Business Management

Day Software Unveils New Integrated Social Collaboration and.
CQ 5.2 breaks new ground with new Social Collaboration (SoCo) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) applications that are seamlessly coupled with Day”s industry-leading Web Content Management (WCM) software. The applications leverage Day”s unified Enterprise Content Management (ECM) content infrastructure platform, CRX. An ECM industry first, Day Software now enables organizations to advance their social media marketing strategies with media-enriched, interactive online communities powered by CQ 5.2.

‘Until now, no ECM or WCM system has provided support for DAM and SoCo, forcing Web development teams to bolt on needed Web 2.0 applications and capabilities as an add on - not a component of the main solution,’ said David Nuescheler, chief technology officer for Day Software. ‘Any time you combine applications that were not designed for integration, the result is an integration and management nightmare, typically leading to higher costs, longer project development cycles, and poor end-user usability.more

No reimbursement for Gustav evacuees.
Officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency say the hotel reimbursement period for Gustav did not begin until Wednesday, Sept. 3, the same day that residents were allowed to return, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Friday.

Many local officials were urging evacuation for Gustav three or four days before Sept. 3.

Thousands of New Orleanians left town through a government-assisted evacuation program that transported people to shelters across the region.

Those who evacuated on their own cannot claim reimbursement for hotel expenses.

‘This is one of a long list of FEMA”s policies that need a full examination,’ says Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. .more

Provincial legislators” support for prudent financial management.
The 18th National Assembly of the Provincial Board Members League of the Philippines affirmed the commitment of our provincial legislators, representing all the 80 provinces in the country, to work hand-in-hand with other local leaders and the national administration in providing basic services to their constituencies and help stimulate the economy amidst difficult global conditions.

In their recent National Assembly, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo called on the provincial legislators to replicate the national government’s austerity measures and pour their savings into programs that would help the poor and provide sustained stimuli to shore up the local and national economy.

The President asked the local government leaders to cut unnecessary spending and enact ordinances on fuel and electricity-saving measures in their communities.more

srp”s hubris needs oversight.
This means SRP places the quest for maximum efficiency above the cardinal rule of risk management, a dictum known as ‘Murphy’s Law.’ This infallible law states that, ‘If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.’

Consequently, risk management dictates that this substation expose the fewest number of people to the minimal amount of risk. SRP’s pursuit of efficiency over risk aversion is misguided, as the following two incidents prove.

Placing efficiency over risk avoidance caused the Air Force to lose six nuclear cruise missiles in 2007. For many years preceding this debacle, nuclear, conventional and practice cruise missiles were stored in three different buildings. This was less efficient, but made the cruise missile mix-up impossible.

Unfortunately, the Air Force decided to seek maximum efficiency by storing all three cruise missile categories in the same building.more

Thales Unveils Encryption Key Management Appliance for Storage.
TEMS supports IEEE P1619.3 and is designed to support OASIS KMIP, along with certain proprietary key management interfaces from leading storage vendors. This eliminates the need for storage professionals to deploy multiple key management systems and gives storage vendors the option to partner with an independent key management provider rather than develop and maintain their own key management systems.

TEMS is available as a ready-to-use appliance that consolidates and automates the management of encryption keys for storage systems in a transparent manner, delivering unified, fine-grained and auditable encryption key security controls. This enables organizations to adopt storage encryption with the confidence that their encryption keys are under control and secured in a cost-effective and future proof management system.more

Management shows sensitivity under duress.
In the aftermath of the horrific accident early Thursday morning that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others, leaving yet another hospitalized with serious injuries, it was understandably overlooked.

But Angels managementhandled the entire situation with a rare sensitivity. From the time pitching coach Mike Butcher and Vice President of Communications Tim Mead rushed to thehospital to be with Adenhart”s distraught father, Jim, to the somber press conference Friday afternoon featuring both Manager Mike Scioscia and General Manager Tony Reagins to the touching pregame ceremony they arranged and conducted Friday night, every move was carefully made with his friends and family in mind.

Quietly, they went even a step beyond that during the game. They escorted Amador Nunez, the Anaheim police officer responsible for catching Andrew Gallo, the driver of the vehicle that caused the crash who tried to flee the scene on foot, to the stadium seats occupied by Adenhart”s parents.more

Let”s hope PGC board on target with changes TOM VENESKY OUTDOORS.
Last season the board changed four Wildlife Management Units to antlered deer only for the first five days of the regular firearms season, with antlerless deer coming in on the first Saturday. I hunted in one of those WMUs and I feel the measure did help to take some pressure off antlerless deer. Certainly there are areas where the antlerless population still needs a break, but that isn’t the only reason why allocations should be reduced.

Simply put, hunting for deer in Pennsylvania has spiraled out of control to a degree and needs to be simplified. In the big picture, there are too many seasons, the seasons combined are too long and there are too many implements – rifles, bows, crossbows, flintlocks, muzzleloaders, that can be used.

For example, someone with an adult hunting license with archery and muzzleloader stamps and an antlerless tag can hunt deer from Oct.more

Southwest posts third consecutive loss.
Management said the coming months would be difficult because in May and June last year the carrier raised fares. This year, the airline cut fares to spur travel.

Southwest, which transports 14 percent of passengers at Philadelphia International Airport, said it would offer voluntary buyouts to nearly all 35,500 employees.

Chief financial officer Laura Wright said there was no set target of how many employees the company hoped would leave. ‘We don”t know how many people will take this offer in this environment,’ she said.

Southwest lost $91 million, or 12 cents a share, in the quarter that ended March 31, compared with a profit of $34 million, or 5 cents a share, a year earlier.

Like other airlines, Southwest has had a sharp slowdown in business travel. Those passengers typically book close to travel time and at higher fares.more

Motorola Introduces Next-Generation Digital Home Management.
An industry-leading service assurance platform, the NBBS remote subscriber device and service management software offers comprehensive, life-cycle management of wired and wireless customer premises equipment (CPE) and other devices, for cable and WiMAX. The unified platform provides a flexible IP-based solution for managing devices from data and digital voice modems to integrated Wi-Fi(R) gateways and video set tops. It is the first open management platform designed to support cable set tops and customer premise equipment (CPE) from a range of manufacturers, and is designed to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction at a low total cost of ownership.

NBBS unifies device management at a time when consumers are expanding both the number and types of data devices in the home.more

IT Management Characteristics of CIO Succession Management.
1 Succession management smooths transitions. Having someone available to step into an important vacancy is a critical measure of the effectiveness of succession management. However, helping that person make the transition in a positive manner with all the necessary skills and knowledge is as important and often more challenging to execute.

2 The right developmental assignments. A successful process includes job assignments that properly prepare candidates for their new positions, rather than taking a sink-or-swim approach.

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