Coffee
with your peers - audio
Five IT executives chat about the technology,
management and business issues served up at work.
By Julie Bort
Network World, 07/17/00
E-commerce, outsourcing and retaining superstars. These are the issues that make up your day, according to five network executives who took part in a roundtable discussion led by Julie Bort, senior editor with
Network World's Signature Series.
The executives come from various industries, backgrounds and locations. From an established company is Art Krulish, chief information officer at apparel manufacturer Aris Industries in New York. From a dot-com start-up is Brett Thomas, vice president of technology for EMusic.com in Redwood City, Calif. Representing a dot-com spinoff is Don Springer, vice president of Internet strategies for WholePeople.com, a launch of health food retailer Whole Foods Markets in Thorton, Colo. From the financial services industry is Isaac Applbaum, president and CEO at Concorde Solutions, the IS arm of Bank of America in Concord, Calif. Running a government network is Richard Glasberg, director of data communications for Massachusetts in Boston.
Listen to the group wax poetically about management effectiveness, the affect of e-commerce and more. Click on the speaker icon below to listen in.
Management effectiveness
Applbaum, Krulish, Thomas and Glasberg discuss how they measure their management effectiveness.
2:23
E-commerce and you
Springer and Thomas discuss how e-commerce has changed the way they do their jobs.
1:10
In demand
Krulish, Springer and Thomas discuss how increased tech savvy in the workforce has placed greater demands on their and their department's time.
1:59
Budgeting issues
Thomas and Krulish discuss their IT budgets.
0:42
Emerging technology
Applbaum, Krulish and Thomas share their views on the hot technologies that will play a future role in their businesses.
1:59
Open source
Open source's role in corporate IT is discussed by Thomas and Springer.
0:40
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