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

Enabling Growth: Interesting Insights into China Market

Interesting insights on China market from Bain and Co. Consumers are moving up-market, while local and multinational players adjust and adapt to capture the higher growth market segments, through operational efficiency and quality improvement. ...

... "The result: China's middle market is growing faster than the premium and low-end segments combined, and accounts for nearly half of all revenues in some product categories such as televisions and washing machines. " ...

Via Bain & Company: China Battleground

SOA Awareness High Among Asia Project Managers

Surveys confirm awareness and comfort with SOA technology and an uptick in SOA project investments. ...

... "Dr. Patrick Chan, Research Director of Asia-Pacific Emerging Technologies Research at IDC, explained that most IT project managers have positive attitudes and strong understanding of SOA with mid-sized and larger corporates with more budget power. " ...

Via SDA Asia: SOA Market Pulse

Cloud Computing For Hyperscale DataCenters

Dell makes move up-market to compete more directly in the data center big-leagues. Can it differentiate itself?

... "Dell's Cloud Computing Solution is designed to provide data center optimization, increased energy efficiency, and lower deployment and overall management overhead for customers whose IT infrastructure, or compute cloud, is the factory for their business. These data-intensive customers include major providers of goods and services over the Internet, financial services organizations, national government agencies, institutional university and laboratory environments and upstream petroleum producers. " ...

Via Dell: Dell Announces Cloud Computing Solution to Address Unique Needs of Hyper-Scale Data Centers

Leadership Responsibility For Achieving IT Project Success

Good set of anecdotes for the role of CIO and business leaders to sense and respond to market dynamics and project risks in order to achieve success. Success sometimes means an earlier project kill, so that investment can be shifted to new opportunities. ...

... "McCaig says governance must sit separately to retain its impartiality, because it is the compass for the business in terms of technology-based change projects. " ...

Via IT Week: Role of Leadership for IT Project Success ...