. His new book's entitled Free: The Future of a Radical Price. The core of the book is based on an article he wrote for Wired magazine. The book is not available until next month (you can pre-order here
Scared of 'free'? Don't be Read more
Digging For Social Networking Gold
January 20, 2009
Social networks and news about them is all around us. Led by MySpace, Facebook, and Linkedin etc., the list is endless and still growing! Your challenge? Where is the money in Social Networking? Read more
It takes 2.0
21-Feb-2008
by Louise Druce
Web 2.0 is helping people to interact on a wider scale but is that a good thing? Louise Druce looks at how HR can embrace these tools to get the most out of the company.
Love or hate social networking sites, they are among the so-called Web 2.0 applications here to stay. So for those of you who would rather poke your eyes out than spend hours poking friends, perhaps it's time to rethink how these tools can be embraced positively to promote your company.
The main bone of contention with social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace is the amount of time employees spend logging in and chatting to their friends during work hours. It has led to some companies banning access to sites altogether. Read more
The Sum of All Things
Atlas Shrugged - A Survival Guide to 2009
Moneyweb columnist Magda Wierzycka asks whether we are repeating Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged world as those who have wreaked havoc on the lives of so many are being rewarded for that incompetence.
Magda Wierzycka
08 April 2009 07:34
A recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal titled Atlas Shrugged: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years has sparked an interesting debate on the blogging circuit. Many conservatives in the US are seeing parallels in the apocalyptical world described in Ayn Rand's 1 200 page epic written in 1957, and President Barack Obama's current economic policies. Read more
ICT industry is racist, says govt
15 April 2008
By Christelle du Toit, ITWeb Senior Journalist
Black economic empowerment (BEE) is not the reason SA has a skills crisis, but rather institutionalised racism and unwarranted, exorbitant price demands by ICT professionals.
This is the message from government and industry commentators, in reaction to the outcry that followed the release of the Department of Labour's (DOL's) national master scarce skills list last week. Read more
