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3 July

Approaches to successful innovation

published on Orange Business Live

I read an interesting article on innovation today that looked at the ideas of David Midgely, marketing professor at INSEAD, who has written a book called the Innovation Manual. Although many companies are looking towards innovation to help them gain market...

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2 July

Cisco teleworkers are proud and productive

published on Orange Business Live

Cisco has released the findings of a study of 2000 teleworking employees - it seems they are a happy bunch, more productive and helping the technology giant save a whole pile of cash. The consulting arm, Cisco Internet Business Services...

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26 June

our recommendations to businesses vis a vis security issues in social media (2/2)

published on Orange Business Live

Following our previous post in which we were able to demonstrate how one could get into the private life of an individual thanks to the information the latter has provided about him/herself on various social networking platforms, this second instalment of our demonstration shows...

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25 June

US broadband market picks up in Q1 2009

published on Orange Business Live

The latest world broadband statistics from Point Topic have just been published By the end of Q1 2009, there were 429.2 million broadband subscribers worldwide, an increase of 4% over the last quarter of 2008. This put global broadband household penetration at...

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18 June

Good news: IT spending out of step with economic cycle

published on Orange Business Live

When IDC forecast global IT spending earlier in the year would remain the black, it did not foretell the utter collapse of the IT industry. Instead it suggested that while demand will be down in all regions it would not...

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16 June

should the business world panic in these times of crisis?

Professor Norbert Walter, Chief economist of Deutsche Bank Group is a well known figure,  and one of the few economists who displayed vision and courage in order to warn the world about the forthcoming credit crunch before it even happened. We were very lucky to have Pr. Dr Walter as a key speaker at our Orange Business Live 2009 event (which we covered in near real-time on a special multimedia blog). 

The event was a success and Dr Walter's presentation about the recession and how businesses should react in such a difficult environment, is still to this day one of the most successful ones (2000+ visits in just 5 working days). We tried to capture the spirit of this presentation in a short video which sums up Dr Walter's impressions, which is available from Orange Business TV and also hereafter. 

We have also created a poll in order to let you express your feelings about this recession and how it is impacting your business (see survey below) .


answer our poll on the recession and how your business is coping with it: 

24 April

RFID in the supply chain

The whole chain from the initial order of a product to the final delivery with picking/shipping at supplier's premises, transport/delivery and end consumer and partners traceability requests.


31 March

Portrait of an Internet pioneer


1-person-speaks-board.gifWe have just published a series of portraits and one of the videos on which I'd like to focus is that of our friend and colleague Rob Evans. Rob is not in charge of developing social media in the UK although he would have every right to be. He is in fact head of telecom integrated operator group. In essence, his job is about Sourcing. His involvement in social media and the Internet in general is stirred by passion, I think you'll get that from the interview.

He has been online since 1996-1997 working with the mobile industry and he has been a blogger since ... 2003! That is to say one year before O'Reilly coined the phrase Web 2.0 at a famous conference. What I find most fascinating in Rob's story though is not just that, but how he can use his passion and extra-curricular activities to fuel his day to day job. Most impressive stuff. Rob's articles on the Orange Business Live blog can be found by clicking this link.



3 March

the people behind ... series (part one)

When we started building our new page about outsourcing (aka )Large Projects at Orange Business Services we then decided to add a new section about the "people behind large project". It appeared to us that it would be rather interesting to get our people who actually get things done in the field to explain what large projects was about and what we were delivering and how and seeing the people that our clients actually meet in person when they decide to embark on a deal. Most of the people I interviewed in this series are guys whom I worked with in the field, responding to rfp's etc. One of our first videos to be posted on the http://orange-business.tv webtv site is that of Rob Hodgkinson - Head of practices and training - who explains what Large Projects is about. A section is also devoted to this on the website at that URL

26 February

a new landing page for our Orange blogs

Our blog galaxy is building up. We are now proposing this new landing page as a means to better navigate the sites and social media spaces that we have created for you. At the top of this page you will have a list of the most recent updates on our blogs, sorted by date and with a link to the original article. Below is another blog which our Orange Business Services web team will be using in order to warn you of all the new features that we have prepared for our readers. And I can assure you that there are quite a few.

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