Farmer-owned co-operative Ravensdown has introduced a set of online benchmarking and forecasting tools that it says will help farmers make smarter nutrient decisions by showing planned versus actual nutrient investments over time.
A study from Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust, sponsored by Huawei, claims to have shown that fibre broadband services to schools boosts academic achievement by about one percentage point.
Most of you will have read or at least heard about the first quarterly Epitiro/IDC Broadband Index report published a couple of weeks ago by the Commerce Commission. All of us involved in producing it were excited by the level of interest it generated.
The popular new PPW (performance per watt) measure of value for CPUs is snake oil, no matter which vendor’s brochures and billboards hawk it.
Business intelligence (BI) is worth little if it is not applied systematically to improve performance. This is the message from Bearing Point’s Australian CEO, Andy Robertson. He told a Wellington audience last week that BI is morphing into a “corporate performance management [tool]”.