On November 6, 2010
Building a High-Speed Expressway to the Cloud
Businesses are looking to cloud-computing models to foster agility and improve time-to-market for new services. Yet attaining cloud benefits can founder without higher levels of unified server, data, network, storage, and applications management. These typically disparate forms…
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On November 6, 2010
What’s the Value in a Brand Name?
Companies invest a lot of resources, including time, talent and capital, in an effort to procure a positive status in the minds of potential customers. But how much value do companies really derive from cultivating brand names?
According to <a href="http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyindex.cgi?id=70"…
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On November 5, 2010
iPad iOS Update: Will It Be Enough To Keep App Developers?
With a new version of iOS for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch due on Sunday, a study suggests that many app developers are looking toward Android and even Windows Phone 7.
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On November 5, 2010
Why Starbucks Should Stick to the Home Front Now
Is Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) all maxed out in the United States? In a recent opinion piece, the Wall Street Journal's John Jannarone urges Starbucks to expand aggressively overseas to grow its sales...
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On November 5, 2010
Friday Links
? I’m a big fan of strategy + business‘s author choice excerpts. The most recent recommendation, by Who Killed Health Care? author Regina E. Herzlinger, is John Torinus Jr.’s The Company That Solved Health Care: How Serigraph Dramatically…
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On November 5, 2010
Express Scripts’ Plan to Lay Off 1,000 Is No Mystery: Check Its Bank Account
Express Scripts' plan to lay off 1,000 workers isnt just about "synergy" following an acquisition. It's also about how CEO George Paz uses cash rather than debt.
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On November 5, 2010
Abercrombie & Fitch Holds Prices Down and Watches Revenues Go Up
Abercrombie's profitability continues. But is the retailer's strategy designed to work over the long haul.
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On November 5, 2010
Thanks, Google and Facebook: Everyone Gets the Regulation You Asked For
Companies like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and ad networks have pushed behavioral marketing so far that the EU now plans on more regulations.
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On November 5, 2010
Why Lying Doesn’t Hurt Executives’ Careers
While lying executives destroy their credibility and harm their companies, it now appears that lying doesn't do a whole lot to harm their careers.
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On November 5, 2010
Value Chain: Why Voters Punished Obama and the Democrats
If Democrats want to beat themselves up over the midterm results (and you know they do!), it should be for the right reasons. The failure wasn't one of rhetoric, but of nerve and of values.
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