DoubleClick Inc. today announced that in the first half of the year, 86 customers began using products within the company’s online ad management division.
Change Management Made Easier
A friend of ours recently pointed out that the paint on our front windowsill is cracked and peeling. With equal kindness, she reminded me that it is only a few years since it was last painted. As if I needed reminding. I thought of blaming our home’s stubborn resistance to change but knew deep down that the fault lies elsewhere: with me.
Provisioning/User Management System Upgrades: Part One
Tommy Sherman daily monitors a helpdesk-provisioning queue for a large company. The current provisioning/user management system was written with homegrown software. It has not had a major update for several years. Each day, he is getting more and more frustrated. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot keep up with the increasing workload. New employees are screaming for their system ids and have no way of checking their id creation status. Existing employees are demanding timely updates to their ids when they transfer across business units. Ex-employees exist in the system months after departure. His frustrated manager will be meeting with him this afternoon to talk about his “unresponsiveness.”
Provisioning/User Management System Upgrades: Part Two
Somewhere in the world is a person who wants to see their provisioning/user management systems get a sorely needed upgrade. But they seem to be getting nowhere.
Do You Make These Ten Management Mistakes?
As a busy executive, you face some extremely difficult challenges like creating and dominating new markets or finding and keeping the best people. But then, like many executives, do you find yourself spending too much time solving everyday problems (that only you can solve, right?), which prevent you from growing your ideal business?
The 6 Critical People Management Trends that will Define the Next Decade
The top HR professionals these days are focused on a lot more than payroll and the administration of benefits. The trend in the 21st century will be to provide development opportunities to people on a custom basis, depending on the needs of individual employees.
Cycle Time Reduction – Driver to Supply Chain Management Results
Whether you are a 3PL, manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, retailer, importer, exporter, supplier, customer, logistics service provider or other type of firm that participates in supply chain management, a major key to success is time compression. Increasing velocity, rapid response to changing market conditions, minimizing time-and sustaining that velocity–are the reasons for collaboration, integration, supply chain visibility and other endeavors to accelerate the movement of product and information.
Content Management Systems: Whats the Catch?
“Content Management System” (CMS) is an expression that is widely used in relation to Web site development and maintenance today. Maybe even more than widely: the search for “Content Management System” returned 2,190,000 results pages from Google. What’s so special about it? Is a CMS a must for any individual or company that owns a Web site? Can you do without it? If you know the answers to these questions, you don’t have to read any further – this article is for those who want to find out what a CMS is and whether they need it at all.
Making the Case for Customer Profile Management
Take a look around any airport, shopping center, or restaurant and you’re bound to see people using anything from mobile phones to BlackBerries to pagers to access both voice and data services. As telecommunications customers use more services like text messaging, multimedia messaging, and personalized content delivery over more types of mobile devices, the relationship between the customer and his service provider becomes more complex.
Getting Senior Management Engaged in the Web
The extent of senior management involvement in the Web is a clear indication of the value of the Web to your organization. If your senior management currently don’t recognize the importance of the Web, then it is vital that they are educated as to its value.