In this podcast, Mark Halverson, managing director of Accenture's wealth and asset management service line, spoke with Wall Street & Technology on the need for technology in wealth advisor services. In today's changing financial landscape, advisors need the right technologies-a distinctive capability of high-performance businesses-to create a multichannel experience for clients.

The proliferation of disruptive technologies, heightened sensitivity to privacy issues, a background of cyber threats, and stronger regulations have raised the bar for information security. It's time for security functions to evolve from tactical firefighter to strategic business enabler. Enterprises of all types need to take a step back, understand where their information assets are, understand how to value them, how they need to protect them, what various constituencies they need to account for and take a circumspect view of security programs.

It's been said that if something can't be measured, it doesn't count. After two decades of rapid growth and extraordinary innovation, the internet no longer falls into that category. In a recent interview, McKinsey Partner Eric Hazan and McKinsey Global Institute senior fellow Michael Chui discuss new research from the McKinsey Global Institute that shines a little light on how much the internet contributes to global GDP, as well as who benefits, why it matters, and what can be done to nurture it.

Declaraciones de Edgar Sánchez autor del último informe elaborado por el Strategic Research Center de EAE Business School: El Comercio Electrónico en España, el trabajo ha sido dirigido por Edgar Sánchez, profesor de EAE con la colaboración de Mariola Rodríguez, investigadora del Strategic Research Center y alumna del Programa en Dirección y Gestión de Empresas. El informe analiza internet como canal de compra, el tipo de productos y servicios que se adquieren a través de la web, el perfil del comprador o los frenos de compra por internet de los españoles.

There is a growing sense that Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology now offers a significant opportunity for operators to grow revenues through service innovation and diversification. M2M has been around for some time, and some companies have been employing a form of M2M operation for over a decade. It is only now, however, that the concept is really starting to permeate the mainstream mobile operators' psyche. Key variables, such as technological advances in mobile, supply-chain maturity and the need for operators to offset declining voice revenues in the Person-to-Person (P2P) space are spurring interest. Regulation will undoubtedly play a part in defining the market too over the next five years, but the revenue-generating opportunity that M2M represents is now too great for operators to ignore. The fact that some tier one mobile operators are already cranking up their investment in this market testifies to this.

Television, gaming, the music industry, and social media are among the topics covered in the 2011 Media Predictions. Ed Shedd and Duncan Stewart provide a high-level overview of those trends and look back at the last ten years of Predictions.

Variety is key in the technology sector for the coming year. Deloitte predicts that people will use a diverse array of devices at home and at work. Learn more in this podcast with Eric Openshaw and Paul Lee.

Tablet computers have taken the consumer world by storm but Deloitte predicts that more than a quarter of those sold in 2011 will be bought by enterprises. Companies in the retail, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors will buy tens of millions of tablets for their staffs to leverage the ease of use and longer battery life of the devices. However, many analysts expect the tablet market to remain almost entirely consumer for the foreseeable future. Learn more in this podcast.

The launch of this report marks the culmination of a year-long review on the results of Spain's comprehensive strategy for ICT and Information Society policy. Plan Avanza has created a large-scale information society agenda addressing the need for international and inter-regional convergence in ICT access and use, and greater integration of citizens, businesses and the public administration into the information society.

Mercer's Kim Seals joins HRadio to discuss the value of technology and how technical innovation can help organizations manage talent and meet both people goals and business goals.

Here is the second video podcast in the "Find Your Popcorn" series, part of a new approach to our research processes. So to hear me talk about how gaming sites' promotion of virtual goods (paid for with real currency) could help other companies build new revenue streams, please click on the video link below

In the 100th Digital Business podcast, we talk to Lord Digby Jones about how he runs his business from a virtual office. Plus: fake websites, mobile business apps, a company chairman who tests mobile devices in a dishwasher - and using mobile phones.

En lo que al sector tecnológico se refiere, los últimos diez años han sido la historia de tres compañías (Microsoft, Apple y Google) y de una poderosa idea (la red social). En la última década la gente se conectó, compró un iPod y buscó a sus amigos en Facebook.

Hace unos días, Josep Curto, del blog Information Management, publicó un video interesante de Introducción al Business Intelligence, que realizó en colaboración con la UOC.

When and where does Gartner see growth returning? It's the question on everyone's mind and in this podcast, analyst Laura McLellan talks about the type of growth - geographically and vertically - we can expect in all regions of the globe supported by Gartner forecasts.

This year's Web 2.0 Summit, an annual technology conference in San Francisco, featured a reception at a swanky hotel dubbed  Web After Dark. The event was packed with euphoric entrepreneurs toasting their grand plans. Conference veterans noted the contrast with the previous year's summit, which many attendees spent drowning their sorrows as the world economy sank into chaos.

Paul Buchheit, developer of Gmail and founder of FriendFeed, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the evolution of the Gmail project, how innovation works and doesn't work in a large corporation, how Google has changed as it has grown, and corporate culture generally. The conversation then turns to social networking and what might be coming next. The discussion concludes with Buchheit's observations on Silicon Valley and the power of failure.

2009 is the 40th anniversary of the first computer network - the precursor of the internet - and the 20th anniversary of the brilliant idea that led to the creation of the world wide web. What exactly is the internet, and how does it differ from the world wide web? Who were its pioneers, and what technological surprises has it sprung?

Caso práctico interactivo sobre una empresa española de ERP que ofrece su software bajo licencia Open Source. El caso analiza la situación de la empresa antes de su unión con otro importante grupo inversor, lo que provocaría un giro importante en su estrategia empresarial

El siguiente video, procedente de Microsoft, no deja de ser una visión muy interesante y con mucho humor e ironía de lo que la compañía lleva haciendo en los últimos años en el campo de la BI. 

Los bancos se convertirán en empresas telefónicas y las empresas telefónicas se convertirán en bancos. Sistemas de pago móviles, micropagos, transacciones por teléfono móvil, transacciones con tarjeta de crédito y préstamos... Además, habrá un enorme impacto económico derivado las remesas de los trabajadores extranjeros mediante SMS de crédito para evitar los costes de la transacción de divisas.

Según manifiesta Ed Thompson, analista de Gartner, la próxima generación de empresarios utilizará las herramientas de Networking Social en su vida diaria y se espera que la siguiente generación de consumidores utilice esta herramienta para la gestión de sus contactos de negocio en el ámbito empresarial.