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Innovation,
Data management,
Strategy,
Change
The little shop that could
Time for full disclosure: when asked to write about The White Company, I jumped at the chance. Our household is filled with the company’s stuff. We like what it sells, how it markets itself and, living in the wilds of Wales, its mail-order...
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Change,
Growth,
Strategy,
Data management,
Innovation
Charity begins at home
Here’s something you may not have realised: charities are in one of the most competitive industries in the world. They have to fight tooth and nail for every bit of money that enters their books. Here’s another: they are among the most regulated and...
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Change,
Innovation,
Entrepreneur
Future tech
What’s the next killer app that’s going to change business forever? Tough call – there were those that claimed Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) software was going to run the telecoms into the ground and change the whole business comms landscape fo...
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Data management,
Change,
Growth,
Strategy
What makes your IT special?
It was a nice problem to have. Three years after introducing CitySpace in 2003, a virtual learning environment for students, London’s City University found itself deluged by demand. Logins were running at more than 100,000 every month, courtesy of...
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Change,
Collaboration,
Data management
Inspiring change
The word interoperability crops up a lot these days. Inspired by the need to navigate across different IT architectures, getting your multiple systems to exchange and use information offers real benefits to your business.Making your systems talk to...
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Know-how,
Strategy,
Entrepreneur,
Change,
Collaboration,
Growth
Paint by numbers
When Firwood Paints, based in Bolton, won a DTI-backed e-Commerce Award in September 2005, it was as the region’s best end-to-end integrated business. The company’s new website (www.firwood.co.uk) forged a dynamic link not only between a...
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Innovation,
Strategy,
Change,
Bottom Line
All change?
“Every company is under pressure to continuously develop in modern retail,” says James Gurd, Home Shopping manager for UK-based houseware and hardware retailer, Robert Dyas.“You want to stay faithful to the values of the organisation but you can't...
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Change,
Data management,
Bottom Line
Help is at hand
“Globalisation” conjures up images of an undifferentiated world where international companies move resources and products around in a virtually frictionless environment. The real world, of course, is very different. If a manager has responsibilities...
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Bottom Line,
Growth,
Change
Investing in a brighter future
Some businesses like to do things differently. Take BrightHouse – it’s a fast-growing business based on a “rent to own” concept that was brought over to the UK from the US a decade ago. The first store in the chain, which was originally called...
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Change,
Bottom Line,
Risk Compliance Governance (GRC),
Security
“It felt like being prepared for the firing squad but with some choice over the bullet calibre”
Have you lost much sleep worrying about the status of your software licensing? Probably not. Growing your business in a competitive business environment can be all consuming, so it’s not surprising when a company board loses sight of its software...
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Data management,
Change
The ex-files
Whatever happened to the "paperless office", that holy grail of business IT? We were all promised that, one day, we would carry everything we needed in a digital format on some light, powerful, mobile device. And while much of that promise has been f...
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