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- When IT culture changes with or without you
- When IT culture changes with or without youLast paragraph is the punch lineIf the cultural changes aren't in sync with your ethics and higher ups aren't listening, then it's time to hand in the resignation. Otherwise, assuming you can stand it, adapt, positively influence the culture as best you...
- Tags: corporate value, IT culture change, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Why ed tech is like my Honda Pilot
- Why ed tech is like my Honda PilotWell saidYour heart's in the right place. The used Honda ties in well. Corporate culture has bred a throw-away society that I thought your life-cycle road was heading towards. Administrators running on tight-low budgets like those of you in education...
- Tags: corporate culture, desktop, Honda Motor Co., server
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Strategies For Success: When Corporate Cultures Clash
- Too often, mid-sized businesses overlook the effect of corporate culture on the success of enterprise resource planning ERP. This paper highlights important tips for successful ERP implementations and discusses how corporate culture clashes can be avoided when confronted early in the adoption cycle of enterprise applications. This...
- Tags: Strategy, Corporate Culture, ERP, Leadership, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Management, Software
- White papers 2007-10-15
- Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst
- Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalystSoftware specifically designed to catalyze cultural transformationThis is exactly our driver at OpenTeams. We started with the question "how can organizations change to be more innovative, engaging, and entrepreneurial?", then built web-hosted collaborative software designed explicitly to drive that cultural change (with integrated...
- Tags: Groupware, Enterprise 2.0, corporate culture catalyst, collaboration, corporate culture
- Discussion threads 2007-05-07
- Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst
- Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...
- Tags: Wikis, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Tagging, Social Software, Social Computing, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Products, Network Effects, Mashups, Governance, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, ATOM, Architecture of Participation
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- Dunn, Fiorina lash out at HP board
- Dunn, Fiorina lash out at HP boardIT Industry Male-dominated ??Well, THERE is a shocker worthy of a book ...Remember, it's always somebody else's fault.Especially when it's Carlykins telling people nobody has a right to a job.I can just hear it now..."Look what you made me do!"... sound familiar to any...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Remember IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., board, corporate culture, Keyworth, Perkins
- Discussion threads 2006-10-09
- Why tech companies hate the blogosphere
- Apple was in court last week attempting to gain access to blogger records that might unmask who leaked news of "Asteroid," a guitar-computer interface. This quest is part of a larger problem. With some exceptions, technology companies such as Apple and many others detest the blogosphere. Why? It...
- Tags: blogosphere, corporate culture
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- Scobleizing Microsoft's corporate culture
- Scobleizing Microsoft's corporate cultureA culture of bacteria, perhaps...Whatever.Whateverhttp://www.analogstereo.com/renault_clio_owners_manual.htm
- Tags: Leadership, corporate culture, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-02
- Scoble on changing corporate culture one e-mail, post, appearance at a time
- Scoble on changing corporate culture one e-mail, post, appearance at a timeThe corporate world has a culture? Oh, do explain.I thought their "culture" was just about money, their maximium profits regardless of who gets chucked into the piranha tank. Culture pertains to education, art, and intellectualism. And...
- Tags: Leadership, Scoble, corporate culture, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2005-10-02
- Scoble on changing corporate culture one e-mail, post, appearance at a time
- Scoble provides the logic behind his personal note to Ballmer or Gates in response to my post. An excerpt from his post:"I say, let's have a little fun working at Microsoft. And, yes, I am trying to improve our company's position and make sure we're doing our best to...
- Tags: developer, Not-To
- Blog posts 2005-10-02
- Scobleizing Microsoft's corporate culture
- Who says Microsoft's culture has become too bureaucratic? Forget about reorgs and hierarchies. Microsoft's chief blogger Robert Scoble goes directly to the top. Corporate bloggers take note. Scoble had an inspiration or wanted to make a point with his big megaphone about an acquisition that he thought would benefit Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Mergers & Acquisitions, Blogging, corporate culture, Web 2.0, Scoble, Web, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, acquisition
- Blog posts 2005-10-01
- Raytheon Six Sigma: Building a Corporate Culture
- After Raytheon Co. completed a series of mergers, they had to quickly implement a new corporate culture and eliminate duplicate processes while maintaining a focus on the customer. Raytheon produced a customized solution, Raytheon Six Sigma, which integrated knowledge management, cultural development, and successfully included customers and suppliers. Raytheon Six...
- Tags: Raytheon Co., Corporate Culture, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Knowledge Management, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Corporate holiday parties: Is there reason to celebrate?
- In the midst of job cuts, slower sales and declining stock prices, it's hard for the corporate world to put on a smile and celebrate with a holiday party this season. Morale alone may be reason to keep that holiday party scheduled - but be careful to be frugal but...
- Tags: Holiday Party, Recruitment & Selection, Sales Strategy, XML, Food & Beverage, Financial Accounting, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Manufacturing, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?
- The MacArthur Foundation just released a study suggesting that, not surprisingly, given the integration of social media into business and modern culture, the time kids spend with so-called new media, is generally neither wasted nor particularly harmful. In fact, as one of the lead researchers points out in the...
- Tags: Youth, Media, Social Media, MySpace, Barack Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Ed Tech in a recession
- At the beginning of this week, I wrote about why the OLPC makes less sense than ever during a recession. Little green netbooks, though, aren't the only things that will get hit as the global economy tanks even further. Next year, our district is looking at a best...
- Tags: Recession, Hardware, Technology, Teacher, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration
- There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are...
- Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Integration, Morison, Distributed Innovation Group, Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- The history of Windows, from 3.11 to Vista, is one of ad hoc adaptation to market conditions and expectational change among customers. To a large extent it's been about playing catch up to Unix and the Mac - with fascinating devolutions along the way. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: TCP/IP, Application, Client-server, Stored Procedure, Network, PC, Microsoft MS-DOS, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktops, Databases, Networking, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- It's green report card season: Proclamations from IBM, SAP, Toshiba and Xerox
- Some scintillating corporate sustainability reading for your perusal today, folks. In all seriousness, the last few weeks have seen several of the biggest of the big high-tech vendors publish their latest environmental reports or corporate responsibility statements. Here's a list of some of the most recent, along with a brief...
- Tags: Sustainability, Xerox Corp., Card, Corporate Responsibility, Greenhouse Gas, SAP AG, Toshiba Corp., IBM Corp., Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Nokia and IBM announce Lotus Notes Traveler for S60 devices
- One thing I like about current Nokia devices is that they are quite open to supporting a wide range of individual and enterprise needs with services and applications designed to help you out. I enjoy their support of Exchange ActiveSync on my E71 and other devices so I was pleased...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., E-mail, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Virtual worlds: Not so Lively
- Google Labs has killed its virtual world experiment dubbed Lively in a mere five months. What does Google's move say about virtual worlds? While the death of Lively puns are unavoidable Techmeme, I've been pondering the virtual world thing for a few days. On Monday, I was...
- Tags: Virtual World, Avatar, Google Labs, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
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