Through complete end-to-end insight into the factors that impact company performance, you can significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage. 

This exclusive Computer Weekly research reveals how UK IT departments are prioritising their budgets in 2012, which technologies they are investing in, and the impact of cloud computing, mobile and other disruptive technology on their IT strategies. 

Today's businesses need to make their brand unique-- but with all the challenges they face regarding supply chain management, what is the solution? 

This first chapter of Better Business Practices Series, explores the many benefits of cycle counting. Chief among them is the elimination of an annual physical count of your inventory. While cycle counting is the preferred inventory counting process, many companies still conduct annual counts. 

Read this white paper to learn what total automation can do for an industrial/manufacturing enterprise, how it can dramatically improve operations by providing real-time data to all the interdependent parts of the supply chain. 

Enterprises that archive their database often find more than one benefit to doing so, whether it’s business, infrastructure, or cost-related. In addition, the value of archiving grows considerably as it becomes easier to access 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to Sega about how the computer game giant has turned to the cloud to prepare for the Christmas rush. Our latest buyer's guide gives best practice advice on mobile device management. And Unilever tells us how business intelligence and analytics helps to better understand customer needs. Read the issue now. 

Increasing numbers of companies are evaluating a two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy; running separate lower-cost regional solutions for small-tomidsize subsidiaries, despite, in many cases, already rolling out a global ERP system. 

This paper offers ways that companies can establish a strategic advantage in managing change. It suggests a structured approach to managing change amid the complexity of smarter product development in which the rapid evolution of software plays a major part. 

This white paper details best practices for implementing video communication into an organization and highlights a number of companies that have successfully done so. 

This report from Oxford Economics and AT&T shows ICT investment and productivity growth are closely linked - and European countries are lagging behind other parts of the world in both areas. 

A manufacturing firm adopting the principles of lean manufacturing can effectively leverage the company's ERP system during its transition to lean. This E-Book explains what part of the plant you should start with; the importance of simplifying the ERP system; how to balance the ERP system with lean principles; and what pitfalls to avoid.