Managing Technology


Recent Managing Technology Articles

Optimizing Your Electronic Organizer

Jan 1, 1998

The right personal information manager (PIM) is an invaluable tool. The computerized datebooks, to-do lists, telephone directories and memo records can be...  Read more

Laptop Tips from the LAPD

Jan 1, 1998

Some estimates put the number of laptops stolen each year at more than 200,000, and that number doesn't include thefts that go unreported. In fact, busine...  Read more

Scan Every File

Jan 1, 1998

Robert Slade, author and computer virus expert, explains what viruses are and how to beat them: A virus is any program that reprod...  Read more

Respect the Net's Power

Jan 1, 1998

The Internet might be the cornerstone of your company's marketing strategy, or it might facilitate communications among employees spread across the countr...  Read more

Choose the Right Network for Your Company, Computers and Networks Article

Jan 1, 1998

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Wide-Open Spaces

Jan 1, 1998

At AGI's Melrose Park, Ill., headquarters, there are no traditional private offices. Instead, workers at the packaging manufacturer operate in an open env...  Read more

Don't Erase This Board

Jan 1, 1998

As a patent attorney for the Boston law firm of Banner & Witcoff, Charlie Call spent hours in meetings watching his clients scribble technical mumbo-jumbo...  Read more

Douse Flamers Online

Jan 1, 1998

You can go online to combat negative publicity about your company or products: Act immediately. You may be able to keep a few...  Read more

Climb onto the Web, Painlessly

Jan 1, 1998

An electronic mailing list delivers information around the world instantaneously, and its cost is a tiny fraction of paper direct mail. It's also an effec...  Read more

LAN Preserves the Personal Touch

Jan 1, 1998

A computer network can elevate your small company to a higher level, endowing it with the sophisticated information management capabilities of the big guy...  Read more

Gamma Tester

Jan 1, 1998

Given the fast pace of business, a salesperson needs every edge possible when it comes to personal productivity. Take a genuine gadget guy like Steve Ettr...  Read more

Loaded Messages

Jan 1, 1998

Great news: Personal communication tools--pagers, cell phones, and voice mail--are speeding up selling cycles for many small businesses. Not-so-great news...  Read more

Show Time

Jan 1, 1998

David Harris, president of Harris Group, in Kingsport, Tenn., has been adventurous about technology since high tech meant calculators and overhead project...  Read more

Do-It-Yourself Efficiency Expert

Jan 1, 1998

Karen Settle, president of Keystone Marketing Specialists, in Las Vegas, has mastered multitasking. Keystone, a $5-million company, provides employee comp...  Read more

Battling E-mail Excess

Jan 1, 1998

The push-button ease of e-mail and the never-out-of-touch capabilities of a pager-cellular phone combo have many CEOs wondering how they managed without t...  Read more

Is E-mail Private? Not at Work

Jan 1, 1998

Is employees' E-mail protected by privacy laws? Recent controversial court rulings have generated confusion on the matter. Lee Gesmer, partner in the Bost...  Read more

" Focus, Baby, Focus"

Jan 1, 1998

Focus groups are a great way to get closer to your customers--to solidify your relationship with current customers and to forge relationships with new one...  Read more

If You Build It, They Will Come

Jan 1, 1998

Time and again, companies report that once a database is up and running, sales grow at least 10% to 30% as a result. But you can't exactly create one at t...  Read more

Correspondence School

Jan 1, 1998

Salespeople have always been notorious telephone addicts. Now they are getting hooked on E-mail, too. While E-mail is wonderful for keeping clients posted...  Read more

Smarter Network Setup Stops Surges

Jan 1, 1998

Sheila Skolnick thought she had plenty of protection. Surge protection, that is. The owner of Elite Companies, an $18-million hotel-supplies company in Se...  Read more

Update Your Virus-Protection Software

Jan 1, 1998

For years now, Alex Haddox, of the Symantec Antivirus Research Center, in Santa Monica, Calif., has studied the devastating effect of boot-sector viruses....  Read more

Protect Your Computers: It's Worth the Price

Jan 1, 1998

Computer security isn't always expensive. Break-ins usually are. Simson Garfinkel, author of Practical UNIX and Internet Security (O'Reilly, 800-...  Read more

" Face-to-Face, Almost"

Jan 1, 1998

Do your salespeople hop on and off airplanes as much as most people get in and out of bed? Videoconferencing may be the answer to your sales expense-accou...  Read more

Safe Passage

By Alan Joch |  Dec 15, 1997

How to make financial transactions secure on your Web site. A look at the technology, registering with certification authorities, and digital cash as an alte...  Read more

Data Duty

By Dan Caulfield |  Dec 15, 1997

The founder of Hire Quality recounts how he turned his business around by learning to manage information instead of people.  Read more

Have It Your Way

By Sarah Schafer |  Dec 15, 1997

Mass customization is a popular trend in the business-to-business arena. Read how manufacturing and communications technology have allowed small companies to...  Read more

Tales from the Encrypt

By Gerard J. Holzmann |  Dec 15, 1997

Safeguarding computer information from unprivileged eyes isn't a new concept. Encryption devices were invented by the Ancient Greeks and Thomas Jefferson.  Read more

Adventures in Never NeverLost Land

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Dec 15, 1997

Inc.'s Road Warrior abandons maps in favor of the NeverLost global positioning system available in Hertz rental cars.  Read more

Zero Zero Hour

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 15, 1997

The year 2000 bug will affect your computers no matter how small your business is. A look at some methods for testing your systems and the costs you can expe...  Read more

Joined at the Chip

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 15, 1997

Everyone's computers may be affected by the Millennium Bug, from corporate giants to small businesses. Here are some tips for protecting your company from a ...  Read more

Case Studies

By Emily Esterson |  Dec 15, 1997

Laptop schleppers are a demanding lot. While Silicon Valley engineers rack their brains to create a better, faster mobile computer, their customers are mo...  Read more

Outer Resources

By Anne Field |  Dec 15, 1997

A look at two companies, Air Taser and CFData, that became successful largely because they outsourced the technology-intensive aspects of their businesses.  Read more

Uneasy Rider

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 15, 1997

John Healy, CEO of Coventry Spares Ltd., realized that the year 2000 bug would paralyze his antiquated computer system. Here's how he brought his motorcycle-...  Read more

Network

By Inc. staff |  Dec 15, 1997

Inc. Technology readers react to past articles, including Leigh Buchanan's, "Tick...tick...," John Grossmann's "Efficiency Experts," and Jeff Seglin's "Where...  Read more

Surfer's Paradise

By Russ Baker |  Nov 1, 1997

A beginner's guide to using the Internet. Includes tips for finding useful information, definitions to common terms, and suggested sites.  Read more