Stories about: Philip Morris

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Advice for CIOs Struggling to Survive in Tough Times 23 January, 2009 08:00

I always thought that I was lucky to be born in Brazil, but the real value of my ancestry became apparent to me only after I became CIO of General Motors Europe. As you can imagine, a lot of my energy was consumed by the process of managing a large, decentralized team that was both multinational and multicultural.
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IT buys into sales skills 16 April, 2007 11:26

Australian IT professionals are spending more time beefing up their sales skills and less time fine-tuning their tech talent in a bid to gain a competitive edge in today's market.
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Quiet techies can be groomed to be leaders 05 March, 2007 14:00

Not all leadership qualities are ingrained at birth. You can learn some of them. But it helps if you want to lead and are willing to listen.
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SAP moves into on-demand SRM via purchase 18 May, 2006 08:06

SAP is buying its way into providing on-demand supplier relationship management (SRM) software through the planned all-cash purchase of Frictionless Commerce announced Wednesday.
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Programming contest garners enterprise interest 11 May, 2006 07:21

More than 64 computer programmers from 19 countries gathered in Las Vegas last week for the 2006 TopCoder Open, a competition where developers go head-to-head to solve a complex algorithmic problem, design an application or develop a software component for $US150,000 in cash prizes.
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Record risks 15 June, 2005 09:56

Driven by million-dollar fines, businesses are using technology to comply with legal land regulatory requirements - and regain control over electronic records.
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CIO recommends Web-based stories to meet company needs 16 January, 2003 08:23

It's a familiar job description: Make past IT investments pay. Cut spending. Meet user demands. Then do it again. What's a CIO to do? James Noble, vice president and CIO at Philip Morris Companies Inc., put it another way: "How can you be innovative and increase productivity when you're just keeping the lights on?" he asked at a recent Society for Information Management CIO Forum in New York City.
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IBM doubles up Unix clusters 05 August, 2002 08:01

IBM has doubled the size of a pre-certified cluster of Unix servers that it offers users to help them save space and cut down on management costs, the company announced Friday.
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Report: High-profile lawyer added to MS roster 28 September, 2001 08:22

Microsoft has hired trial lawyer Dan K. Webb to represent it in the remedy phase of the U.S. government's landmark antitrust case against it, the Washington Post newspaper reported Thursday.
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SAP pushing CRM applications 15 June, 2001 08:01

SAP AG is using its Sapphire 2001 user conference here to try to prove that it's a viable vendor of customer relationship management (CRM) applications.
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U.S. tech stocks fall to new year lows on election, earns 23 November, 2000 12:01

U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, with tech stocks carving out new lows for the year, as Wall Street again was spooked by the raging battle for the White House and worries about dwindling high-technology profit growth.