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"We've never looked back - now I don't understand why everyone doesn't have Lotus Notes.", Mark Bennett, Salvation Army information systems group manager

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Let your actions do your talking...

Traditional marketing is all talk and no trousers. Your customers don’t care what you say, they want to know what you do. By James Hurman

 
Converting 'Noise' into Knowledge

Converting 'Noise' into Knowledge

Rasika Versleijen-Pradhan – Senior Analyst IT Services IDC

The Collaborative CxO: Today, organisations spend a significant proportion of their IT budgets on storing, governing and securing their corporate data. In all these efforts, it is often forgotten to capture and leverage the business value of their corporate intellectual property. Enhancing the value of information by turning it from just 'noise' into knowledge, however, is the crux for the creation of strategic advantage.

 
CPIT does its ICT homework

CPIT does its ICT homework

“This isn’t in any way about ICT leading the business into ICT solutions. This is about understanding and getting people to think about what the business needs and us enabling it.” - Mark Marshall, Director, ICT Division , CPIT

 
Jericho prospers as recession bites

Jericho prospers as recession bites

Jericho's spectacular computing model

When Jericho faced spectacular growth, it needed to rebuild its computing model. The result is equally spectacular.

 
More for less at Noel Leeming

More for less at Noel Leeming

"It was a very, very successful rollout — we never really faltered." Noel Leeming Group CFO Mark Conelly

 
Queenstown council seeks clearer view

Queenstown council seeks clearer view

Queenstown Lakes District Council uses IBM's Component Business Model to map relationships internally and between its various agencies to improve information flow.

 
Synchronising the Business for Competitive Advantage

Synchronising the Business for Competitive Advantage

Louise Francis – Senior Market Analyst, Global Retail Insights, IDC

In turbulent economic climate, companies are coming to the realisation that integrated systems are the key to creating competitive advantage through flexibility, agility, adaptability and access to real-time information for effective decision making.

 
THL: New business, old idea

THL: New business, old idea

Achieving success in today's business environment depends on many factors such as speed to market, agility and protecting your technology investment. How has Tourism Holdings Limited (THL) embraced changed and used it to its advantage? By thinking of the customer first.

 
WHK does sums on IT merger

WHK does sums on IT merger

An IBM-developed IT integration strategy for national accounting group WHK is delivering enormous cost savings.

 
Zero One ups managed services ante

Zero One ups managed services ante

“To do what we do we really need a quality of infrastructure that is best-of-breed … high-speed, high-performance systems.” Zero One general manager Suraj Keshvara