| SCI FI Channel Names Howe President
NEW YORK, January 17: Dave Howe, currently the general manager and executive VP of SCI FI Channel, has been named president of the NBC Universal-owned network. Howe will oversee original development, programming and marketing, global brand strategy and market development, strategic planning, media relations and SCI FIs recently launched public affairs initiative, Visions for Tomorrow. He will also oversee SCI FI Magazine and SCI FI Digital, the division that operates SCIFI.COM, SCI FI Pulse and DVICE.com. Additionally, Howe is tasked with launching a new global brand identity for SCI FI and driving the brands expansion and diversification strategy beyond broadcast and digital media. The company has plans to expand into new areas such as video gaming, mobile, licensing and merchandising and the youth market.
CIOs still excluded from the boardroom
A seat in the boardroom remains elusive for most CIOs as businesses continue to exclude IT chiefs from high-level strategic planning, according to new research. The picture is even bleaker for European companies who lag behind organisations headquartered in north America and Asia-Pacific when it comes to putting an IT executive at the top table. The research, A Missing Competency: Boardroom IT Deficit, by public relations company Burson-Marsteller reviewed Fortune Global 500 organisations to determine those with a technology expert - either a current or former CIO - on their boards. It is the second time the research has been carried out and, compared to the earlier 2003 findings, it showed an increase from five per cent to eight per cent in the number of organisations globally with a CIO on the board.
How a Flattening World Impacts Hoteliers
The hospitality industry's greatest task may be, not using technology to add value to the guest experience, increase revenue and cut costs for owners, but learning to adapt to and leverage change to reshape the industry. (PRWEB) July 18, 2006 -- The recent Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC) in Minneapolis focused hospitality's attention on using technology to add value to the guest experience and to increase revenue while cutting costs for owners. These are familiar goals. They are also very specific to the hospitality industry. A wider view is less obvious but equally vital, and could benefit our industry. Today, society in general is like a bubble floating in a sea of unprecedented cultural, technological and economic change. "How these forces of change are affecting hospitality is impossible to tell right now.
Tom Cruise 1st to Get Ducati Superbike
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. January 29, 2008, 08:44 pm ET · Tom Cruise is the first on the list to get Ducati's newest motorcycle — a $72,500 superbike bristling with titanium, magnesium and carbon fiber technology that can scoot up to 200 mph. Cruise is scheduled to take delivery of the Desmosedici RR at Beverly Hills Ducati this week. Only 1,500 of the red-and-white Moto GP racing replica motorcycles will be made and Cruise gets the first. Michael Lock, chief of Cupertino-based Ducati North America, said the Desmosedici RR "is the impossible dream — made possible." "We are delighted to be able to deliver the world's first production unit here in the USA to Tom Cruise, who is a well-known Ducati enthusiast," Lock said in a statement. ——— On The Net: http://www.ducatiusa.com.
Bush seeks to make amends on New Orleans
Tonight I am pleased to announce that in April we will host this year's North American Summit of Canada, Mexico, and the United States in the great city of New Orleans."
Bush said he would invite the leaders of neighboring Canada and Mexico for their regular "Three Amigos Summit" in the city which has been slow to recover from the August 2005 hurricane, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
In his annual State of the Union speech, Bush also reaffirmed his pledge to help residents rebuild their homes on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and killed about 1,400 people.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and then-Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco criticized Bush for omitting disaster recovery efforts during his 2007 State of the Union speech.
SIMA Launches New Educational Series: SIMA Business Boot Camp
What Surf Summit is to Cabo, SIMA Business Boot Camp is to Orange County. On Thursday, February 28, 2008, SIMA is debuting its new recruit in educational programming - SIMA Business Boot Camp.
February's event, located at Seven Degrees in Laguna Beach, California from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., is the first in a series of seminars to be held regularly throughout the year. The goal of the Business Boot Camps is to allow SIMA members to benefit from intimate seminars on an ongoing basis that aim to provide valuable tips and tools to help their company improve a variety of daily business operations.
This first SIMA Business Boot Camp session will be an all-day event featuring three educational tracks: Track A: Sales and Marketing, Track B: Operations, and Track C: Sourcing and Production.
Big green ideas for the workplace
Last summer I had a vision of life in a world post-climate change catastrophe. It was around midday on July 20. I was sitting on the 5th floor of an office building in London when the sky suddenly and dramatically turned black, as though night had descended. "I'm just waiting for the four horsemen of the apocalypse to come riding over the rooftops," quipped one colleague, as the brooding clouds seemed to darken still further. And then the heavens opened, dumping two month's rain in just a few hours, leading to the worst flooding in years. Whether last summer's floods had anything to do with global warming is far from certain, but as the torrents rained down on that day last July, what did we all do? We went back to our desks and carried on working.
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