Business and Market Strategy

Microsoft’s $8.5bn Catch-up Gamble

Microsoft today announced that it will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake. Skype has 663 million people across the world registered to use its voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) communications, is…

How to Love your Outsourcing Partner

In the latest sign of an economic recovery and a pickup in government spending, Hewlett-Packard has been awarded a multi-year contract worth up to $2.5 billion to provide technology services to NASA. In another strategic outsourcing deal Nokia will outsource its Symbian…

How to Love your Outsourcing Partner

In the latest sign of an economic recovery and a pickup in government spending, Hewlett-Packard has been awarded a multi-year contract worth up to $2.5 billion to provide technology services to NASA. In another strategic outsourcing deal Nokia will outsource its Symbian…

Why IBM is Right about HP Strategy

HP Chief Executive Officer Léo Apotheker recently outlined new corporate strategy which fundamentally changes the roadmap for HP as we have known it. Some analysts are calling it a “seismic shift”. I am not sure I will use those words in light…

Davos 2011 – Key Messages and Themes

Davos, Switzerland, becomes the temporary capital of the planet this time of the year as world leaders converge to tackle pressing global economic and policy questions at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). It is much more than a…

The Retail Reference Architecture

The concept of “reference architecture” is often misunderstood and gets associated with IT. While the implementation may very well be IT, the reference architecture essentially is a business and operational artefact. As RUP defines, “the reference architecture in essence, is a predefined…

Making "Big Society" Happen!

The previous post of this blog outlined the Big Society Agenda, its context and the concept. Continuing with the January 2011 theme of the Big Society for this blog, this post will analyse how to make Big Society happen and  how Information…

The "Big Society" Agenda

Looking back on 2010 and analysing the events, people, decisions which shaped the year here in the UK, there is little doubt that formation of the Lib-Dem + Conservative alliance government and their subsequent policy announcements would top most lists. Austerity measures,…
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