[there are sixteen news stories in this post.]
The Financial Express :: Forgetting Ethics Leads To Trouble
...Rajat Kumar Gupta, former CEO and currently senior partner of US-based McKinsey and Co, is spending a good amount of time in India these days. Still six more years to go for his retirement, Mr Gupta became one of the youngest CEOs of the firm worldwide to serve the maximum permissible three terms of three years each that saw the global consulting firm take unprecedented growth. Today, he is engaged in a variety of roles at McKinsey - even though he is not on the hot seat - engaging himself in knowledge management and mentoring at McKinsey and also in other educational and philanthropic activities. He was one of the prime movers of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad. Kolkata-born Mr Gupta, one of the early India-born CEOs of global corporations, has been in the consulting field for over 30 years. In one of the rare interviews after he stepped down from the top job at the firm, he spoke in an exclusive interview with George Skaria, Sangeeta Singh and Ajay Jain of FE. The IIT-Delhi and Harvard Business School educated management guru talked about how the consulting business will shape up in the future as well his own personal plans...
Business Wire :: Salesforce.com Announces SureShot Migration Program for Siebel UpShot Customers
...Salesforce.com, the world leader in delivering software-as-service, today announced the immediate availability of free, seamless migration for Siebel's (Nasdaq:SEBL) UpShot customers to salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is launching the SureShot Migration Program in response to Siebel's decision to acquire UpShot, whose 1,000 customers have invested in the software-as-service customer relationship management (CRM) business model. After migrating, customers will be able to take advantage of the award-winning features and functionality of salesforce.com's industry-leading CRM service at no cost for three months, after which salesforce.com will honor the terms of their existing contract with UpShot...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Longview Solutions Asks: Today's CFO: Steward or Strategist?
...TORONTO, PHILADELPHIA and MADRID, Spain, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Finance executives from nine international, industry leading companies joined a roundtable this past summer to discuss the changing role of today's Chief Financial Officer and the imperatives facing global organizations wanting to win the confidence of their key stakeholders.
"The theoretical answer to the question, CFO: Steward or Strategist?" said Dave Murray, CFO, Longview Solutions, "can be found from a 1st Century Rome example in Janus, god of gates and portals, the patron of beginnings and endings. Take responsibility for the past, get your numbers in order, close your books. But, like Janus, focus on beginnings and endings, balance your hindsight with foresight on business strategy."...
Washington Technology :: CACI finishes acquisition of C-Cubed
By Gail Repsher Emery, Staff Writer
...CACI International Inc. completed its acquisition of C-Cubed Corp., officials of Arlington, Va.-based CACI announced Oct. 16.
Terms were not disclosed, but a CACI statement said the transaction is expected to boost the company's performance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004.
Springfield, Va.-based C-Cubed provides support for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance initiatives for clients in the Defense Department and civilian and intelligence agencies.
The acquisition strengthens CACI's capabilities in command and control and expands its client base, said Jack London, CACI's chairman, president and chief executive officer.
"C-Cubed is a good fit with CACIs core strengths," London said. CACI's capabilities include engineering, simulation, information assurance, knowledge management, systems integration and managed network solutions.
C-Cubed offers solutions in five areas: network enterprise solutions, systems integration, integrated logistics support, combat systems and deep submergence engineering. Most of its 400 employees hold high-level security clearances...
...CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2003--Dow Chemical saved more than $1 million in just 18 months by implementing a best practice knowledge management program; Lucent Technologies boosted productivity levels by 10% in eight months and saw a six-fold ROI after two years by identifying engineering best practices. The benefits of benchmarking are manifold - from education of executives and realized performance improvement operations to strategic growth opportunities.
