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Ninth Edition
Welcome to Open Minds, which provides you with fresh and useful insights into the key communications challenges facing organisations today. It’s hard to believe that this is edition seven, as editor I would like to thank all of our readers for their continued support and excellent feedback.
If you have any feedback on the articles in this edition of Open Minds, please contact us at editor-open.minds.sen.uk@siemens.com.
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In this edition we ask:
Siemens and Enterasys aim to go toe-to-toe with Cisco in wired and wireless networking through a new joint venture.
The joint venture, established in October 2008, brings together Siemens Enterprise Communications, Enterasys, and SER Solutions. US private equity group Gores and Siemens plan to pump €350m ($478m) into the business. Gores has acquired a 51 percent stake in Siemens Enterprise Communications while Siemens gets a 49 percent interest in the joint venture.
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With global recession set to dominate boardroom decision-making over the year ahead, businesses could be forgiven for allowing environmental concerns to slide down the agenda. Continue reading…
Any business leader with budget responsibility is facing some tough decisions and CIOs are no exception. But businesses still need to make investments to remain competitive. They need to fund projects that support innovation and growth. And now that some of the dust has settled around the economic events of 2008, CIOs are firming up their budgets for 2009. Though they plan to spend less than planned, industry analysts are still forecasting growth in IT spending, albeit smaller from their earlier predictions. Continue reading…