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Data centers and headquarters have made up approximately 90 percent of the value in many recent asset sales on Wall Street. For example, Lehman Brothers sold its assets to Barclays for US$1.75 billion, 86 percent of which was for the data centers and headquarters alone. The fact is that a company's headquarters generate no revenue, and maintaining them can be a financial drain...

The global financial marketplace has recently become quite volatile, as fears of an American recession affect economies all over the world. Such fears can be especially dangerous for businesses. In times like these, many top managers panic and make unwise decisions such as firing quality employees and slashing important programs ...

Why do your best laid plans often go unfulfilled? You have put the right people in the right jobs, empowered them to achieve, drafted an excellent plan, and got the necessary buy-in and funding. Yet somehow things went into the ditch -- and now the project is late and over budget, delivering a poor return on investment. ...

If you apply for a job with the Austin, Texas-based software firm Journyx, for instance, CEO Curt Finch will most likely spend some time on the Internet finding out what he can about you, including where you went to school, what your political leanings are, who your friends are, if you've run any marathons, and anything else he can lay his eyes on...

When you're making a large investment in software, you want to be sure that you're buying from a reputable company that will be there to support you long-term ...

There are a number of time and billing management applications on the market, CEO Curt Finch noted. "What we are doing differently is providing a version of time management that is tightly focused for the consulting industry." Vertical Strategies...

Imagine a world in the not-too-distant future where anyone can work from anywhere, using whatever communication device they have at their disposal (laptop, iPhone, etc.). This type of world is not hard for us to imagine ...

The spring of 1997 was a significant time for theFood and Drug Administration (FDA). An overhaul of the Agency's Good Manufacturing Processes (GMP) brought changes that had not been seen for a quarter of a century ...

My company sells employee time-tracking software that automates client billing, project accounting and payroll. We have implemented these systems for customers repeatedly where the employees previously were unaccustomed to accounting for their time ...

I've been writing software for a long time ...

When the Internet burst upon the scene in the early 1990s, the concept of software as a service (SaaS) seemed an idea whose time had come. It got hyped along with everything else about the Internet and reached a massive peak of inflated expectations in early 2000, as venture capitalists funded dozens of nearly identical companies that provided various SaaS solutions...

The telecommunications industry is changing rapidly -- as is the Internet -- and they're creating a mutual feedback loop. This feedback loop is virtuous if you're a consumer of such services, but it's terrifying if you're a supplier in these industries ...

Curt Finch is the CEO of Austin, Texas-based Journyx, a provider of Web-based software that tracks time and project accounting solutions to guide customers to per-person, per-project profitability. In 1997, he created the world's first Internet-based timesheet application -- the foundation for the current Journyx product offering...

One of the original leaders of the open source movement, Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, kicked off a blogosphere firestorm in late May by sending a cease-and-desist letter over the use of the term "Web 2.0," as his technical conference is trademarked by that name ...