General Electric Co.'s Cincinnati-based Aircraft Engines Division today announced a new business-to-business Web site that will eventually provide custom extranet links for trading with more than 300 airline companies, aircraft manufacturers, defense contractors and others.
A friend forwarded the following to me, allegedly excerpted from an article written in 1943 for male supervisors of women in the workforce during World War II.
"This is in trouble. You'd better get down here. The guys aren't moving fast enough."
The Internal Revenue Service today issued an interim rule that will ease the tax reporting burden for "middleman" organizations that arrange the barter of banner ads on Web sites.
Beware letting IT "run the world" in e-commerce. That's the advice from Craig Barrett, president and chief executive officer of Intel, which in less than two years has transformed itself from a traditional vendor to a giant of e-commerce.
An onslaught of crippling computer viruses may ring in the new millennium, potentially causing more disruption than any Y2K issue. The specter of multiple viruses unleashed simultaneously as the calendar turns is a threat corporations should take seriously, according to analysts at the Gartner Group's Symposium/ITxpo '99 here.
A group of exhausted Ford Motor Company executives had just returned from a grueling trip to Europe and were looking forward to home and a hot shower. Suddenly, CEO Jacques Nasser brightened. "Hey, it's only the middle of the afternoon," he said. "Let's go down to the design studio. We could spend four or five hours!"
Corporate IT managers have been dreaming Internet dreams while living the realities of year 2000 preparation. But as companies near the Y2K homestretch, the next round of innovation is finally in sight
IT Project Management Is an Oxymoron - Just ask Dave Banko how he used to track time and progress on projects. "We didn't," says the project manager at Pentamation Enterprises Inc. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a maker of administrative software. "We made up project plans for customers and never did anything after that. We used paper time charts."
If you think year 2000 inventory and remediation is tough, wait till you see the 800-pound gorilla waiting around the corner.
"We'll spend about 65 percent of our project time on testing," says Tony Del Duca, year 2000 project manager at Nabisco Inc., the Parsippany, New Jersey-based maker of snacks such as Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers. "But if that's news to people right now, they'd better be looking for another job."