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How Maury Myers and Tom Smith plan to clean up Waste Management.
When CEO A. Maurice "Maury" Myers and Senior Vice President of IT Tom Smith arrived at Waste Management in November 1999, they knew they wanted to transform the strategy of the company from one focused on acquisition and rollouts to one centered on operational excellence. In order to inculcate discipline and accountability throughout the company, the turnaround team outlined four initiatives early on for the ailing company. Here's how they're progressing as of the middle of 2001.
ERP
Myers and Smith plan to launch PeopleSoft financial, HR and customer information systems companywide. More than 400 of Waste Management's districts were up and running on the PeopleSoft financial systems as of July 2001, and the company plans to convert all 1,500 districts by the end of the year.
Supply Chain
Myers and Smith are attempting to leverage Waste Management's size and its US$4 billion annual procurement budget (everything from trucks to paper clips to travel services) by consolidating purchases, paring down suppliers and taking all procurement online. The company expects procurement savings of US$75 million by the end of 2001 and eventually US$400 million annually after a few years.
CRM
The goal is to make Waste Management a true "service machine" by creating enterprisewide rules and standards for customer relations. Three service machine program pilots were running in June 2001, from which the company will build a blueprint for the companywide rollout later in 2001. Each business unit will then have a template for customer setup, on-time service requirements and customer-handling protocols.
Overall Market Strategy
The plan is to adjust pricing based on location and competition, and maintain the focus on the strongest core North American business units, leveraging locations in which the company owns collection, transfer station and disposal businesses in order to make the company more profitable. Waste Management has already sold its overseas assets and has raised some landfill prices. The company expects US$75 million in benefits from this initiative in the second half of 2001.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Data-center security tools to not overlook 10 October, 2008 11:37:00
With the rise of security suites, it's time to consider some emerging security tools and rethink othersProtecting a corporate data center is like trying to keep an elephant safe from a swarm of flies. Despite your best efforts, bites happen. As the staples of security -- such as firewalls, antivirus software, spam and spyware filters -- come together in suites of products that allow for sophisticated management, there are other security tools either emerging or worth a rethink. - +
IBM, Secret Service, others study identity/cybercrime issues 09 October, 2008 10:09:00
Center for Applied Identity Management Research organization teams experts in criminal justice, financial crime, biometrics, cybercrime and cyberdefense, data protection, homeland security and national defense.IBM, LexisNexis and the Secret Service are among a group of corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that has formed to study and help solve identity management challenges around cybercrime, terrorism and narcotics trafficking. - +
Strange account management at Amazon 09 October, 2008 09:51:00
A careless login led to the discovery of some strange ccount management practices at one of the Internet's largest retailers.Via the RISKS mailing list comes an interesting tale of poor online account management at a major online retailer. According to Graham Bennett, accounts with Amazon display an odd behaviour that doesn't seem to have attracted much attention in the past. - +
Cambridge lab sets quantum key world record 09 October, 2008 07:51:00
Researchers can now shift encryption keys around at speeds of 1Mbps.The hugely promising security technology of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) has moved an important step closer to commercialization with the announcement by UK-based researchers that they can now shift encryption keys around at speeds of 1Mbps. - +
Palin hacking charge flawed, lawyers say 09 October, 2008 07:28:00
Case considered a misdemeanor offence not a felony.David Kernell is facing five years in prison for allegedly hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, but lawyers watching the case say that the felony charge against him is a bit of a stretch.
F-Secure achieves excellent results in Internet security suite comparison 10 October, 2008 14:37:00
Lock It Up With Maxtor BlackArmour, Hardware Encrypted Storage Provides Government Grade Security For Consumers 10 October, 2008 09:04:00
Pitney Bowes MapInfo Launches New Version of AnySite 10 October, 2008 05:58:00
IOGEAR Gears Up in Australia 09 October, 2008 20:18:00
Internet Service Providers offer new unlimited Online Backup from F-Secure 09 October, 2008 19:42:00
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Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren't Telling You About
Web 2.0 applications are all the rage, offering us tremendous value when it comes to collaboration and communication. They also open us up to new kinds of attacks however, and can cause problems in keeping systems and data secure. Read on to learn about the new attack methods and how you can defend yourself and your business.
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