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Qwest Goes All Out for Its First Full-blown Analyst Meeting since Nacchio

Qwest will host its first full-blown analyst meeting since the days of Joe Nacchio, and the Denver-based company is going all out.

The meeting will be held at the five-star St. Regis Hotel in New York, which boasts a standard room rate of $750 a night. It will be held in the hotel's rooftop ballroom from about lunchtime to 5 p.m.

Up to 200 attendees are expected, including financial and industry analysts and media.

Scheduled speakers include Qwest CEO Ed Mueller and chief financial officer John Richardson.

The last time Qwest held an analyst day was in December 2001 in Denver, said Qwest spokeswoman Diane Reberger.

Nacchio served as CEO from 1997 to June 2002. Under his successor, Dick Notebaert, Qwest held analyst breakfast meetings. Notebaert retired last year.

Exempla sets an example
Santa's elves don't have much on some generous workers at Exempla St. Joseph Hospital. Because of them, kids at Wyman Elementary School are getting new clothes.

Many of the roughly 220 students at the Denver public school live in poverty or are in a single-parent home. In the past, students got public assistance, but limited resources meant some missed out.

When employees at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital heard about the need at Wyman, they quickly organized. Armed with clothing sizes and color preferences, they went shopping to make sure each child had a new outfit.

Some employees "adopted" more than one child. An administrative assistant adopted five. The students were scheduled to receive their new duds last Thursday.

IT staffs sour on hand-helds
The luxury of working from a hand-held computer while on the go may save you time and hassle, but it's giving someone else a headache.

The Computing Technology Industry Association, or CompTIA, says that information technology departments are spending much more time and money supporting personal digital assistants, or PDAs, than any other office technology. In fact, IT professionals have reported investing 30 times more energy and money to support the Blackberry smart phone than laptop computers.

"People want to be mobile, and want the same access in their hand to applications and data that they would have at their desks," said CompTIA spokesman Steven Ostrowski.

"But the Blackberry and similiar devices pose much higher security risks, whether it's misplacing them or not connecting securely. These are things that people don't take into consideration as often with PDAs as they do with computers, and it's become a real challenge that IT departments are wrestling with."

What locates in Vegas stays in Vegas
California and New York are rated by top executives as the worst states to do business in, according to a recent poll of 605 chief executives conducted by Chief Executive magazine. Texas and Nevada were listed as the best two states.

The CEOs were asked to evaluate their states on a broad range of issues, including proximity to resources, regulation, tax policies, education, quality of living and infrastructure. Those same four states were ranked as best and worse for the past three years.

"California and New York are both highly regulated and have high taxes, so CEOs are not very excited about growing business there," said Ed Kopko, CEO and publisher of Chief Executive.

 

Source:
http://www.denverpost.com/telecom/ci_8083345

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