Changing population demographics and illness profiles mean that
healthcare providers globally are facing significant challenges in
delivering high-quality care to patients. And, as patient numbers rise,
so do the costs. Can technology provide an answer? Real Times talks to Thierry Zylberberg, Executive Vice President, Orange Healthcare. 
Real Issues - Real Solutions - Real Business
Opinion - Consultant Profile
Changing population demographics and illness profiles mean that
healthcare providers globally are facing significant challenges in
delivering high-quality care to patients. And, as patient numbers rise,
so do the costs. Can technology provide an answer? Real Times talks to Thierry Zylberberg, Executive Vice President, Orange Healthcare. Opinion - Consultant Profile
At many companies, it's hard enough for executives to
define what cloud computing could mean for the business next quarter. Defining
what it could mean in ten years is even harder. Embracing this challenge is
Thierry Coupaye, Senior Research Expert at Orange Labs, who has been working
with colleagues across Orange to envision the ways in which cloud computing
models might evolve.Opinion - Consultant Profile
By Vincent Kelly, CIO, Orange Business ServicesManaging the IT strategy for a 20,000 strong multinational company is a challenge in itself; but when you are the IT chief of a technology company, your decisions affect thousands of IT users. We talk to Vincent Kelly, CIO, Orange Business Services about how to align IT with the business.
Opinion - Guest Writer
In my last column for this publication, I wrote about how the spadework of corporate compliance in the last several years has laid the foundation for larger attempts at true, enterprise-wide risk management. This edition, I want to talk about one particular challenge in achieving that next step: measuring risk and compliance, so you can understand whether all this work is actually amounting to anything.That topic of measurement is fresh in my mind because I recently hosted an executive roundtable on the subject. Our 14 attendees - all high-level executives at large companies, serving as chief audit, risk or compliance officers of some kind - expressed remarkably similar frustrations, despite hailing from a wide range of industries.
Opinion - Customer Opinion
By Dr. Norbert Kleinjohann, CIO, Siemens AGDr. Norbert Kleinjohann explains how Siemens is transforming its IT, moving away from bespoke solutions and customized software by deploying standardized solutions such as software-as-a-service.
The technology market is always evolving, and today is no exception. Companies are reassessing the way they consume IT in light of the growing commoditization of IT and the emergence of enterprise-grade software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions.
Opinion - Consultant Profile
Many of the pressures that companies faced before the economic
crisis are still there now. They need to be responsive everywhere and
at any time, they need to differentiate themselves by creating
innovative services, they need to embrace consumer technologies like
social media and video and they have to do this all under the pressure
of globalization. The key to solving these multiple challenges, says
Yves Cany, Director of Marketing Solutions, Global Services at Orange
Business Services, is real-time business. Can you describe the concept of "real-time business?"
Real-time business uses IT solutions to deliver real-time services to employees, customers and business processes. For real-time working, this encompasses collaborative tools and anywhere-access to company data...
Real-time business uses IT solutions to deliver real-time services to employees, customers and business processes. For real-time working, this encompasses collaborative tools and anywhere-access to company data...
Opinion - Guest Writer
I imagine corporate executives are much like other human beings.
Namely, they want to do their jobs--and do them well, promptly, and
thoroughly, of course--and then go home. No such luck. Increasingly, and I'm sure to many executives' dismay, they are trapped in jobs where they must, you know, think.
Opinion - Customer Opinion
Many companies are looking to innovation to help them navigate the stormy waters of the current economic turmoil. Real Times spoke to Jean-Francois Fava-Verde, head of innovation at Orange Business Services and Sébastien Fabre, head of innovation and planning at SITA (created and owned by the air transport community, SITA is the world's leading specialist in air transport communication & IT solutions) about how the two companies are jointly harnessing the power of innovation.
Opinion - Consultant Profile
Companies should look to update their leadership training to produce
executives who have a feel for business. Eric Goldfarb, CIO of
management consultancy BearingPoint, suggests a multi-disciplinary
approach.enterprises is more about producing competent managers of current processes than creating executives with fresh vision and the skills to realize it. Traditional approaches to leadership development don't produce visionaries who inspire others, collaborate across organizational boundaries or deliver "game-changing" results amid organizational ambiguity.
Opinion - Guest Writer
SC Magazine is an intelligence source for information security and risk professionals.
In the last issue of Real Times, I wrote about the need for information security professionals to move out of the bunker, embrace new thinking and embed themselves into the business.
Since writing that piece, I have been on the road visiting conferences and expos in various countries, which I saw as a good opportunity to see whether my theories stand any chance of becoming reality.
In the last issue of Real Times, I wrote about the need for information security professionals to move out of the bunker, embrace new thinking and embed themselves into the business.
Since writing that piece, I have been on the road visiting conferences and expos in various countries, which I saw as a good opportunity to see whether my theories stand any chance of becoming reality.
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