In a companywide memo, M&I Bank officials are reminding employees that they should not use their office computers to listen to music on the Internet or watch non-business streaming video. The memo, which was obtained by the Journal Sentinel, came as the NCAA men's basketball tournament...
The number of workers that IBM employs in the U.S. declined by about 5% last year, but the company's overall head count is increasing because of overseas hiring. IBM finished 2008 with 115,000 U.S. employees, down from the 121,000 it reported at the end of 2007,...
Facebook directs more of its users to Google than to MSN or Yahoo, and the social networking site has also seen an uplift of 198% in the number of visitors accessing its portal via the search engine, suggesting the relationship between the two is currently...
Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to improving an organization's business processes. It ideally helps large companies better understand the complex interaction between employees and computer systems and automates mechanical business processes so employees can use their skills in more value-added ways. But...
I.B.M.’s interest in acquiring the server computer maker Sun Microsystems for nearly $7 billion may seem at first to be a reversal of its recent efforts to move away from the hardware business. But analysts say there is more to Sun than servers, which are used...
Vivek Kundra, who was on leave from his new appointment by President Obama as the federal government’s chief information officer, has been reinstated, the White House said today. White House officials confirmed to The New York Times that Mr. Kundra had been reinstated today; it was...
Talent retention can be a challenge, even as bad times persist. CIOs must keep essential workers happy, be prepared to hire opportunistically and to resume growth when the economy improves. That means reacting and adapting to a changes in the job market and having flexible...
Business and technology strategies must converge, not just align. And leaders at New York-Presbyterian Hospital are demonstrating how the success convergence can bring. Every study shows that organizations as a whole, especially chief information officers, continue to struggle with business-technology alignment. It remains one of the...
At a time when consumers are increasingly questioning companies that invest big dollars in sports sponsorships, Bank of America has defended its sports marketing activities. Multimillion-dollar sports marketing deals are worth the investment because for every dollar spent on sports marketing, the company gets $10 in...
With the economy taking a toll on even social-networking sites, eMarketer reduced its global forecast for advertising in the sector this year to $2.3 billion, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Social networks, on a worldwide basis, are expected to post advertising growth...