Wednesday - December 31, 2008
Dell, the No. 2 PC maker in the U.S., has fired two top executives as part of a major restructuring designed to help close the gap with its largest competitor, HP. Chief Marketing Officer Mark Jarvis has stepped down; President of Global Operations Mike Cannon will retire, effective Jan. 31. Cannon will be replaced by Jeff Clarke, currently head of Dell's business client product group. The company will be restructured into four global business groups.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
People don't like to change; particularly as we get older, we take comfort in the status quo and start avoiding things that are new and different. As we get older we gain more power and this generally places the most conservative people in positions of authority. Let's look at four companies this week and how they are likely to change in 2009/2010.
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Friday - December 26, 2008
Who can replace Steve Jobs? When Apple needed a substitute after its iconic CEO backed out of delivering his annual keynote at the upcoming Macworld conference, it tapped Phil Schiller, its senior vice president of worldwide marketing. The announcement last week that Schiller will fill in for Jobs at next month's event begs a larger question: Who might step into Jobs' shoes when he eventually departs Apple?
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Saturday - December 20, 2008
Dear Mr. CEO: I just hung up on your customer service representative -- and I doubt we'll talk again. I'll be canceling my service contract in person because I want a written record that our relationship is over. If you really monitored my call "for quality and training purposes," you already know why I'm writing you.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
Business networking company LinkedIn has undergone a changing of the guard. CEO Dan Nye is out and has been replaced by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. Former Yahoo executive Jeff Weiner has joined the company as interim president and will oversee day-to-day operations.
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Saturday - December 13, 2008
You've no doubt heard that if you don't get executive buy-in for CRM it's going to fail. But is executive buy-in really all that important? Let's play fill in the blank. Read the following four paragraphs and see if you can complete the last sentence. Hint: Use the word "guillotine" in your answer.
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Friday - December 12, 2008
Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald Graham is joining the board of Facebook, connecting the popular Internet hangout with a media industry veteran. The addition of Graham, announced Thursday, marks another step in Facebook's maturation since Mark Zuckerberg started the company in a Harvard University dorm room less than five years ago.
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Thursday - December 11, 2008
In a move that could make it easier to negotiate a sale, Yahoo has overhauled a severance program that could have saddled potential buyers with a huge bill after a takeover. The concessions disclosed Wednesday in a regulatory filing were made to settle a shareholder lawsuit alleging Yahoo conceived the severance plan in February to thwart an unsolicited buyout bid by Microsoft.
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Wednesday - December 10, 2008
The United States is in a state of innovation complacency, concludes Judy Estrin, author of a new book titled "Closing The Innovation Gap: Reigniting The Spark Of Creativity in a Global Economy." In an ECT News Network interview, Estrin lays out her take on the state of innovation in the U.S. and her prescription for curing our innovation blues.
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Tuesday - December 9, 2008
Sun Microsystems' biggest institutional investor -- Southeastern Asset Management -- plans to add two new members to the struggling server maker's board of directors.
Southeastern owns 22 percent of Sun's common stock. Founded in 1975, Southeastern has $34 billion in total assets under management. Southeastern's Monday announcement comes at a time when Sun is struggling mightily.
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