Business Resources

• Tech Talk: Portfolio Manager Holds Virtual Event March 10, 2010
  Planview, based in Austin, Texas, is an independent leader in IT and portfolio management that has been in business for 20 years. The company holds an annual conference for clients to meet with staff, hear from keynote speakers, and discuss their issues with other customers. When some customers reported that their companies had cut their travel budgets and w […]
• Tech Talk: Game Tool Maker Betters Accounting March 10, 2010
  Emergent Game Technologies, based in Calabasas, Calif., develops tools and technologies required to build, test, manage, and expand interactive games for use on the major platforms, such as PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii. The company employs about 50 staff members in offices in the U.S., Japan, the U.K., China and South Korea and they all filed expenses, s […]
• Seamless IT Integration for Mergers & Acquisitions March 10, 2010
  Although the dust has not yet settled from the recession, companies are, at last, looking ahead. As they begin to position themselves for the recovery, the word “growth” is reappearing in their vocabularies. Despite ongoing economic worries and lagging consumer confidence, the hardiest companies are taking steps toward mergers and acquisitions as […]
• Economies of Scale: Ideas vs. Attention March 10, 2010
  I recently attended a conference where one of the speakers relayed an astonishing statistic -- for every person alive today there are one billion electrical components.  It sounds unbelievable, but when you think of all the televisions, computers, mobile phones, and other devices these components go into making, I can begin to see it. I also can see ho […]
• Use Wikipedia as a Marketing Tool March 10, 2010
  Only eight years old, Wikipedia, “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” already has more than three million articles in English alone, covering nearly all major companies and a lot of minor ones as well. Should yours be among them? “If you’re consumer-facing, it’s important to be in Wikipedia,” says Sharon Nieuwenhu […]