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White House 2.0: Working through tech challenges

It's only been a little over a month since the tech-savvy Obama administration moved in the White House, so it's no surprise that WH staffers might still be experiencing some growing pains on the tech front. Here you have this group of people that were using Twitter,...

Tags: President, Washington, White House, Administration, YouTube Inc., Video, Bureaucracy, Obama, Corporate Communications, Government, Workforce Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Can the U.S. CTO avoid being steamrolled by bureaucracy?

Can the U.S. CTO avoid being steamrolled by bureaucracy?eric schmidt: child pornI hear from rival Mafia that Eric Schmidt owes his success largely to a global network of mobster friends, and that he was directly responsible for the 'obscene amounts of money' made from deliberatly promoting child pornography produced by...

Tags: bureaucracy

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Can the U.S. CTO avoid being steamrolled by bureaucracy?

There has been a lot of chatter about President Elect Barack Obama's plan to name a U.S. chief technology officer and the biggest challenge for anyone who takes the job is this: How do you avoid being consumed by a bulky bureaucratic machine known as the government? ...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, CTO, Bureaucracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Hardware Upgrade, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-09

Signs you might not be IT management material

Signs you might not be IT management materialYou forgot the biggest sign ....... actually wanting to be an IT manager.Lets face it ... if you want to be an IT manager, you really don't have what it takes to be one.Real management material would never "volunteer" for a job that...

Tags: IT administration, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

What people hate most about health insurance

In a public system bureaucracy is just waste. But in a private system, bureaucracy is a profit center. As the debate over health care heats up, this is the point I'll remember most. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Bureaucracy, Carrier, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-23

More open source contributions from bureaucracies, please

More open source contributions from bureaucracies, pleaseAnother motivatorWe use various modified versions of [i]software libre[/i] at $EMPLOYER. One reason to contribute back is, simply, it's cheaper to have your modifications in the main source tree than to have to keep patching private copies as the main tree is updated.Companies...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, bureaucracy, MORE Open Source, software, open source

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

More open source contributions from bureaucracies, please

What might move a bureaucracy to open its vaults and let its open source work roam free? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Bureaucracy, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...

Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?

Britain's national plan to bring order and interoperability to the patient records and operations of the national health service was going to cost about £1.2bn and be an enormous business and political success by early 1998. Ten years later it's widely expected to be a continuing £13bn pound...

Tags: Agency, Health Care, Bureaucracy, StarOffice, Open Source, Advertising & Promotion, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Should software be patented? This site would like the practice stopped

A new website entitled End Software Patents is attempting to galvanize public support to accomplish that goal. Here's the core of their argument: Patents differ from copyright in one key manner: independent invention is a valid defense against claims of copyright...

Tags: Software, Bureaucracy, Software Patent, Tools & Techniques, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-29

What is stalling open source in healthcare?

As you may know, I launched a second ZDNet blog yesterday, on healthcare.In preparing for the launch I wrote a bit about what open source can teach healthcare and about what open source offers.Here I want to ask a related question, namely what is stopping open source in healthcare?Two forces are...

Tags: Strategy, Standards, marketing, management, Infrastructure, identity, Government, General, Development, business models

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Huge new report recommends a new privacy bureaucracy

After seven years, the National Research Council has issued a new 400-page report, entitled "Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age," which calls for a European-style bureaucracy and if you think American bureaucracy is bad you really need to spend some time on the continent to monitor governmental...

Tags: Privacy, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Saving business from itself

Saving business from itselfAfter 15 years in IT consultingI can only say "Amen". In a majority of big companies I work with the biggest problem is frequently dictating the solution. Always wondered if it would be possible to build a company composed entirely of independent contractors flying in...

Tags: Sales strategy, bureaucracy

Discussion threads 2004-06-03

Additional Resources

Dell finalizes $3.9 billion offer for Perot

Dell buys PerotH.Ross and T.Boone should get together and build the NG fueling infrastructure needed to convert semi-tractors off diesel, then build and rent out a parallel power grid so there would be a way to distribute power from wind/tide farms and the excess from micro solar installations. The utilities...

Tags: Perot, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress

humm, I don't think we have all the facts.humm, okay.I'm gonna say that there's probably a lot of details involved, and the EPA probably didn't wake up one day, grow a green heart, and take action just because they turned green one day.And don't look now, but the Democrats aren't...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, energy battle, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Palm's App Catalog submission process is very broken ...

Read Some Kafka, It'll Become ClearMr. Zawinski was doubtless referencing Kafka because Kafka's works, such as [i]The Trial[/i] and [i]The Castle[/i] are well known for dealing with "the worst elements of form filling, bureaucracy and officialdom." There's a lot more to Kafka than just giant cockroaches, and the work "Kafkaesque"...

Tags: Palm Inc., Kafka

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Genachowski unveils 5th and 6th principles: net neutrality and beyond

FCC adding 5th element to net neutralityI pray this will stop Yahoo from telling the do not support LINUX. I do use windows on another CPU--grandson, but primary is UBUNTU. Thanks. An astonishing show of good senseFCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is displaying an astonishing -- I am tempted to say...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, Net Neutrality, Genachowski

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Jobsworths and Box-Wallahs...

We've all been behind the glass in bureaucratic purgatory at some point. Having waited in line at the department of motor vehicles or similar our number finally comes up and we interact with the bureaucrat, who has some issue with your missing some...

Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Wiki, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-13

MSFT presents CodePlex - open source foundation with a commercial twist

Microsoft creates a bureaucracy, Apple takes actionhttp://www.macresearch.org/grand-central-now-open-allNot chit-chat, just making a new, brilliant, multi-core technology open source under the Apache license.Where is the big headline, with the Jesus-Christ pose next to it?Oh, I forgot.MS gets good open source headlines, Apple just gets 33 holes plugged. I guess open source...

Tags: open source, patent, CodePlex, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

The good news about WalMart

The magic of jiu jitsuYou praise what a company reviled by the left is doing. The right rises. Then you point to WalMart's support of true health reform, and pound them with it. How does this help the public option?I don't see it.So you are saying that because of some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-07