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A Methodology for Constructing Collective Causal Maps

A causal map is an essential tool for both managers and researchers in the field of operations management. In the operations management practitioner literature, causal maps are known by many names, including Ishikawa fishbone diagrams, impact wheels, issue trees, strategy maps, risk assessment mapping tools, and cause and effect diagrams....

Tags: Theory, University Of Minnesota, Operations Management, Tool, Collective Causal Mapping Methodology, Productivity, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-11-15

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Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...

Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Cisco SONA

Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...

Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Why Agile development matters [podcast]

Why Agile development matters [podcast]Agile Development beyond ITMichael -- happy to see your talking about this topic the very same day as me: http://tinyurl.com/3shth7. What strikes me is so many people think this is strictly an IT topic when the more sophisticated business users are expecting and wanting exactly the...

Tags: Podcasts, Strategy, podcast, Agile Development, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

A question about web server volume failures

A question about web server volume failuresWrite heavy loadI don't think you can compare a write-heavy do-not-call registry to a mostly static wordpress site.It wouldn't hard to mock-up a simple registry site and test it.The question you seem to be askig is.. how do i make my site scalable.Lets start...

Tags: Web servers, Firewalls, Storage, Web server, server, database, router, firewall, Web

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed

The top five reasons why Windows Vista failedSimpleDo you really think that MS decided to do that on its own? Would that really make sense for them to make it alot more complicated? MS did not want to do that, their own emails to each other prove that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp., top-five, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Google releases Chrome 0.3.154

Google releases Chrome 0.3.154Anyone else tired of version 0.0.0.0.1?I've had it with companies that "release" software with version numbers of less than 1.If you are doing a limited beta of a few thousand users, a version number of less than 1 is maybe understandable.Once you release something to the general...

Tags: Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome 0.3.154

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Panda Internet Security 2009 (exe)

Panda Internet Security 2009 protects you from viruses, spyware, rootkits, hackers, online fraud, identity theft and all other Internet threats. Thanks to the new Collective Intelligence Technology, the solution is now much faster than previous versions. You will also have at your disposal Tech Support 24h-365d, 24h-SOS service and the...

Tags: Anti-spam, Collective Intelligence, Panda Security, Panda Internet Security 2009, Rootkits, Identity Theft, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spam And Phishing

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Panda Global Protection 2009 (exe)

Panda Global Protection 2009 protects you from viruses, spyware, rootkits, hackers, online fraud, identity theft and all other Internet threats. Thanks to the new Collective Intelligence Technology, the solution is now much faster than previous versions. You will also have at your disposal Tech Support 24h-365d, 24h-SOS service and the...

Tags: Protection, Threat, Panda Security, Panda Global Protection 2009, Rootkits, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Internet, Litigation, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Microsoft steps up online search R&D in Europe

Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe. LONDON--Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe, it...

Tags: Google Inc., R&D, Europe, Internet Search, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Reuters, search, Microsoft, Google

News items 2008-10-02

House servers suffering from financial bail-out

House servers suffering from financial bail-outsimple solutionThe Congress must replace those servers with Linux boxes that can handle the trafic, so the people can communicate and the lawmakers can listen and fix the economy.Everebody wins in this scenario and there will be no need for $700 billion bailout.Linux will...

Tags: Linux, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, server, U.S. Congress, financial

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakes

Socialtext, a company looking to take social networking to the enterprise, has launched its Socialtext 3.0, a suite of social networking applications complete with a wiki and dashboard to manage relationships. Technically, Socialtext 3.0 consists of People, the social networking app; Workspace, the wiki; and Dashboard, which...

Tags: Socialtext, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Top 50 US ad carriers in August 2008

Rank Property Audience, 000 Reach %   Total Internet : Total Audience 188,937 100% 1 Platform-A 170,728 90% 2 Google Ad Network 156,415 83% 3 Yahoo! Network 156,212 83% 4 Specific Media 152,501 81% 5 ValueClick Networks 150,813...

Tags: Advertisement, Media, Carrier, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Should our President be computer literate?

Should our President be computer literate?The man with the BlackBerry gets my voteAlthough I fundamentally agree with you that being the leader of the free world is a bit more important that being able to check email and certainly requires a much broader range of qualifications, I have to say...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, aircraft

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessories

One of my Irregular chums started a GoogleGroup thread about what you need in a job that requires you work from a home office. The same can be said for the 1-3 person startup. The conversation immediately became a discussion of the merits or otherwise of different coffee making facilities...

Tags: Dr., Beverage, Accessory, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Neocleus secure access

Neocleus secure accessNeocleus is not secureNeocleus security architecture is flawed at its basic level. The architecture uses a software mechanism to provide direct physical device assignment to virtual machines, such as graphics cards and wireless networks. It does not support hardware based direct I/O assignment or hardware based...

Tags: desktop virtualization, SECURITY, Neocleus, virtual machine, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool (zip)

The Managed Switch Port Mapping tool is a program that communicates with a managed Internet switch via SNMPv1/v2c and maps the physical port connections to MAC and IP addresses of the attached devices. Shows VLAN assignment, port status, speed, duplex, bytes in/out, connected device interface manufacturer. Spreadsheet format results can...

Tags: Tool, Northwest Performance Software, Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool, Productivity, LANs, Internet, Networking

Software downloads 2008-09-25

ENUMresolver (zip)

A freeware program designed to query your default DNS for the ENUM NAPTR mapping between a telephone number and a SIP, H323, IAX2, or other URI. Use with VOIP systems to check your e.164 or freenum or other mappings. This program queries each default DNS assigned to your system using...

Tags: Phone, DNS, Northwest Performance Software, Domain Names, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2008-09-25

Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users

In what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O'Reilly's BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain text for 205 of the site's members already leaking across Internet forums, as a response to his remarks regarding Wikileaks as a...

Tags: Web, Password, Attacker, Web Site, Member, BillOreilly.com, Wikileaks, E-mail, Web Site Development, Security, Online Communications, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-24