Technology: 2013

World Wide Technology Biography
World Wide Technology, Inc. (commonly abbreviated WWT) is a systems integration company founded by David Steward and Jim Kavanaugh in July 1990. WWT provides technology and supply chain solutions with a focus on the commercial, government and telecom sectors. The company aids its customer base in the planning, procurement and deployment of IT products and solutions.
Based in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, WWT is the largest Cisco reseller to the U.S. Federal Government and holds several major purchasing contracts including ITES-2H, SEWP and is on the GSA Schedule. WWT employs over 1,700 people and operates more than 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2) of warehousing, distribution and integration space in 21 facilities[1] throughout the world. In 2011, WWT's total revenue is $4.1 billion, making it one of the largest African-American owned companies in the United States. [2]Project Socrates determined that to rebuild US competitiveness, decision making throughout the US had to readopt technology-based planning. Project Socrates also determined that countries like China and India had continued executing technology-based (while the US took its detour into economic-based) planning, and as a result had considerable advanced the process and were using it to build themselves into superpowers. To rebuild US competitiveness the US decision-makers needed adopt a form of technology-based planning that was far more advanced than that used by China and India.
Project Socrates determined that technology-based planning makes an evolutionary leap forward every few hundred years and the next evolutionary leap, the Automated Innovation Revolution, was poised to occur. In the Automated Innovation Revolution the process for determining how to acquire and utilize technology for a competitive advantage (which includes R&D) is automated so that it can be executed with unprecedented speed, efficiency and agility.
Project Socrates developed the means for automated innovation so that the US could lead the Automated Innovation Revolution in order to rebuild and maintain the country's economic competitiveness for many generations.[51][52][53]

World Wide Technology

Technology And Business

Technology And Business Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Business Technology [1] is a term that describes the business practice of converging technology and business strategy. As an emerging evolution of information technology, business technology attempts to use hardware and software as more than tactical support systems; using technology as a strategic development tool. Business technology is being used more and more everyday.
The increasing use of the term business technology in IT forums and publications is due to an emerging school of thought that the potential of information technology, its industries and experts, has now moved beyond the meaning of the term. Specifically information is seen by some as a descriptor not broad enough to cover the contribution that technology can make to the success of a business or organization.
Business technology is implemented by business technologists. These professionals have an understanding of business strategy and the capabilities and availability of contemporary technology and look for ways to enable the successful implementation of business strategy through the implementation of that technology.[citation needed]
Business technology is being openly adopted as a way to describe the practice of several companies and organisations in the IT arena. CIO magazine describes its content as business technology leadership. Business technology management has several associated organisations that promote the convergence of business and technology and describes business technology management as a management science that seeks to unify business and technology decision-making at every level in an enterprise. Siemens IT Solutions and Services has positioned itself as the business technologists.

Technology And Business

Technology Consulting

Technology Consulting Biography
The four basic principles of IT consulting are:
Focus on the relationship: Understanding the personality and expectations of client, client organization and all other stakeholders
Clearly defined role: Defined roles and responsibilities for both clients, other stakeholders and consulting team
Visualize success: Helping the client see the end at the beginning
You advise, they decide: Client is the best person to decide
[edit]Prerequisites and major obstacles
Once a business owner defined the needs to take a business to the next level, a decision maker will define a scope, cost and a time-frame of the project.[1] The role of the IT consultancy company is to support and nurture the company from the very beginning of the project till the end, and deliver the project not only in the scope, time and cost but also with complete customer satisfaction.[1]
[edit]Project scoping and planning
The usual problem is that a business owner doesn't know the detail of what the project is going to deliver until it starts the process. In many cases, the incremental effort in some projects can lead to significant financial loss.
[edit]Business process and system design
The scope of a project is linked intimately to the proposed business processes and systems that the project is going to deliver. Regardless of whether the project is to launch a new product range or discontinue unprofitable parts of the business, the change will have some impact on business processes and systems. The documentation of your business processes and system requirements are as fundamental to project scoping as an architects plans would be to the costing and scoping of the construction of a building.
[edit]Project management support

The most successful business projects are always those that are driven by an employee who has the authority, vision and influence to drive the required changes in a business. It is highly unlikely that a business owner (decision maker or similar) will realize the changes unless one has one of these people in the employment. However, the project leadership role typically requires significant experience and skills which are not usually found within a company focused on day-to-day operations. Due to this requirement within more significant business change projects/programs, outside expertise is often sought from firms which can bring this specific skill set to the company.

Technology Consulting

Saturday, 2 February 2013

Technology And Business

Technology Consulting