Research Notes

IT Steering Committee Meeting Agenda

A formal agenda prepared and distributed ahead of each meeting will help focus the efforts of the IT steering committee and keep all parties on track. Use this template...

Getting Past 9.11

I don't like loose ends, particularly when the attitudes and military efforts of millions of people, for decades to come, will key off the truth about critical events....

Special Letter: Can India Look After Itself?

Sixty-four years after India's independence in 1947, middle-class Indians are gripped by fears about the future. No, it is not the pathetic performance of the Indian...

Understand IRR and NPV

The business side of the organization generally uses one of two financial metrics to determine the viability and, therefore, the attractiveness of an investment: Net...

Device Confusion

Steve Jobs calls this the "Post-PC Era," so maybe it's all his fault. On the other hand, Gartner ought to take its share of the blame, since it was the first to start...

Special Letter: Diminishing Arctic Sea Ice

It's far past time for us to get beyond the oil and coal lobbies and their propaganda, and move into useful conversation with the rest of the world on how we will proceed...

Can the Markets be Saved?

This week we're going to look at U.S. equity markets, but this discussion will apply equally well to other nations' equity markets and, to a lesser degree, to other...

The Philippines for Outsourced IT Services

IT professionals who are interested in outsourcing application development, maintenance, or helpdesk services offshore have many geographic locations to choose from. The...

Data Center Requirements Planning: Seek Expertise to Ensure Success

IT shops building or refreshing the data center should seek external expertise or face incurring additional costs due to miscalculated power, cooling, and UPS...

Special Letter: Bringing "Home Energy Efficiency" into the Home

This week's letter takes many of the clean-energy issues so dear to investors and technologists today square-on, and brings the matter down to spending the same brain...
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