This has wrong-footed the American automotive industry, which continues to produce engines of huge dimension with about 50 to 60 per cent of the efficiency of the more modern EU and Japanese designs. One of the best physical manifestations of this...
It seems to be that PowerPoint is single-handedly responsible for the demise of the human race's ability to tell a story. This method of presentation has become the dominant mode in all company meetings and conferences everywhere on the planet.
However, the definition of virtualisation varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, from virtual physical ports on hardware, through virtual placement in a silo, to all storage assets being viewed as a single, infinitely expansible pool.
Web conferencing and instant messaging allow people to have meetings sooner because shorter meetings without travel are easier to fit into diaries. Web conferencing can make a big reduction in the waste of time and money spent travelling to meetings.
Motor giant, Ford, has signed a deal with Oracle to launch an automotive supply chain network designed to streamline the car manufacturer's procurement process. The system will link 30,000 suppliers involved in the automotive giant's purchasing...
If meetings and decisions are also delayed by a lack of physical and bit bandwidth, then GDP suffers. So it is with exasperation that I am sitting in a traffic jam on the M25 listening to a government minister on the radio explaining that investing...