Design's Differentiating Power

HP's design practice helps the company to differentiate itself in the marketplace and be more efficient by leveraging the talent across its business lines. ...

... "Hurd gave his backing to Lucente's plan to ramp up the companywide design practice. These days, conventional wisdom holds that good design is indispensable for differentiating products, building brands, and forging new markets. " ...

Via Fast Company: Design's Role in HP Transformation

Organizing for Business Intelligence

Nice reference matrix on segmenting business intelligence needs to enable creation of targeted solutions. ...

... "Table 1 illustrates the characteristics and differences between strategic, tactical and operational BI. The business focus, users involved, currency of the data, and even the types of data used differ significantly, depending on the type of business intelligence. " ...

Via B-Eye: Operational Business Intelligence

Green Data Center Expansion

IBM expands data center, emphasizing energy efficiency and green design. IT can play a role in reducing an enterprise's carbon footprint and energy costs. ...

... "IBM plans to install high density computing systems utilizing virtualization technology, along with its Cool Blue portfolio of energy efficient power and cooling technologies. These technologies, in conjunction with the energy efficient design and construction, will allow IBM to reduce its overall carbon footprint compared to standard data centers, and lessen the impact to the environment. " ...

Via IBM: IBM to Build $86 Million Energy Efficient Data Center in Boulder as Part of Project Big Green

End-to-End Process Design: ERP Implementation Approach

Ergon Energy implements ERP to replace collection of legacy systems, leveraging new business process design. ...

... "We started off with business processes and designed 19 new end-to-end processes that would conduct all the business transactions within the footprint of the ERP. " ...

Via Australian IT: Utility Industry ERP Implementation