Stories about: Procter & Gamble

Crowd sourcing is the way of the future even if hiring people from all around the world could jeopardise Australian jobs, an expert said.

It all started, as these things sometimes do, with a chicken.

It is said that the best business leaders know EI is the killer app.

The Procter & Gamble vice president answers questions about training on the cheap and giving input to a nontechnical boss.

How can CIOs use innovation to position IT as a business driver?

When Proctor & Gamble Co., wants something from its outsourcer, Hewlett Packard Co., it doesn't deal with help desks, trouble tickets or support tiers. It gets attention from the top levels of the vendor's executive ranks.

As a core competency for businesses, "supply chain automation" seems like a management directive from the bygone eras of "knowledge management" and "reengineering." It harkens to the days of sending and receiving handwritten orders via fax, to lacking a thorough understanding of the true identities of the suppliers that exist in companies' downstream chains.

Apple has acquired Quattro Wireless, according to an item posted Tuesday on the mobile advertising company's blog.

The recession may have forced Media General Inc. to scale back its grand plans for server virtualization in 2009, but like many other businesses, the communications company is planning a major push to make up lost ground this year.

Most people think of Peter Drucker as a business visionary, and for good reason. Drucker, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated posthumously this month, was a renowned management professor and consultant, retained by some of the biggest and most powerful companies, including General Electric, Procter & Gamble and IBM. He was also a prolific writer, having published 39 books on management and penned a column for The Wall Street Journal for 20 years, in addition to writing for Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic and other leading publications.