McGee's Musings (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Before Lotus Notes or SharePoint we had Happy Hour. Arthur Andersen/Accenture grabbed an early lead in knowledge sharing because it recognized the value of a liquor license long before there was even a technological environment capable of supporting the likes of Notes or SharePoint. Their efforts demonstrate why successful knowledge management is rooted in the [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Thanks to everyone who made it out to GreenBeat 2009 yesterday and Wednesday! We were thrilled with the turnout, and couldn’t be more grateful for all the support we received from attendees, speakers, sponsors and the press. It’s clear that the Smart Grid has gained the momentum it needs for serious work to be done, and we are excited to play a big role in this conversation going forward....
Jobs in USA | Jobs in Bangalore, Canada, UK,... (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In his keynote this morning, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff continued his critique on software companies for their lack of development and sense of entitlement. And not surprisingly, the full-on pitch continued for cloud computing with a parade of executives showing the applications they developed on Force.com . About 19,000 people attended Dreamforce, the annual Salesforce.com event. Partners lined...
Applied Abstractions (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
i am writing this from Accenture's Sophia Antipolis location , where I am visiting with a group of executive students taking a course called Strategic Business Development and Innovation (the second time, incidentally, last year's notes are here ). Much of this course is around how to use technology (in a very wide sense of the word) to do innovation in organizations. To turn this into practice, my...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
When the PGA Tour packed up the Accenture Match Play Championship in 2006 and moved away from the La Costa Resort and Spa, it left a hole in the heart of a facility that had embraced professional gol
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sharon Allan, leader of Accenture’s North America Smart Grid practice, took the stage at GreenBeat2009 to present results to the firm’s survey on attitudes toward and responses to climate change and initiatives to battle global warming. Unsurprisingly, her major points also pointed to the U.S. falling behind other developed countries in battling the emission of greenhouse gases, and supporting...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The seminal conference on the Smart Grid has arrived. Our two-day inaugural GreenBeat conference kicks off this afternoon at the San Mateo Marriott, bringing together 400 utility, finance, political and entrepreneurial leaders working to make our electrical grid cleaner, reliable and more efficient. This is the first time we’ve seen the entire Silicon Valley community converge around a cleantech...
Columbus Tech Life (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
- Columbus Start-Up Develops iPhone App to Assist Companies with Market Research by Gathering Consumer Opinions Through Customized Survey s By Mark Subel TechLife Columbus Twitter: @marksubel LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marksubel Columbus, Ohio - Knowing the customer is the most important consideration for any business as they develop and fine-tune their products or services. But really knowing...
Green Options (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A new analysis from Accenture, Betting on Science; Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels , identifies 12 technologies that have the potential to be gamechangers, disrupting fossil fuel demand and reversing course on the disastrous climate changing trajectory that we are on. And, the report says, they could do it within five years. But rather than simply cheering on these exciting developments,...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
WEEHAWKEN, N.J., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Origin Digital (www.origindigital.com) , an Accenture company and a global leader in IP Broadcast and broadband media services, has extended the capacity and scalability of Odaptor(SM) , its software service platform for media management and publishing, through the deployment of high performance encoding resources within the Windows Azure platform. As a first...
Maxxelli-blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Rating Year of Establishment March, 1991 Land Area 13 km2 Location Dalian, Liaoning GDP (Value-added industrial output) RMB 26.2 billion (US$3.5 billion) FDI N.A. Utilized FDI N.A. Major Investors Genpact, IBM, HP, Accenture, Panasonic, Sony, Hitachi, NTT, NCR, Zhenao Major Industries Encouraged Software and information services, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, new materials Introduction...
TechFlash (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Companies looking to capitalize on the Azure rollout include Seattle-based Avanade, the IT consulting joint venture of Microsoft and Accenture. Avanade cites examples including Origin Digital , an Accenture company, that has built a video transcoding application on the Azure platform.
Creative Cultures (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Accenture releases three innovation studies that point to flaws in the management of innovation.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
In a Nov. 6 story citing examples of companies that changed their names to repair their images, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Accenture changed its name from Arthur Andersen as a result of an association with the Enron scandal. Accenture, previously known as Andersen Consulting, operated independently from Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm. Andersen Consulting changed its name before...
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