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Finding your niche in IT consulting
Do you ever feel like your skills and talents are going to waste? It might be because you haven't found your niche within the IT consulting market. Contributing writer Edwin Smith explains how it's done.When family members and friends asked you as a child what you wanted to be when...
Tags: Strategy, Edwin Smith, skill set, IT Consulting, specialty area
Technical articles 2001-01-08

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Unitrin Specialty: A Well-Oiled SCM Machine
Unitrin Specialty, a division of financial services firm Unitrin, Inc. (NYSE: UTR), is a specialty automobile insurance company based in Dallas, Texas. Unitrin Specialty's manual software development process was tedious and prone to more errors with recent impressive company growth and new business. The pressure to keep high customer satisfaction...
Tags: Customer Satisfaction, Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Unitrin Specialty, Change Management, Product Marketing, Financial Planning, Insurance, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Management, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Software/Web Development
Case studies
Royal Specialty Improves Workflow and Increases Productivity With Avaya Mobility Solution
RSUI is a leading underwriter of wholesale specialty insurance. The challenge was to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace by implementing a converged messaging system that would allow its underwriters to improve response times, and better organize and respond to phone, fax or e-mail messages. By foregoing traditional voice...
Tags: Mobility, Messaging, Workflow, Avaya Inc., Specialty, RSUI, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
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McKesson Specialty Standardizes Sales and Marketing Processes and Increases Customer Visibility
A division of the McKesson Corporation, McKesson Specialty delivers the new approaches and solutions needed to ensure success in the evolving specialty pharmaceutical market. The company wanted to increase company-wide visibility into sales activities and customer accounts and standardize and automate sales and Customer Relationship Management CRM processes. The challenge...
Tags: Oracle Corp., McKesson Specialty, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing
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knowledge power
Interested to know more about pc troubleshootingTake an A+ course to get your certificationfor the hardware side of things. Then get certs on laptops normally available from the manufac on how to repair thier products. Become familiar with diagnostic tools (Microscope, Troubleshooter, different ram tests, etc). Become...
Tags: Quality, PRODUCTIVITY, Memory, Viruses and worms, c_malditah@..., knowledge
Discussion threads 2007-05-18
Student working to get a IT degree, but what certs. should i get?
I know A+ is the starter certification that most everyone gets, but what should i get afterwords? I'm very interested in security, but it seems to me that you have to go through networking and then on to security which is fine with me seeing as networking is also very...
Tags: airsf4@..., information technology, certification
Discussion threads 2007-05-03
CompUSA to close shop
An "orderly wind-down" was initiated after CompUSA was acquired by a private equity firm. According to CNET News.com: ... it was sold to Specialty Equity, an affiliate of private equity firm Gordon Brothers Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the immediate result is...
Tags: CompUSA Inc., Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-12-07
Wockhardt Hospital Enhances Patient Experience and Improves Management
Wockhardt is the fourth largest pharmaceuticals company in India and the largest in the U.K. In addition to manufacturing drugs, it also operates a chain of specialty hospitals. As part of the company's plan to accelerate growth, the hospital division was identified for special focus and new hospitals were being...
Tags: Patient, Hospital, Hospital Management, Wockhardt, Healthcare
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Ciba Specialty Chemicals Gains Flexibility Plus Savings With Network Appliance
Ciba Specialty Chemicals is a leading global company dedicated to producing high-value effects for its customers' products. The core challenge was to implement a storage architecture that eliminates the backup and recovery, capacity utilization, and manageability issues associated with an existing DAS environment. The solution to this was achieved by...
Tags: Chemicals, Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Storage, Hardware
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PM and IT question
I have about 19 years of both IT and business experience. I have worked across areas like software development, marketing, product management, web design/development and others. to go after PM jobs, do I need a deep specialty in one area or are there good jobs where I can...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, arbora2, information technology
Discussion threads 2007-08-30
MedPointe Pharmaceuticals Keeps Improving Customer Service and Worker Productivity With Good Technology
MedPointe is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, markets and sells branded prescription therapeutics in the areas of allergy/respiratory, neurology and cough/cold. In the competitive specialty pharmaceuticals market, MedPointe's mobile workers needed an edge to provide superior service to their customers and stay ahead of their rivals. The company deployed...
