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A linux defeat

A linux defeatConverting to a cultureYou've talked about this issue before, but I see it from a slightly different perspective, because of my study of Smalltalk. I've discussed Smalltalk with other people, and seen them reject it because it's too different. What I eventually realized was most of the people...

Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, cultural shift, Smalltalk, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-10-11

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Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23

Facebook pages for schools

People ask me all the time what I think about schools having Facebook, or even MySpace pages. Businesses, after all, use Facebook all the time. So do parents, teachers, and students. Gee wiz, a common medium for communication with all the stakeholders in education? Seems like...

Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-06

5 Strategies to Overcome Mobile Policy Enforcement Roadblocks

This paper discusses 5 key strategies for overcoming the roadblocks to mobile policy enforcement. Culture shift is one of the most overlooked aspects of deploying smart devices in the enterprise. When it comes to taking control of smart devices in the enterprise, culture and resistance to...

Tags: Strategy, Mobile, ProfitLine Inc., Mobility, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-07-30

Sex Positive Socializing Online Arrives

If you're 'textually active' online looking for relationships on social networking and dating sites, finally you have a new option. Despite all the hoopla around the brave new world of Facebook, match.com et al, it's actually the same old industrial scale meat market for most people....

Tags: Facebook, Collaboration, Network, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-14

So about those illegal downloads

PC World posted an interesting article today about the sale of The Pirate Bay. Titled "Pirate Bay Sale Signals the Death of an Era", the article brings up some important potential implications for education in secondary schools as well as for enforcement at colleges and universities. ...

Tags: Software, Music, Michael Scalisi, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?

IBM outlined a vision---and of course a new services unit to go with it---that takes a little time to grok. Big Blue talked about the "information journey," fact-based enterprises and nudging out gut calls in everyday management for decisions based on hard, cold facts. But when you boil it all...

Tags: Algorithm, Fact, Vision, Risk Management, IBM Corp., William Pulleyblank, Game Plan, Engineering, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Clinton has new tech advisor but State-driven projects will remain ineffective

Let me offer this background before discussing the arrival of Alec Ross as a techno-diplomat at State. In 2004, I spent a couple months in Uganda, putting together the Uganda Digital Bookmobile. Inspired by the Internet Archive's Bookmobile Brad deGraf and I obtained funding from the World...

Tags: Education, Advisor, Technology, Clinton, Government, Vertical Industries, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Web 2.0 Expo: Why social media marketing fails

Web 2.0 Expo: Why social media marketing fails"Social Media" the phrase may fail, but....I've said all along that social media draws too much criticism because it's a giant magnet that seems to suck everything remotely related to marketing and communications towards it. We're really seeing Culture X.0 with many...

Tags: social media

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

SOA adoption trends -- what the data tells us

In response to a recent post that talked about corporate success rates with SOA, a reader issued a challenge to show the numbers behind SOA adoption. So, here is a summary of significant surveys -- a recap from previous posts -- on SOA adoption that have been conducted over the...

Tags: SOA, Survey, Loraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?

Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?what is CRM?After reading first two sentences i give up on articleRE: Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?Great post. I really think it doesn't matter whether one vendor is able to provide the complete "CRM 2.0 solution". Similar to closed-loop marketing, the productivity comes,...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-03-06

SAP, CRM 2.0: The Culture Shift Begins

(In the interests of full disclosure, SAP is a client of mine, but the way I found this out was from a Google alert, not from them) Never underestimate the power of the social and business change that we're undergoing. Please. Its big. It affects the way...

Tags: SAP AG, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future

With the rise of online media, from YouTube to Facebook, WordPress to the New York Times, journalism has expanded over the course of the last decade into a new era. "Journalism" may not be guaranteed work all of the time, but it is most certainly in my eyes one of...

Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Microblogging, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-02

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1

We're heading into the forecasting homestretch now. You've seen what I'm thinking 'sup for 2009 with this post, this post, and this post.  Now we move onto the final one or two or three (we'll see how long I can go writing each one before I get tired or sick...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Vision, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sales, CRM, SDN, BPX, Marketing Functionality, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-10

What's driving women out of computer science?

What's driving women out of computer science?Apples and orangesYou start by comparing "all engineering disciplines" from 1984 to present, then look at current trends in CS.This totally misrepresents the fact that [b]current[/b] female enrollment in the other disciplines is also falling.Either compare CS in 1984 to CS today along with...

Tags: Gender and diversity, computer, women, computer science

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Teaching telecommuting

I had to commute this morning. I left the commuting behind about 5 years ago and dread the drive from middle-of-nowhere Massachusetts to Boston. We have a lot more horses than traffic jams out my way, so I've definitely lost my tolerance for traffic. The local troopers...

Tags: Boston, Tool, Telecommuting, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

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

I'm going to my first administrators' meeting!

I guess I have a real job now...no more teaching unless you count teaching teachers, but plenty of meetings. Now that I'm the district's technology director, I get to go to the weekly "Administrators' Meeting" that our superintendent holds. Fortunately, I really like all of the building principals...

Tags: Job, Administrator, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarterWhoa Nellie.....Through the magic of Google alerts I discovered something I said five (count 'em 5) years ago was used to bolster the notion that an ERP implementation SAP specifically was the cause of Levi-Strauss' revenue problems in Q2 2008.I really would have loved...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sarbanes-Oxley, Cultural Change, SAP AG, Levi Strauss, ERP

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

IT departments become Web 2.0 gatekeepers; 41ò0of execs stumped about mashups

IT departments become Web 2.0 gatekeepers; 41ò0of execs stumped about mashupsEnough propaganda and anyone...can be a believer.Enterprise IT is turning into a bloated money pit. Good for the person selling the story, bad for the one buying it.Did someone say IT failures? Expect more. IT departments need to get...

Tags: Channel management, Strategy, Groupware, Enterprise IT, Web 2.0, Web, information technology, accounting system, IT-departments, collaboration, mashup

Discussion threads 2008-07-11