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featured High Tech, Software article, How companies are benefiting Web 2.0

September 2009

How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results

The heaviest users of Web 2.0 applications are also enjoying benefits such as increased knowledge sharing and more effective marketing. These benefits often have a measurable effect on the business.

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July 2009

The US stimulus program: Taking medical records online

EMR is a technology whose time has come. Whether or not it can deliver on its promise, it will change health care profoundly.
January 2009

Google like a pro

Google’s appetite for information is its strength, but for overwhelmed users sifting through results can present a challenge. Many tools exist to help tap Google’s higher-level indexing capabilities and make your queries more efficient. Here are a few easy ones.
September 2008

Where software vendors should focus

To develop software successfully, follow an ancient rule: know thyself.
May 2006

Two new tools that CIOs want

Among the many technologies that CIOs are investigating, server virtualization and software as a service are emerging as key priorities.

2006

March 2006

Getting better software into manufactured products

The problems of embedded software are rooted in the legacies of hardware development.

2005

February 2005

Can China compete in IT services?

Fragmentation is keeping the country’s industry from grabbing a larger share of the global software-outsourcing market.

2004

February 2004

Armenia's software advantage

Armenia’s IT services and software sector could lead the way in improving the country’s economy.
February 2004

The outlook for enterprise software

In software’s coming shakeout, big companies will get bigger, while smaller ones will need to play smart or close shop.

2003

November 2003

The promise of purchasing software

New software can provide procurement managers with more information about their operations but can’t overcome flawed processes.
June 2003

Matching people and jobs

Achieving the most productive combination of workers and work is about to become a great deal easier.
February 2003

Getting supply chain software right

A study of early adopters of supply-chain-management software shows that it works best where it is needed most—but is no use as a bandage over flawed processes.

2002

August 2002

A hard turnaround for software

Software companies caught in a downward spiral find it exceptionally difficult to escape. Yet a determined few succeed.

2001

May 2001

Programmers abroad: A primer on offshore software development

Developing software in foreign lands can save time and money—but only if companies do it right.

2000

December 2000

Globalizing services

Multinational companies already understand India’s value as a platform for software development. But they now have an opportunity to move many parts of their business systems.
June 2000

The software gap

A McKinsey survey of 100 software companies around the world found clear distinctions between practices in Europe and those in the United States.
May 2000

A software subcontinent

Software and IT services are already bright spots in India’s economy, but a McKinsey study concluded that reducing government red tape and modernizing the country’s telecom infrastructure would make them a lot brighter.

1999

November 1999

The soft side of telecoms

If traditional telecom equipment vendors don’t have a strategy for the software business, they may be in the wrong business altogether.