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MarketWire :: FGM, Inc. Achieves CMM Level 2 Goal
...DULLES, VA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/16/2003 -- FGM, Inc. announced today that the company's headquarters achieved Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 2 as appraised by The Process Group, a world-class appraiser certified by the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI). A CMM distinction is a standard for assessing a company's software development capability. By achieving CMM Level 2, FGM demonstrates well-known, repeatable ways of performing software lifecycle activities, improving quality and efficiency. FGM's over 60% growth in both revenue and staff over the last three years makes this achievement particularly significant. ...
GM works as a trusted partner with the US government, international agencies, and businesses by engineering software and systems to share, track, and control critical information. As a thriving employee-owned company, FGM delivers sophisticated, customized software solutions that support national security and international initiatives, and improve business efficiency. Through knowledge management, data integration, enterprise architectures, and Web-enabled solutions, FGM provides the results...
Canada NewsWire :: Federal Government Contributes $7.5 Million for Research on Distance Learning
...MONTREAL, QC, Oct. 16 /CNW/ - Yvon Charbonneau, Member of Parliament for Anjou-Rivière-des-Prairies, on behalf of Allan Rock, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council today announced a contribution of $7.5 million to LORNET, a new NSERC research network that will develop tools needed to create effective, interactive web- based training courses and programs.
"Telelearning means accessing knowledge and instruction where and when they are wanted, and it is essential if Canada is to successfully meet the challenges of the global knowledge economy," M. Charbonneau stated "Canada has invested a great deal in providing access to an on-line infrastructure, but this strategy can be effective only if combined with the development of electronic content," he added.
LORNET's research will be carried out in collaboration with six universities: the Université du Québec's Télé-université, the University of Waterloo, Simon Fraser University, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Ottawa, and Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal. In addition, to validate the technologies developed by this network and ensure their transfer, over thirty partners from the public and private sectors will contribute close to $1 million to the project. They will also contribute expertise and resources to ensure that the research results are disseminated widely. The network plans to provide training each year to some 40 graduate students and six postdoctoral fellows...
Yahoo :: ePeople Recognized for Delivering Business Results With KMWorld's KM Promise Award
...SANTA CLARA, Calif., KMWorld & Intranets 2003, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- ePeople, a leading provider of knowledge and expertise management solutions for resolving business-critical situations throughout the enterprise announced that it has received KMWorld Magazine's KM Promise Award, an honor that recognizes the company's success in helping organizations realize positive business results.
"ePeople is a standout in the tangible business value it delivers to its customers," said Hugh McKellar, editor-in-chief of KMWorld Magazine. "We were particularly impressed by the fast deployment and seamless integration of ePeople Teamwork into work processes and how quickly results were obtained. ePeople is credited with taking a fresh approach to the challenge of capturing, sharing and effectively reusing knowledge, which in turn is delivering significant bottom line benefits to its customers."...
...FootPrints is an easy-to-use, 100% web-based service desk that enables organizations to proactively manage internal help desk and external customer support operations. It offers a comprehensive service desk to centrally track, manage, and control issues and service requests received from email, the Internet, telephone, and wireless devices. The system includes centralized customer issue tracking, self-service online, incoming and outgoing email management, knowledge management, and powerful reporting. FootPrints can be up and running in live production in just days without any programming, consulting, or database administration...
...Sun originally embraced Honeycomb in January of 2002 when it sought a visual tool for encapsulating the data generated through SunTRAQ, a corporate knowledge management initiative designed to gather and combine data from suppliers, manufacturing, installations, sales, etc. The infrastructure for SunTRAQ was built around Sun's corporate business intelligence platform. Honeycomb was added to create an executive reporting tool that could visually summarize massive amounts of information. With its deployment of Honeycomb 4, Sun has dramatically expanded the use of treemaps to other parts of the organization...
rediff.com :: Wipro gets most admired co award
...Wipro Technologies has received the 2003 Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) award in a ceremony held in Seoul, Korea on Wednesday.
In the second annual Asian MAKE study, Wipro was recognised for creating a corporate-wide knowledge-driven culture and delivering knowledge-based products/services/solutions, according to a release issued by the company on Thursday.
