Stories about: Pronto

In today's fast-paced business world, proper project planning can often take a backseat to other objectives. Employees are asked to leap into the project before the scope or Work Breakdown Structure is even defined. Does this scenario sound familiar? Your frazzled boss comes running into the room with a hot new project that needs to be completed ASAP. He tells you that there is no time to waste on discussing the project and wants you to get to work on it pronto. Essentially he is asking you to skip the most critical phase of the project--planning.

The future of wireless is a topic of major concern to the British government, which would like to coordinate with the United States as much as possible in terms of technologies, standards and regulation, says an official from the British consulate, which had its own booth at NetWorld+Interop 2003.

If your company's stock is heading south, if profits have vanished and systems are sunk, who you gonna call? At Waste Management, they called Maury Myers and Tom Smith, and now they're glad they did.

One in three Australian companies last year suffered some form of computer abuse, one in five lost or had their data changed, and for almost one in 20 the attack cost them more than $100,000. A new survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the Victorian Computer Crime Squad, released in February, found also that organised data attacks are on the rise, leaving little room for corporate complacency.