E-commuting: Improved Productivity Using Home Computers

Working away from company premises via computer and phone links is a rapidly developing trend. Business Week reports 200 U.S. firms experimenting with the process, and more than thirty already operating formal programs. The University of Southern California's Center for Future Research predicts that five million people will work this way within ten years. An "Association of Electronic Cottagers" has already been formed.

Time is Critical

Time is critical. A very familiar sentence but here used with two very special meanings. In this newsletter, we will discuss three issues, which are raised by this sentence:

Middleware is Dead. Long Live Shared Services.

IT is continually and increasingly being pressured from the business world to justify the value it brings to the company given the huge investments it absorbs. Quite rightly so, and thankfully we are moving into a new era of how we think about technology systems, moving away from duplicating data and platforms to both cause the need for EAI and the problems and costs associated…

Live on the Scene at DMA

This is a time of enormous change in American advertising, says David Verklin, Chief Executive Officer, Carat North America.