Tags: Customer Service, Good Technology Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Worker, Motorola Inc., MedPointe, Wireless
Case studies 2006-06-15
A Company Built on Customer Service
In order to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive marketplace, International Specialty Products ISP, a recognized global leader for developing, manufacturing, and supplying innovative specialty ingredients that enhance product performance, turned to CRM to meet and exceed these demands. ISP initiated their CRM project in the fall of 2004....
Tags: Customer Service, CRM, International Specialty Products, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Product Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
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Presto Foods Prospers With Avaya IP Office
Presto Foods, a distributor of pizza and other Italian specialty food products, prides itself on growing a small, family-run business into a regional presence in food service in the Ohio, USA area, while maintaining the highest quality of service that people expect from a family-owned and operated business. To maintain...
Tags: Food, Avaya Inc., Presto Foods, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
Case studies
Avaya Case Study: Aetna
Aetna is one of the nation's leading providers of health, dental, group, life, disability and long-term care benefits. Its focus is on meeting customers' needs. Aetna continues to introduce innovative products, delivers strong customer service and provides easy-to-understand information. Aetna Specialty Pharmacy sought a state-of-the-art solution, which would provide a...
Tags: Aetna Inc., Avaya Inc., Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
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Images: 3D online shopping at Brookstone
Specialty retailer opens a virtual-reality store that mimics the real thing. by CNET News.com
Tags: 3D, news, ecommerce, TechRepublic Inc., Retail, CNET News.com
Image galleries 2007-11-28
Specialty Chemicals Company Streamlines Product Development With Web-Based Solution
Specialty chemicals company Rohm and Haas develops such technically advanced products as coatings, sealants, adhesives, and performance chemicals. Rohm and Haas's Architectural and Functional Coatings business unit uses the proven Stage-Gate process to help manage its product research and development, but with up to 75 projects in its portfolio at...
Tags: Chemical Company, Web, Microsoft Corp., Engineering, Product Development, Performance Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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BSC Calculators Set (exe)
Calculators Set. A set of seven calculators features: Standard, Scientific, Geometric Calculator: Area of rectangle, Area of a circle, Volume of a rectangular solid, Area of parallelogram, Area of a triangle, Circumference of a circle, Volume of a right circular cylinder, Fraction, Unit Converter: Length, Area, Weight, Volume, Capacity and...
Tags: Circle, Balanced Scorecard, Marketing, Marketing Research
Software downloads 2004-09-27
Specialty Contractor Finds New Ways of Doing Business With New Digital Note-Taking Program
The Nassal Company is a leading specialty contractor for entertainment-related projects such as the Men in Black Alien Attack ride at Universal Studios Florida. Each project requires field managers to obtain input from clients, designers, and consultants. In the past, field managers faxed project photos to team members, but the...
Tags: Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Corp., Manager, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software
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Mobile Solution Helps Specialty Chemicals and Materials Company Improve Customer Focus
Global specialty chemicals and materials company Cytec Industries develops, manufactures, and sells value-added products to markets such as aerospace, adhesives, automotive and industrial coatings, inks, and plastics. In April 2006, the company began searching for a mobile solution that would give its global work force around-the-clock access to Microsoft Office...
Tags: Chemicals, Solution, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Time Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Online Communications, Software, Productivity
Case studies 2007-12-01
IT jobs way up there on Dept. of Labor's most growing occupations
The U.S. Department of Labor published a table showing the fastest growing occupations for the years 2004-2014.I thought it was pretty interesting that out of the thirty job areas they listed, 1/3 of most are IT related and all are located in the top half of the list. Most of...
Tags: information technology
Blog posts 2007-02-27
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