Eric Lundquist

And now—the most important tech person of 2003…The drumroll will have to continue a bit longer as I explain the wholly unscientific, subjective and arbitrary process behind my selection. In my quest to identify this person, I asked the eWEEK staff, the eWEEK Corporate Partner Advisory Board and an assorted group of friends and acquaintances […]

What is in your information technology portfolio? A good portfolio would have a broad range of services across all your companys business groups. Enhanced e-mail and group software platforms, auditing services, advanced authentication, and electronic financial services all come to mind. You would also have some method of making those services easily available and easy […]

Wal-Mart continues to set the supply chain agenda and may soon set notebook computer and online music pricing levels. Dell has redirected some of its customer support lines from India back to the United States at the instigation of customers. The use of product activation continues to build an activist community that is saying, “Not […]

Comdex, held every November in Las Vegas, has for more than two decades presented an opportunity to take the pulse of the tech industry. It is probably the strongest commentary on the woes the tech business has faced in the past couple of years that it seemed a toss of the dice whether the show […]

Whos in charge here? That question is at the root of the often-strained relationship between vendors and customers. On one side of the chasm of expectations are the technology requirements of customers in fulfilling their business missions; vendors grumble that those needs are too often poorly defined, not completely revealed and promise too little profit […]

The news is good: the economy is growing strongly once again. But does that mean the good old days of IT spending will return? Not if the good old days means throwing tech dollars at lots of projects and hoping one of them works. As in every economic recovery, the winners will be the companies […]

How vast is your IT operation? A better question might be: How simple is it? At a time when vendors, including Microsoft, are once again gearing up for a feature race, theres a good chance those vendors will be fighting the last war instead of the next one. The lesson from the past is not […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Its time to invest in IT to help your companys top-line revenue growth. But dont forget the bottom line. And dont make any mistakes, or you may find yourself outsourced. While those were not the three announced themes of last weeks annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., those issues […]

If youre like most IT pros, your company is running applications that were created well before you arrived on the scene. How much longer will it be before you put those old apps out to pasture? That question came up during a recent panel discussion I moderated in which five CIOs delved into their IT […]

When a mutual fund manager is doing the job, he or she is managing a portfolio of stocks for the good of the funds shareholders. This consists of acquiring stocks with promise, making judgment calls on those that are on the borderline and dumping the dogs. The role of the IT manager is similar. The […]