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Mark MariottiChief Executive OfficerFuture Management Holdings Inc

Small Businesses Lead In New Job Creation

October 5, 2011

U.S. nonfarm private employment highlights for September 2011 indicate a gain of 91,000 jobs, with 60,000 of those coming from small businesses. It appears the adage of small businesses leading the U.S. job growth stays intact. Why do small businesses continue to flourish with very little assistance ffrom the U.S. government, while the big corporations receive bailouts?

Mark MariottiChief Executive OfficerFuture Management Holdings Inc

Startup America partnership open for business

September 19, 2011

Analysis of:Startup America Partnership | www.startupamericapartnership.org

Young companies can now register to become verified Startup America firms and gain access to resources from more than twenty five leading companies.

Eric GakstatterPrincipalDISCOVERY MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC

Will the FCC rule for LightSquared, the GPS Industry or neither?

August 22, 2011

In January 2011, the FCC granted a conditional waiver for LightSquared, a wireless broadband company, to proceed with rolling out its 4G LTE wireless wholesale business. Recently, LightSquared and the GPS industry exchanged taunts. LightSquared claimed that the GPS industry didn’t follow Department of Defense standards when designing GPS receivers and the GPS industry retorted that LightSquared is an incompatible spectrum neighbor. What happened?

Roberto DolciChief Information Officer & Director Customer CareSYSTEM SPA

HP buy Autonomy: what's next ?

August 19, 2011

Analysis of:HP Plans PC Spinoff, $10 Billion Autonomy Buy | www.cio.com

In a day where most stocks collapsed, HP confirmed rumors it is to dispose of the PC operation and acquire Autonomy at a premium.Autonomy is a well respected provider of semantic and Bayesian based tools to extract useful information from non-structured data, mainly text based.This news suggest semantic search and extraction of intelligence from natural language and pictures/drawings has become hot topic.I can witness the use of such tools for the bottom line.

Roberto DolciChief Information Officer & Director Customer CareSYSTEM SPA

When Smart-phones and IT Consumerization make you happy

August 12, 2011

Analysis of:Future Smartphones: How They Will Look, What They Will Do | www.cio.com

The latest Smart-phones do provide big improvements in users' productivity, making them a useful tool for business people.With screen sizes moving to 4-5" and possibly higher, and qwerty keyboards that can be handled even by adults at normal speeds, the latest products have the gear required.On top of that, the applications to chose from or the ability to create ad hoc ones, make the smart-phone a perfect companion for every professional not sitting at the office.

Mark MariottiChief Executive OfficerFuture Management Holdings Inc

US Banking - Deposits UP & Investment DOWN

August 10, 2011

A clear understanding that depositors have extreme safety (within appropriate FDIC guidelines and limits) and that for investors the caveat "BUYER BEWARE" is more prominent than ever before.

Roberto DolciChief Information Officer & Director Customer CareSYSTEM SPA

When IT projects turn sour: Ingram Micro and SAP implementation in Australia

July 30, 2011

Analysis of:SAP Project Issues Hurt Ingram Micro Profits Again | www.pcworld.com

It is really rare for a company to admit that the bottom line is affected by an IT project gone badly: Ingram Micro have taken this bold step.Naturally public statements are conciliatory and both parties claim the problem is soon going to be solved: yet this is the second quarter Ingram Micro state they are loosing because of the SAP project.What lessons can be learned from this ?

Roberto DolciChief Information Officer & Director Customer CareSYSTEM SPA

CIO: a long overdue critique to offshoring tout court

July 25, 2011

Analysis of:IT Outsourcing: How Offshoring Can Kill Innovation | www.cio.com

Two Harvard Business School Professors, David Pisano and Willy Shih, argue that offshoring IT services can damage the corporation, and use Manufacturing as case in point.In the ICT industry outsourcing and especially offshoring (that is outsourcing to far away low cost countries) have long been pitched as panacea: quite to the contrary.Common sense is now restated by two HBS scholars after extensive research: one should be very careful in selecting the IT service that can be offshored.

Mark MariottiChief Executive OfficerFuture Management Holdings Inc

30 & Out (Shuttle Retires)

July 21, 2011

Analysis of:Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes Historic Final Landing, Ending 30-Year Era | www.huffingtonpost.com

NASA's space shuttle fleet began with its first launch on April 12, 1981 and  retired 30 years later July 21, 2011.I believe that this wonderful program has been a  Boot Strap  which pulls everyone into the future way.

Roberto DolciChief Information Officer & Director Customer CareSYSTEM SPA

Smart Grid 3.0 is growing

July 14, 2011

Analysis of:IBM to develop smart grid test bed in South Korea | www.powerengineeringint.com

IBM takes important steps in gaining leadership positions for the next generation of the Smart Grid.  Competition is heating up fast.Not only is demand for smart grid equipment projected to ramp up from $2.7bln today to circa $4bln in 2020, but especially the possibility of having software, services and naturally network over the grid represent a huge opportunity.

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