A new book, The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business by Thomas Davenport and John Beck (Harvard Business School Press), argues that the new scarcest resource isn't ideas or even talent: it's attention.
RFID cannot be considered in isolation but should be seen as part of a whole stock management system comprising elements including bar codes, GPRS tracking of vehicles and supply-chain management software, said O'Neil.
A few years later, in an economy that's not so buoyant, the higher-ups have got their sights firmly set on cost-cutting - and it's IT in the firing line. The volte-face in buying habits is hardly surprising given that similar research was last...
Most recently, M&S has been trialling RFID tracking technology. And while it flew in the face of a silicon.com campaign to promote senior techies to board level it didn't hamper the retailer's close involvement with technical development.
IDC, however, claims that as the economy continues to improve and stabilise these very large companies will increase their IT spending and return to higher than average growth between now and 2008, driving demand in many innovative areas such as...
Analysts and the wider IT community have largely validated the open source model for software but Ingres will face a tough battle. In a statement CA said the deal - for which no value has been disclosed - will allow it to concentrate on its "core...
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