Tuesday, April 13, 2010

“More Business - San Francisco Chronicle” plus 3 more

“More Business - San Francisco Chronicle” plus 3 more

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More Business - San Francisco Chronicle

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:33 AM PDT

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The New York Times Launches Business Day, a New Online ... - TMCnet

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:11 AM PDT

TMCNet: The New York Times Launches Business Day, a New Online Business and Technology Section

NEW YORK --(Business Wire)--

The New York Times launched today a new business section on its Web site (www.nytimes.com), designed to be a major destination for readers seeking the latest business and technology news.

Business Day online (www.nytimes.com/businessday) has been conceived as a business home page, with a design that emphasizes the latest developments and freshest insights throughout the day. The Latest News module at the top of the page pushes a constantly updated feed of business news from The Times and other sources to the user's screen. Another section of the page, "Insight & Analysis" highlights the unique perspective of Times reporters and columnists, including blog posts, updated throughout the day. A redesign of the Markets module surfaces more markets data on the page, and the site's award-winning multimedia packages are featured prominently.

"The upshot of these changes and the newly relaunched Business Day section front is to provide our readers with all the news, analysis, commentary and business tools they need in one place - on NYTimes.com," said Lawrence Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times.

For advertisers, new ad opportunities have been added to the page, capitalizing on the fact that The New York Times is not only a major provider of business news for readers, but an innovative environment for advertisers, providing a high-quality audience.

Since the expansion of the Business and Technology section began in 2008, NYTimes.com has launched new subsections on the Economy and Energy and the Environment, and has enhanced the Small Business, Technology, Personal Technology, Your Money and Markets subsections. The Times has also hired more Web journalists, expanded its popular Bits blog and DealBook, and introduced seven new business and technology blogs.

Over the past two years, these improvements, along with exceptional coverage from well-known Times columnists such as David Carr, David Leonhardt, Ron Lieber, Gretchen Morgenson, Joe Nocera, Floyd Norris, David Pogue and Andrew Ross Sorkin, have resulted in a significant increase in traffic to the section. The Times's business coverage has won a number of prestigious awards including two Webby Awards, 11 awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in 2009 and 13 more in 2010. In addition The Times was awarded three Loeb Awards and Mr. Ingrassia was named Editor of the Year at last year's Loeb Awards.

NYTimes.com is the No. 1 newspaper Web site and a top five current events and global news site according to Nielsen Online (News - Alert).

About The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company, a leading media company with 2009 revenues of $2.4 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers and more than 50 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.

This press release can be downloaded from www.nytco.com


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Why Business Needs Should Shape IT Architecture - Forbes

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:04 AM PDT


Complexity is rife in any growing business. As companies innovate, add new business lines and products or expand their international presence, processes proliferate, and the discipline around them can go out the window. Meanwhile, the information technology that underpins these processes can also become more entangled as aging legacy systems jostle with new applications to support the needs of the business. Over time this kind of complexity can unravel technology standards and undermine the coherence of the architectural blueprint. As application volumes grow in response to a fast-changing economic, regulatory and business environment, the issue of complexity is becoming acute for many organizations. Enterprise architecture management (EAM), a framework to manage IT architecture and ensure that both the business and IT are well aligned, aims to restore order to this landscape.

Too often, efforts to fix architecture issues remain rooted in a company's IT practices, culture and leadership. The reason, in part, is that the chief architect--the overall IT-architecture program leader--is frequently selected from within the technical ranks, bringing deep IT know-how but little direct experience or influence in leading a businesswide change program. A weak linkage to the business creates a void that limits the quality of the resulting IT architecture and the organization's ability to enforce and sustain the benefits of implementation over time.

A new approach to EAM lifts such change programs out of the exclusive preserve of the IT department and places them more squarely within the business. It starts with an effort to define the architectural design in a language the business can understand, with outcomes that serve its needs more fully and efficiently, thus improving communication and helping the business and IT leadership to collaborate in developing the IT architecture. The wider engagement puts ownership in the hands of the end users--the business professionals--and therefore makes it easier for the required changes to stick and improves overall governance. Companies that have taken this approach to EAM have lowered their need for architecture-development labor by as much as 30% and reduced times to market for new applications by 50%.

A close look at how one bank employed EAM in a transformation effort offers lessons to other organizations facing similar management and IT issues.

Complexity and a lack of leadership

A diversified global investment bank found itself wrestling with an unwieldy IT environment. Acquisitions, international expansion and a raft of new products created a network of poorly integrated and, in some cases, redundant systems over the years. The absence of an enforced architecture framework for developing IT worsened the problem, giving rise to varying technology standards across the business.

Each major business line operated more or less autonomously and viewed its IT needs as specialized, even in areas such as HR and finance, where shared-services models are now considered best practice. The investment banking division, for instance, saw itself as having little in common with other units in its core activities, such as securities settlement and online transactions, even though underlying capabilities turned out to be similar across the business.

For the complete article, click here.

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How Does Your Business 'Go Green?' - WTVF

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:43 AM PDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Local companies are gathering at Lipscomb University Tuesday and Wednesday for a Green Business Summit.

Going green can be good not only for the environment but also for your business. National companies like Sam's Club, UPS and Mars will be in Nashville to talk about what they do to reduce their carbon footprint as well as boost profits.

Workshops include calculating carbon footprint, the future of green retail and case studies for businesses who have improved their financial investments through sustainable operations.

Speakers include Catherine Corely, vice president of member program development at Sam's Club, and Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle.

The event's first Green Business Leadership Awards will be presented by Waste Management.

The conference also makes scholarships available to minority-owned small businesses with a legitimate interest in going green.

NewsChannel 5 would like to know what your company does to "Go Green".

Take your camera or cell phone and shoot pictures or video of your company's efforts to recycle or reduce energy consumption, and garbage.

Send your photos or video to my5@newschannel5.com throughout the day. Please include your name, and your company's name and location.

The photos will be posted on our web site, and some of the best will even make it on the air tonight during our newscasts.

View all our viewer-submitted photos by logging onto my5.newschannel5.com.

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