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- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Learn how collaboration will fuel success with this FREE economist report
- The future belongs to those who collaborate effectively, according to "Collaboration: Transforming the Way Business Works," a new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit, available here courtesy of Cisco. This in-depth report, based on extensive surveys and interviews with business leaders, shows that collaboration across departments and among satellite offices,...
- Tags: Collaboration, Economist, Cisco Systems Inc., Satellite, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-01-01
- A look inside 'Gaia Online'
- Gaia Online, a teen-oriented virtual world with 2.5 million monthly participants who engage in more than 100,000 daily transactions, gets a high-profile chief economist. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Economist, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-09-17
- Wandering economist Podcast Feed (widget)
- Does the World of economics leave you feeling dazed and confused? Wandering Economist Podcast Feed is the business news full of names and terms you don't really understand? Let the wandering economist help you out with simple and entertaining audio clips. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Economist, Podcasts, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-07-27
- Chart: World's most 'e-ready' countries
- IBM, British magazine The Economist release their annual "e-readiness rankings" of 68 countries, topped by Denmark.
- Tags: ranking, IBM Corp., Denmark, economist
- Image galleries 2006-04-26
- Chart: World's most 'e-ready' countries
- IBM, British magazine The Economist release their annual "e-readiness rankings" of 68 countries, topped by Denmark.
- Tags: ranking, IBM Corp., Denmark, economist
- Image galleries 2006-04-26
- Quality Manufacturing: A Blockbuster Opportunity for Pharmaceuticals
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing is shedding its "Poor cousin" image and gaining in importance relative to R&D and marketing. Decades of regulatory and industry standard practice in manufacturing are being reworked to help push operating efficiency in pharma closer to other "Normal" industries such as semiconductors, industrial chemicals and even consumer packaged...
- Tags: Economist, Blockbuster Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Manufacturing
- White papers 2005-09-01
- What the boss knows -Misrepresentation and The economist
- Britain's The Economist is one of the most thoughtful and generally intelligent magazines found on the coffee tables in executive areas. My wife and I subscribe to it mainly for the quality of its writing and the breadth of its coverage - and we look to it for information and...
- Tags: Economist, Intel Corp., software
- Blog posts 2005-07-28
- Criteria for Measuring the Financial and Economic Performance of Municipally Owned Broadband Enterprises
- Almost forty years ago economist James Buchanan posed the question: "Under what circumstances will collective-government supply be more efficient than private or noncollective supply?" He said economists must compare "All institutional alternatives in terms of expected benefits and costs, both defined in present values, and both embodying major uncertainties." Consequently,...
- Tags: Financial, Performance, New Jersey, Economist, Broadband, Broadband Internet, Government, Benefits, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Networking
- White papers 2005-06-23
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- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
- Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- MSFT walks away from YHOO: The antitrust connection
- It's interesting that such a large part of Steve Ballmer's letter giving up on the Yahoo deal focused on the antitrust implications of Yahoo's deal with Google. In four separate bullet points, Steve explains Microsoft's "particular concern" over the arrangement: undermining Panama, harming engineer retention, giving Google even greater dominance...
- Tags: Antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?Counter nominationThat's all well and good, but Yochai Benkler (http://www.benkler.org) has actually been doing serious research and publication on [i]software libre[/i]Economists hate each other!It is a joke - no two econmists will ever have the same opinion. It was interesting to read your...
- Tags: open source, Stiglitz
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- IT and the environment; a new item on the CIO's agenda?
- It's difficult to open a newspaper, turn on the TV or browse the internet right now without stumbling across commentary, opinion and argument about all kinds of 'green issues'. The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a major online survey in June and July 2007, supplemented by in-depth interviews with senior IT...
- Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-04-23
- Brijit: Saving the planet, one magazine at a time
- In this age of the digital you'd expect magazines, that old-fashioned idea of putting ink onto paper, to fade away. Magazines seem harder to cure than herpes. Once you get 'em, you can't get rid of them. The multiply, they spread, they just appear. And yet...
- Tags: Magazine, Brijit, Jeremy Brosowsky, Web Site Development, TVs, Web Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- The trouble with Groundswell
- The trouble with GroundswellRealpolitik- Realpolitik (German: real ("realistic", "practical" or "actual") and politik ("politics")) refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions.While there's a place for the 10,000 foot guys - analysts, theorists, high level management, authors - and their ideas are often tremendously...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Groundswell
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates
- Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...
- Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Globalization's roots in the boom 90s
- I've always wanted to read Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat," a book that describes the globalization forces that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century, and in Friedman's mind, constitutes version 3.0 of a globalization wave that will be more intense - and move faster - than...
- Tags: Outsource, Telecommunications, Worker, Computer, Fiber, Thomas L. Friedman, Globalization, Outsourcing, Productivity, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- 13 reasons IT hates metrics
- 13 reasons IT hates metricsYou Missed the Most Important Point...Management likes metrics because numbers on paper or PowerPointless makes it appear that they know what they're talking about, are meeting "goals" and showing "improvement". Unfortunately, IT metrics don't really measure anything meaningful. Take "Lines of Code" for example. On the...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- It's good to be a service worker
- A common complaint among globalization skeptics in rich nations is that, in a global market for products, it makes most sense to do the manual work in lower-income locations. This tends to shift rich nation employment patterns towards the service sector. "Services" is an often misunderstood term,...
- Tags: Worker, Service, Globalization, Government, Strategy, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- PWC On Tech Sector Going Green: Efficiency, Ambivalence and Pretty Pictures
- PwC is to be congratulated at the very least for the aesthetics of their latest report: Going Green: Sustainable Growth Strategies. This is a truly handsome report with pretty brown coloured text interspersed with striking images of wind turbines, sail boats, happy children, adults playing in autumn foliage and even...
- Tags: Sustainability, Technology Sector, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Industry, Strategy, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
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