Technology Planning

• IT Cost Reset

  As businesses cut their IT budgets, it's important to find creative ways to cut costs without compromising quality.
  Mike Gorsage

• Lessons from Web 2.0: Fast Track Innovation Process

  Web 2.0 companies have some natural advantages that help them innovate fast. The good news: You can use the same Web 2.0 methods to foster innovation, even if your business is offline.
  Vijay Chittoor

• Using Cloud Computing to Simplify IT and Unlock Resources

  Tomorrow’s forecast? Clouds -- with a good chance of success. Is cloud computing right for you? When you understand the risks and engage in constant due diligence, you can reap the rewards of this accelerating technology.
  Mike Gorsage

• Online Accounting: Numbers in the Cloud

  Web-based tools make sophisticated financial management usable and affordable to all small businesses.
  Andrea Peiro

• Tech Talk: Circuit Maker Automates Accounting Processes

  An integrated circuit designer and manufacturer that supplies electronics companies deployed new accounting software to better manage the reconciliation of accounts for the company's balance sheet.
  Elizabeth Wasserman

• Time to Renegotiate Vendor Contracts?

  With the economy in major slowdown mode, now may be a good time to try renegotiating some of those one-sided vendor contracts you entered into in better times. Everything really is negotiable -- even a contract you’ve already signed.
  Minda Zetlin

• Big IT Lessons Small Businesses Can Learn

  What are the key technology lessons that small and mid-sized businesses can learn from large enterprises?
  Mary O. Foley

• Reboot: Reinventing a Technology Startup

  Startups flounder for a variety of reasons. It's up to the management team to chart a new course. Which approach to reinvention will succeed and which one will fail?
  Anand Rajaraman

• Boosting Revenues with Better Data

  The economic downturn should convince IT managers to re-evaluate whether they are making the best use of IT, from maximizing use of customer data to virtualizing servers.
  Mike Gorsage

• Social Media's Good, Bad, Ugly and Unexpected

  It’s no longer a question whether you should embrace social media. It’s now a question of identifying the business opportunities in doing so.
  Brent Leary

• Tech Talk: Fruit Seller Uses Tech to Cut Costs

  An Oregon-based online fruit retailer found that investing in technologies --from business management software to a new label maker -- helped increase sales and lower costs in these tough economic times.
  Elizabeth Wasserman

• Doing More IT with Less Money

  The recession is driving small businesses to make tough choices when it comes to IT -- deferring upgrades, cutting back on outside consultants and in some cases, cutting staff.
  Michelle V. Rafter