Strategy

Lenovo's smartphone shipments grew 206% year-over-year in the quarter

PC sales in China and high growth in smartphones shipments helped boost Lenovo's net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter by 90 percent year-over-year. read more

Enabling intelligent systems

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Collaboration and data sharing across different departments can benefit all parties involved, and can often lead to efficiency improvements or even increases in revenue

Local governments must address the needs of diverse and often growing constituencies with limited and often dwindling resources — following that age-old mandate of doing more with less. read more

The digital transformation of retail starts here, according to Encore Tickets CIO Chily Fachler

Ironically for a sector that is so good at looking outward, the IT departments of the retail sector can be very introverted. Too often the question is “what systems worked best for us as a company?” Or “how we could best do our jobs and achieve productivity and efficiency?” This introverted view doesn’t put the customer first. read more

Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy to focus on private clouds

Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, cancelling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market. read more

Graeme Hackland sayd the IT department needs to focus on protecting the data, rather than controlling the apps

Having an application strategy that allows employees to find and develop their own solutions is key to maintaining control of an enterprise IT environment, according to Graeme Hackland CIO at Lotus F1. read more

He takes over from Paul Otellini, who retired

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted Thursday in his first speech in that role that the company has been weak in smartphones and tablets, but aims to improve by advancing chip and manufacturing technologies. read more

End-user computing must be thought about holistically

Ask anyone in the industry about the future of end-user computing and the chances are that the response will major heavily on smartphones and tablets, and perhaps BYOD in relation to these. read more

Dell reported another weak quarter as its founder fights to make it a private company

Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue yesterday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private. read more

From buzzword to the norm, Encore Tickets CIO Chily Fachler writes about his journey into multichannel retail

Multichannel is no longer the buzzword having been around since 2005. The emergence of the multichannel buzzword used synonymously with internet or digital selling served to focus CIO minds on the new channels available, but multiple channel is not a new thing. Savvy consumer organisations have been reaching their customers in stores, at home, via the post and telephone long before the internet was even invented. read more