The European bioinformatics industry is competing in a growing market, which is dominated by a few large vendors. Bioinformatics has varied applications in the drug discovery market, including proteomic, genomic and information manipulation applications. Most of the life sciences organisations involved in the process of drug discovery adopt bioinformatics in varying degrees in their routine process. Accordingly, the growth rates in the bioinformatics market are modest yet steady. Read more

Life is a challenge and the sooner we learn to take control of it the better it becomes. Consider the case of a financial crisis or a bankruptcy. What seems like the end of the road may just be a new beginning provided you are ready to take control of the crisis and with the right help move on. Read more

In these highly competitive times of cut throat competition and businesses getting global the key to winning starts within the organization i.e. the human factor. The human factor or the right people can make all the difference to the growth of an organization. The problem is really isn’t easy selecting and retaining competent, committed people. Read more

…and I’m not talking about your eyes!

Larry’s Column

Reprinted with permission from the Greater Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce magazine, “Valparaiso” (Summer 2007 Issue)

When I work with business owners, coaching them to improve their businesses, I want to get a sense of their vision for their company. It’s rare, at the beginning of our relationship that they actually have gone through the thought process to the point where they can articulate their vision for their company. Most business owners have a vision… sort of, but it is kind of like the vision of a person who has cataracts and their vision is foggy, indistinct, and cloudy. Usually the response I get is a mumbled phrase, something about increasing sales or making more money, but I rarely get a well thought out, concise, understandable, articulate picture of what they want their business to become in the future. I’m positive the reason for that mumbled statement is that they have not really conceptualized that important part of their future, or if they have, they have not been able to clarify their vision. So they just give me a quick answer designed to sort of satisfy me and shut me up. But I’m not so easily satisfied and I’m certainly not easy to shut up! Read more

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today VFrame Data Center (VFrame DC), an orchestration platform that leverages network intelligence to provision resources together as virtualized services. This industry-first approach greatly reduces application deployment times, improves overall resource utilization, and offers greater business agility. Further, VFrame DC includes an open API, and easily integrates with third party management applications, as well as best-of-breed server and storage virtualization offerings. Read more

The last date for submitting applications for the Computer Society of India (CSI) and Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2006-07 is August 1. Instituted in 2002, the CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards encourage the spectacular efforts by states and organizations in the implementation and development of indigenously developed practices and software in the area of e-Governance that benefit the common citizen. Read more

As the light microscopes market approaches maturity, the market for electron and scanning probe microscopes appears set to grow at a steady pace. Nanotechnology applications in bioscience and material science research will likely boost demand for microscopic imaging and analysis systems. In addition, a wide spectrum of emerging end-user opportunities in bioscience and genome research, hold promise for future market growth. Read more

Bandhs (civil-unrest), floods, outages, pandemics and acts of terrorism are true risks that cannot be ignored. If your employees were forced to not come to the office tomorrow, how well would your business operations continue to run? How well are you
prepared to respond and continue operations in the face of disruptions… without losing momentum? IBM last week announced that its researchers at India Research Laboratory have developed Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), an innovative framework for building a resilient enterprise. Read more

Larry’s Column

The cellular telephone company Sprint / Nextel recently sent a polite but firm letter to a very small percentage of their customers. The essence of the letter was that, as hard as the company has tried to satisfy those people, they remain unsatisfied so Sprint / Nextel was not going to service them any longer. They fired those customers! Read more

Intel and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) recently announced they have agreed to work together to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world through synergy of their respective programs. Under the agreement, Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving technology and educational content. Intel will also join the board of OLPC.

OLPC is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to bring learning opportunities to the most remote and poorest children of the world by providing connected, low-cost and rugged laptops to each and every child in their daily lives. Read more