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Publicly, anyway, Nintendo executives don't appear to be fretting over an oversupply of Wiis. But they're not 100 percent sure of themselves, either. Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime told Fortune in early October that while the videogame industry has historically "weathered recessionary times fairly well, if we get into unchartered territories with stocks coming severely down and unemployment spikes, then all bets are off."
Experts weigh in on how Nintendo and others will cope with the unpredictability of the 2008 holiday shopping season."
Forbes states that Mr. Ellison is worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $27 billion, which is a pretty nice neighborhood. Mr. Burns checked in at No. 6 on the Forbes Fictional 15 list, with a net worth of $8.4 billion. Mr. Burns, at 104 years old, nearly doubles Mr. Ellison's age, however.
Will Ellison now try to block out the sun, too?"
"Personally, it is surprising to me that most of the developers that I work with still have no sense of the user experience," says one IT director. "A development team can create an application that does everything from balance your checkbook to burning your toast, but if the user interface sucks, no one will use it — period.
What else do these CIOs say? Developers don't think practically, can't get away from the "wow" factor, and don't think about ROI, TCO and other business priorities."
"Had to climb on my mother's roof once. It was so fun. I actually saw a naked neighbor girl."
""I went up to the top of a mountain and worked for a week from a tent."
For many years, IT was not seen as a strategic enabler to CIA's success, say CIA employees. Spies in the field didn't think they needed IT, and the analysts trying to make sense of the spies' intelligence had to get by with antiquated data-management systems. Technology was "a threat, not a benefit," noted one CIA researcher in 2002. And "cylinders of excellence"—meaning data silos—were ever-present.
Will the IT changes help the controversial agency collaborate better with its 15 intelligence agency peers? That file's still open."
"If you really have your heart set on something and go about it the right way—setting out from day one and sticking to it over and over again and making it worth the vendor's while to give you those concessions at the end—then you can get some valuable contractual concessions," says Forrester' Duncan Jones, the analyst who wrote a report on the bank's winning negotiation strategies.
"E-mails with the purported mock-up started making the rounds in 2004. The image is doctored more times than Michael Jackson's nose.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
