The Recovery: What Every Executive Should Know

INFORMATION INDEPTH NEWSLETTERS Executive Strategy Weekly Edition February 3, 2010

SPECIAL REPORT Getting Ready for the Recovery “The consensus seems to be that the U.S. economy will recover in 2010, but not all sectors of the economy will recover at the same pace,” says KPMG National Managing Partner Lynne Doughtie. She is basing her statement on a poll KPMG recently conducted with 400 C-level executives on the state of the U.S. economy, and its prospects for recovery. “While three-fourths of all executives we surveyed were confident that business would be better a year from now, technology executives were the most confident. Sixty-six percent of those surveyed believed that the tech sector would lead the recovery, compared to just 29 percent who believed that the financial services industry would jumpstart growth.” In this special report, you'll get more insight about the recovery from experts like Doughtie, including quick wins that will help you get the most from the upturn. More.... NEWS Oracle + Sun Welcome Events Near You These informative sessions will explore Oracle's plans to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems – from applications to disk – that improve performance, reliability and manageability so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable and more secure. More... Can an Oracle On Demand Solution Save You Money? As companies today demand greater responsiveness to business priorities while reducing IT costs, Oracle On Demand is helping with solutions that can transform IT performance Use this 15 minute online assessment to analyze your IT strategy. More... White Paper: Transform the Economics of Retailing (PDF) Technology has provided the tools and means for retailers to deliver the best service and experience to consumers. Now technology vendors must bring those tools to the next level by creating simple, intuitive interfaces to help every user easily achieve the outcomes the software was designed to produce.  More... TWEET OF THE WEEK From @Oraclepartners Listen in as Judson Althoff recaps the Oracle + Sun Strategy Event Follow Profit Online on Twitter. WEBCAST Oracle + Sun: Transforming the IT Industry In a live event on Jan. 27, 2010, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, along with executives from Oracle and Sun, outlined the strategy for the combined companies. Watch a replay now! OPINION Building Your 2.0 Toolkit Andrew McAfee explains what every executive should know before investing in today's technology: "It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that before too long it's going to become completely irrelevant what screen we are sitting in front of, what device we're using, or where we are in the world." More... THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Five Ideas: Sun “Well, it took awhile, but Oracle and Sun are now one company. We are very proud of that, we are very excited... We are excited to be in all these new businesses with these fantastic people from Sun combining with the people and the technologies from Oracle. We think we'll be very competitive in delivering complete business systems to our customers." — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Read more about Sun on Profit Online.

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