Without a doubt, alterations are needed in terms of tax credits to encourage research and development and also to improve the corporate tax regime for entrepreneurs. To encourage funding - despite the almost certain lack of positive tax relief...
Organisations need to monitor and measure their effectiveness, to challenge working practices and modify operations in concert with technology, markets and customers. The worse cases I have witnessed include working environments where people are...
In a report published on Friday, the Government Accountability Office said 13 of the largest federal agencies are already using RFID or plan to use it. RFID is a catchall term for a broad array of technologies that includes everything from battery...
One way to encourage contractors to provide comprehensive and accurate data with which to monitor performance is to develop a common purpose and sense of openness with contractors to encourage them to be frank about risks they are running and...
Those managers who do try a more holistic approach will find themselves cobbling together figures in exactly the kind of best-guess method that today's CIOs, hardened by calls for better accountability in IT, find distasteful.
So unless a business sets absolute targets on the energy usage of IT, efficiency efforts may be wasted at best, while at worst may actually encourage more wasteful use of IT services. Firstly, energy efficiency is not the sole measure in comparing...