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Crisis Survival Kit: 3 Things Every Business Owner Need To Thrive

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:37 PM ET | Dec 30, 2008

Among the axioms flying around in these bleak financial times is that a recession is a great time to start a business. It's also a time to seize opportunities as competitors retreat and retrench. But whether you're hatching a new business or scrambling to keep the one you already have afloat, bringing 3 things to your business will put you on the path to success.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Entrepreneurs | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev | Tips

Crisis Survival Kit: Hot New Job Opportunities For 2009

Posted by Jennifer Moline 05:46 PM ET | Dec 17, 2008

With all the layoffs lately, leaving unemployed people to face a lot of competition in an already tight job market, prospects could seem bleak. But one of the goals of the incoming Obama administration is to create or save 2.5 million jobs in the next two years.

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IBM Cognos Launches Blueprint For Financial Planning

Posted by Jennifer Moline 06:08 PM ET | Dec 11, 2008

IBM Cognos, together with IBM Global Business Services, today launched the Strategic Investment Management Blueprint, with the goal of helping senior finance anticipate performance gaps, revise targets, and manage and fund strategic initiatives in turbulent times.

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Tribune Bankruptcy -- It's Their Own Damn Fault

Posted by The rANT 04:33 PM ET | Dec 8, 2008

The Tribune Company -- which owns the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, and the Chicago Cubs, among many other things -- filed for bankruptcy protection today. It didn't have to happen.

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Economics | Professional/Creative Services | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev

Telecommuting, Teleconferencing Are On The Rise

Posted by Jennifer Moline 07:26 PM ET | Dec 3, 2008

An increase in fuel prices and the continuation of the economic crisis have contributed to a higher number of businesspeople choosing to telecommute as well as conduct meetings via Web, video, and teleconferencing, according to two recent surveys. The surging popularity of the telecommuter has even spurred a new moniker -- the "cloudworker."

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Business & E-Business | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev | Unified Communications

4 Tips For Cyber Monday Profits -- Plus 3 For Your Own Shopping Savings

Posted by Jennifer Moline 07:05 PM ET | Nov 24, 2008

As more people count on Cyber Monday for big deals on holiday shopping, smaller retailers face stiff competition from big-box stores. We have some tips on how to attract and keep online customers, as well as ideas on ways to rack up big savings yourself.

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Cutting IT Costs: Dos, Don'ts And Best Practices

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:01 PM ET | Nov 12, 2008

These days, many companies are looking to slash their technology budgets any way they can. A new report from Info-Tech Research shows you how to do it the right way, without adversely affecting morale or operations. And bMighty has arranged to let you download this $2,000 report, FREE!

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Crisis Survival Kit: 6 Ways To Contain IT Costs

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:04 AM ET | Oct 23, 2008

Infrastructure -- roads and bridges -- is what keeps our society moving, literally, and without management and maintenance, it crumbles. The same is true of your company's IT infrastructure -- the hardware, software, networks, and other systems that keep your business moving require care and feeding. And that costs money. Here are 6 ways to keep those costs under control without allowing your infrastructure to deteriorate and take your business with it.

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Crisis Survival Kit: 5 Ways To Prevent Being Bought Out

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:04 AM ET | Oct 17, 2008

Right now, business owners are focused on keeping the doors open and rightly so given the business climate. But in the scramble to keep a business afloat, it's easy to overlook another threat -- acquisition from competitors with deeper pockets.

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IBM Cognos Bids For Biz Friendly BI

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:20 AM ET | Oct 2, 2008

The business side of the house is where the rubber of business intelligence meets the road of opportunity. Yet, too often business needs take a back seat to IT and/or finance requirements or processes, eroding the decision-making value of a BI investment. At least that's the issue that Cognos combats with the its newest release.

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Survey Says You Sweat Security More Than Cost. Do You?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:08 AM ET | Aug 25, 2008

A new survey of midsize businesses finds that while IT costs are important to you, security is even more so. In fact, security was ranked as the top IT concern for midmarket players.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | IT | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev | bMighty

Smaller Companies Powerless -- in Outages

Posted by Naomi Grossman 02:48 PM ET | Aug 22, 2008

Smaller companies apparently experience power outages pretty frequently, according to a recent survey. But when it comes to some sort of back up power systems, most smaller companies are in the dark.

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Storage
Disaster Recovery | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev

The Secret to Business Success: Amish Employees, Technology, and Lots of Respect

Posted by Naomi Grossman 06:01 AM ET | Aug 13, 2008

It doesn't seem like basing a company in an Amish-centered part of the country with a largely Amish employee base would be a way to develop a successful company -- most especially if that company needs automated systems in order to grow. But a combination of respect and recognition from the management coupled with passionate, committed workers who are willing to learn technology for the sake of the business makes this a formula -- for Amish-centered smaller businesses as well as all smaller businesses -- for success.

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The "Consumerization" Of Business Intelligence

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:06 PM ET | Jul 24, 2008

You might think that business intelligence is the last software category to be affected by the trend toward consumer technology eclipsing its business equivalents. But according to the CEO of BI vendor QlikTech, it's already happening.

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Finance/Accounting | IT | Management | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev

Web Site Optimization That Costs Nothing -- But Time

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:04 AM ET | Jul 23, 2008

Good, free advice is rare. Good free advice that only confirms what you've been saying all along is even rarer but yesterday both happened to me and it concerns something all smaller businesses should be doing: Web site optimization.

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