Business leaders are still upbeat about the benefits of technology adoption. It's key to their market penetration, central to competitive differentiation,...
We spend considerable time educating businesses about the value of managed service providers (MSPs). Now it's time to tackle the next logical question:...
The business case made the argument for Kline & Company, a management consulting and research firm about to celebrate its 50th anniversary, to investigate...
Novell has canceled BrainShare. Apple is ending appearances at MacWorld. And thousands of businesses continue to cut their travel budgets for 2009.I've...
If you've ever had to add or move employees, you know that one of the biggest hassles is dealing with the telephone system. While many companies are deploying...
I received an email the other day congratulating me on a column I wrote for NetworkWorld nearly three years ago entitled, "Why Managed Services Fail."The...
All business has become global. Companies of any size can now market products and services worldwide over the Internet. At the same time, competition...
There's a touchy little secret about call centers: their employee turnover is atrocious; it can reach as high as 26 percent per year, according to one...
While traveling across North America in recent weeks, I've heard about the same two-part trend from multiple sources: Some small businesses are reducing...
New studies demonstrate the pros and cons of Business Technology deployments, especially as they relate to IT investments strategies.First, the downside:...
I'm going to pull a Paul Harvey on my colleague Joe Panettieri. He wrote a couple of weeks ago about the managed service offerings of companies such as...
There's a new term in the managed services space -- Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), and it's an obvious extension of the SaaS model. Desktone is a company...
As industry analyst forecasts mount predicting the rapid growth of managed services, an increasing proportion of IT and business decision-makers are taking...
Do you believe that the growth of managed services adoption will have little impact in the government sector, or other non-profit organizations? Think...