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Too Much Autonomy at HP is Costly
- November 20, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Financial Management, High-tech, Information Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions, News
No CommentsHP announced, today, that it would be taking an $8.8 billion charge resulting from accounting anomalies and improprieties discovered at Autonomy, a British Software maker that it bought last year. The announcement has caused HP shares to drop more than 13 percent. The autonomy acquisition was done under former CEO, Leo Apotheker’s watch. The acquisition
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The New “Big Apple”
- August 21, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Brand Revitalization, High-tech, Information Technology, Innovation, News, Stock Market
Yesterday, Apple Inc. became the most valuable company in history in terms of market capitalization at $623.52 billion, surpassing the record set by Microsoft in December of 1999. It is ironic that a company that was near bankruptcy when Steve Jobs rejoined the company in 1997, and which Michael Dell once told an audience that
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Wal-Mart Reports Strong Sales Despite Bribery Scandal. What’s a Little Corruption Among Friends?
- May 17, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Ethics, Information Technology, News, Retail
It was announced, today, that Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s profit and sales surpassed expectations, causing share prices to rise, briefly recovering the 8+% loss after the bribery scandal was uncovered (See Ethics For Sale at Wal-Mart.) Shares eventually settled up 4 percent. This occurred despite ongoing internal and government probes into bribery of Mexican government officials.
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Facebook IPO – The Rising Tide Has a Noticeable Undercurrent
- May 16, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Information Technology, IPO, News, Social Networking, Stock Market
Facebook’s pending IPO has become quite a spectacle. It is sure to meet published expectations. There is a real possibility that the IPO will result in a market capitalization in excess of $100 billion. This said, there are two underlying details that are cause for concern: 1) The exit of early investors, mostly venture capitalists. Some of
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Ethics for Sale at Wal-Mart
- April 24, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Ethics, Information Technology, News, Retail
It was reported, over the weekend, that Wal-Mart has been involved, over a number of years, in bribery of high-level Mexican officials in order to fast-track building permits in the company’s largest international division, Wal-Mart de Mexico. This activity took place, while the company was actively, along with other large businesses, lobbying to soften the
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Top Tech Companies Are In “Fast Company”
- March 18, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: High-tech, Information Technology, Innovation, News
Fast Company has published its list of businesses which they consider to be the most innovative. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are considered to be the best “transformational firms,” and are obsessions of the business world…” All four jostled for FastCompany’s No. 1 title–with Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, Apple’s Siri voice assistant, Facebook’s Timeline interface,
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Crossing the Paradigm Bridge
- March 15, 2011
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: High-tech, Information Technology, IT Architecture, News
Five years ago, we predicted the advent of the “internet appliance” which would become the 4th high technology paradigm. With the 4th paradigm came concern, mainly within corporate IT circles, about the so-called “consumerization” of IT. Apple Computer, which spearheaded the newest technology paradigm, has, as of this month, put the pressure on with the
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End-to-end PC Lifecycle Cost Management
- December 9, 2010
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Information Technology, Lifecycle Cost Management, News
A new white paper has been posted on the SECG web site. The topic addressed is End-to-End PC Lifecyle Cost Management. This topic, of course, is a subset of the larger concepts of Lifecycle Cost Management within IT. This topic will be addressed in a future paper. According to surveys, the three dominant issues facing
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Implementing IT Cultural Change without Resistance
- September 5, 2010
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Change Management, Decision Making, Information Technology, News, Organizational Behavior
A new white paper has been posted on the SECG web site. This is a case study on cultural change within IT organizations, focuses on the ability to implement cultural change without resistance. This is especially challenging with the high pace of technology change. People resist change when they perceive the change is against their
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IT Asset Management Practices
- August 29, 2010
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Asset Management, Information Technology, News
A new white paper has been posted on the SECG web site. The focus is IT asset management best practices. Included in the paper are the following: Define IT Inventory and Asset Practices Capture and Maintain Inventory Information Maintain IT Asset Information Administer License or Lease Maintain Warehouse Inventory Charge-back Administration Technology Portfolio Financial Planning
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