synnovation Magazine: Related News
- EDS Agility Alliance's synnovation Wins APEX Award of Excellence (11 Aug 2008)
- EDS today announced that synnovation, the Journal of the EDS Agility Alliance, was recently honored with a 2008 APEX Award of Excellence for superiority in graphic design, editorial content and overall communications quality and effectiveness.
- The ‘Governance’ Issue of synnovation Now Available Online (01 May 2008)
- The latest issue of synnovation, the journal of the EDS Agility Alliance is now available online and focuses on the genius of good governance – the complex, yet critical processes, management, and decisions geared to help keep your organization ahead of the competition.
- EDS Agility Alliance Wins 2008 ASAP Alliance Program Excellence Award (04 Mar 2008)
- In late February, the EDS Agility Alliance received the , given by The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), the leading global professional association dedicated to alliance formation and practice. Winners of ASAP’s Alliance Excellence Awards exemplify alliance best practices, innovation and organizational impact, often developing novel approaches in achieving results through collaboration.
- Making a List: Environmental Sustainability 101 (03 Mar 2008)
- So your company is going “green,” but what does that really mean? Beyond the declaration, with so many choices, causes, and initiatives, separating the “must dos” from the “nice to dos” is your first challenge.
- The Eco-Advantage (25 Feb 2008)
- Traditionally, going green means treading red. Even though environmentally sound practices are lauded, they're often considered the enemy of profit. Realigning manufacturing and supply chain processes with a strong environmental calculus can be disruptive, exacting huge costs in time, money, and intellectual capital. It's long been thought that an established company that maintains conventional manufacturing and distribution routines has a significant cost advantage over the environmentally conscious company.
- The Future Looks Green (18 Feb 2008)
- No single technology should be seen as solving a particular distributed energy demand, but a combination can remove the key problem – designing for peak demand. Peak demand is the primary cause of excess carbon generation and the area ripest for innovation in the future. EDS Fellow Alex Cameron discusses how to tame IT energy usage toward future environmental sustainability in the latest issue of synnovation Magazine.
- It's Only Innovation If It Works (19 Nov 2007)
- While having a great idea can be the basis for new and exciting innovations, it's useless if it can't be implemented. EDS has been partnering with businesses and governments for 45 years to create innovative solutions that help numerous clients in diverse industries gain a competitive edge.
- Driving Innovation (22 Oct 2007)
- Innovation isn’t easy, but in today’s competitive environment, companies must excel at it in order to succeed. In the latest issue of synnovation Magazine, EDS President and COO Ron Rittenmeyer discusses how, when done right, innovation can deliver significant financial and operational benefits to companies.
- The Customer Is King (16 Jul 2007)
- Companies have long touted the importance of “the customer,” but one look at today's business climate makes it clear why the customer – and specifically the customer experience – must be the focus of even greater attention. In issue five of synnovation Magazine, Cisco's Rob Lloyd discusses how companies' future profits will come from providing customers with rich, rewarding experiences that kept them coming back.
- Three KEYS to Outsourcing Success (25 Jun 2007)
- In the latest issue of synnovation, Towers Perrin's Gary Thompson and Mark Arian discuss the three keys to outsourcing success. When it comes to ITO, often big bets are being made by organizations and big risks taken by CIOs. And success or failure is quickly determined. So why do some organizations appear to struggle with such a mature business process as ITO?
- Don't Hold On to Your Hat (04 Jun 2007)
- The hats we wear today in our jobs probably won't be suited for the innovation workforce of tomorrow. EDS' Jeff Wacker explains how traditional roles and workforces are changing.
- Tectonic Plates (03 May 2007)
- EDS' Steve Heidt discusses the need to have the best and brightest workers to serve business needs for today and the future. Having the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time is a never-ending priority. Workforce management is one of three multidimensional global forces exerting tremendous pressure on any enterprise.
- Back To the Future (05 Mar 2007)
- Take an exclusive virtual tour of the Microsoft Center for Information Work (CIW), where a spectrum of software and hardware technologies come together to help executives understand how these technologies will empower workers in the future.
- There's Gold In the Patent Stream (12 Feb 2007)
- The patent is a powerful instrument both for harvesting the benefits of innovation and for securing the interests of innovators. In the latest issue of synnovation Magazine, EDS' Kas Kasravi discusses how compiling and analyzing freely available patent data, or patent mining, can generate useful strategic insights that will influence the course of your business.
- Workplace Transformation With Microsoft Vista (05 Feb 2007)
- In tandem with Microsoft's latest operating system, Microsoft Vista, EDS offers clients an end-to-end transformation planning and deployment service. The offering includes a complete analysis of a client's current desktop environment and will help lead EDS and its clients into this innovative workplace transformation.