The drastic action is being taken to protect the company's £35m cash reserve which has been ear-marked for future growth. Simon Barker, InterX CEO, said in a statement: "I fully appreciate that the last two weeks have been a time of great...
He suggested companies should assess marketing efforts using both internal and external measures. IDC's survey, which focused on business-to-business marketing, also showed that marketing budgets are stabilising.
This is then followed up with a post-change benchmark to validate the improvement programme's goals. Leading IT executives use benchmarking to categorise performance into a baseline of measures that a performance improvement programme can act upon.
It is pointed out that GDP can be highly misleading because it measures only the formally constituted economy. But it seems we are pretty selective in the measures we use to demonstrate progress. Any economist knows that if, instead of doing their...
Campbell's Bill aims to put an end to that, with all departments with R&D budgets over £20m obliged to use SMEs for 2.5 per cent of the work. Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, who proposed the Bill told silicon.com the reaction to the Bill...
IT bosses are being urged by analyst Gartner to take pre-emptive cost-cutting measures well before any actual recession begins to bite. With concerns increasing about the short tem future health of some of the world's leading economies, Gartner...