Software developer, Bowstreet.com, received $60 million venture capital funding this week, as a commitment to its underlying technology, eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Bowstreet.com's main product is Web Automation Factory - an XML-based tool...
The trouble with Galileo was he didn't leverage his capital, and he didn't totally own the market, which was a massive strategic mistake. All the finest minds, in every field of human endeavourisationalisement, concentrated in one place.
For economies the potential prize is wealth creation. The key is to build on this - an economy based on knowledge, on the alliance between technology and human capital, so that we are continually developing more high value-added goods and services.
By creating a human capital management strategy that is linked directly to business goals, the IT organisation can create a team with the right people enabled with the right skills to assist the needs of the business.
Many organisations - unwittingly or not - view their human capital in this way, buying, using and selling skills rather than nurturing, developing or growing them. The very word ‘human resources’, while coined in an attempt to make people feel...
This perceived cost saving came via a reduction in capital and operating expenditure, as a result of the providers' ability to offer lower cost services through economies of scale. Enterprises are also moving towards converged networks, and the...