The MAKE research program, conducted in association with The Know Network, consists of the annual global MAKE study -- the international benchmark for world-class knowledge-driven organisations -- and regional/national MAKE studies, the release said.
Rory Chase, managing director of Teleos, which conducts MAKE, said: "These organisations have been recognised as global leaders in effectively transforming enterprise knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions. Organisations dedicated to growth through innovation and knowledge management create shareholder value twice as fast as their competitors, according to Teleos' new Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises Study."
"Having a unified framework has helped build a cohesive knowledge base across the company accessible to the entire user community in Wipro and the benefits of this system are passed on to our customers. Our knowledge management framework captures our learnings and experiences of all our projects which allow us to share best practices with our clients," said Sambuddha Deb, chief quality officer, Wipro Technologies...
...GMSI specializes in providing government clients with IT and network services which advance communications, improve enterprise efficiencies, and increase the value and security of knowledge management systems.
GMSI's experience with federal defense and civilian agencies include the National Institutes of Health, Food & Drug Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Justice, Department of Treasury - Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and others.
Founded in 1988 by engineer and CEO Hilton H. Augustine, Jr., GMSI is a small minority-owned business headquartered in Washington, D.C. GMSI has been recognized and ranked as a leading contractor with the federal government...
newratings :: Open Text downgraded to "reduce"
...NEW YORK, October 15 (New Ratings) - Analysts at Research Capital downgrade Open Text Corporation (OTEX) from "hold" to "reduce." The target price is set to $32.50.
Shares of Open Text, a company that develops, markets, licenses and supports collaboration and knowledge management software, are currently trading at $43.84...
...GENEVA - Interzen, a leading Italian developer of innovative solutions for the mobile wireless market, today announced the company will demonstrate two new applications - Traffico, an application that reports real-time traffic conditions and Tempo, an easy-to-use weather station application, developed for QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform. Both applications will be demonstrated on GSM devices via a GPRS network at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2003 conference in Geneva, Oct. 12-18 in booth 205 (Hall 1) at the Geneva Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland...
...The CIO Summit will explore four areas of interest:
- Leadership Issues: Knowledge management and the rapidly changing workforce.
- Collaboration Conundrums: Making relationships work.
- Integrating Enterprise: Losing the loose ends.
- Mobilizing the Machine: Untethering the organization...
...Today at Citrix iForum(TM) 2003 (http://www.citrixiforum.com), Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, announced an expansion to the partnership to include a new integration with PeopleSoft, Inc. a leading provider of application software for the real-time enterprise. Citrix will make available via download a template "pagelet" that will make it easier for PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal customers to deploy non-PeopleSoft applications to the portal using the Web interface feature of Citrix(R) MetaFrame(R) Presentation Server.
The integration will provide end users with a single point of access to PeopleSoft(R) applications and other Windows(R), UNIX(R), legacy and Web applications, in addition to content and other enterprise resources, through any standard Web browser, regardless of client platform. The Citrix solution significantly reduces costs by enabling organizations to instantly integrate and publish non-PeopleSoft applications to the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal without application rewrites. Centralized application deployment through Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server also improves performance -- up to 250 percent(1) -- of applications accessed over the Web, even in low-bandwidth environments such as wireless networks. Customers will also benefit from SSL encryption of application data over the Web provided by MetaFrame Presentation Server...
K-CollectorYowza! These are great, but there has to be a better way to get this out to people. I don't suppose any of these 'wires offer RSS feeds of their material? Of course, having a friend filter out the dross is helpful too.
Posted by: Jack Vinson at October 20, 2003 04:09 PMmy sentiment exactly jack... i have been searching for such a feed and filter, and have reviewed what is currently available and found all of the current services woefully lacking... lacking in completeness, specificity, and searchability... and so i have become a human aggregator... (^:
Posted by: judith at October 20, 2003 11:02 PM