By seizing control of the online assets and demonstrating an understanding of business goals, ambitious IT managers can show that they ought to be up there. And if they achieve that, they might also keep the MD's nine-year-old grandchild at bay.
Web and email filtering company SurfControl has made a move into the lucrative waters of the emerging Chinese market through the $15m acquisition of the assets of Linux-based filtering appliance firm SecureM - namely its MessageSoft brand.
The study, which was funded by IBM, concluded: "To the chagrin of many companies - from those with double-digit billion dollar annual revenues and up to $100bn in assets, to small businesses with less than $50m in annual revenue - CRM has yet to...
What is it you feel you can achieve by devoting more time to the foundation? You can't be speaking out on too many things at once, whether it's Microsoft saying, 'OK, let's really get this product visibility' or for the foundation picking new things.
This, combined with the growing use of RFID tagging and GPS technologies to track business assets and events in real time, means that understanding the value and impact of location on business performance has never been more important.
Once it owns Symbian Ltd, Nokia will contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Foundation, while Sony Ericsson and Motorola said they intend to contribute technology from UIQ, and DoCoMo will contribute its MOAP(S) assets.