New Realities about B2B BuyingJeff Ogden of Find New Customers debunks five old-fashioned assumptions about how enterprises buy today in this post to the SandHill.com Blog on software sales.
Envisioning a Software Distribution Hub
Jake Sorofman of rPath explains the benefits of a centralized IT hub which would reduce complexity and increase control in this post to the SandHill.com Blog, "New Era, New Thinking."
Newsweek Moves to the Cloud
Kamesh Pemmaraju interviews Newsweek's CIO about the process of moving mission-critical apps online in this post from his weekly blog, Leaders in the Cloud.
Letter to a Newly Appointed CEO
McKinsey's former managing director Ian Davis offers to new CEOs advice distilled from his experience supporting executives during their transitions into the role. Read Davis’ perspective in this article from The McKinsey Quarterly.
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Top Stories from the Past Week
- House Votes Yes to Discourage Outsourcing (CIO)
- Top Windows Exec to Head HP Software (Redmond ChannelPartner)
- Oracle to lay off more Sun workers (BusinessWeek)
- How Sybase rescued itself and became worth $6 billion (InfoWorld)
- House Allocates $84 Billion For Technology R&D (InformationWeek)
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All Headlines: Keeping cloud costs grounded.
VC Activity: Enterprise collaboration vendor Socialtext receives $2.3 million.
M&A Deals: CDC Software buys government cloud vendor iDC.
Executive Moves: Beatriz Infante named Chief Executive Officer of power consumption software company, Carbonetworks.
Quote of the Week
“In this legislation, which is job creating, it closes the loophole which has allowed businesses to ship jobs overseas.”
- House Speaker Speaker Nancy Pelosi on passing the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act
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