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- Collaborating on Cost Savings: A Scalable Software Whitepaper
- It should surely therefore come as no surprise to anyone that IT executives are unlikely to own up to years of unnecessary expenditure, indeed it is more likely that they deny it and thus perpetuate it, if they feel to confess now would put them at the front of the...
- Tags: Firing, Information Technology, Cost Savings, Scalable Software, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-11-11
- 18 truths: The long fail of complexity
- Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...
- Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences
- Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...
- Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Intelligent Office Increases IT Efficiencies With Help of Small Business Server 2008
- Intelligent Office is a virtual office solutions provider with seven locations across Ontario, and plans for growth across Canada. The company provides entrepreneurs and businesses with executive office space and services such as professional phone answering and receptionist services. With an eye on sustainable business growth, Intelligent Office wanted to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Office Suites
- Case studies 2009-10-14
- Uncle Sam: less wasteful?
- President Obama has just solidified his lasting credentials...as being hopeful. He actually is trying to push energy efficiency inside the federal government, America's largest energy consumer. Solar Humvees in Iraq? Fewer limos with their motors running at Dulles Airport? Shut down Washington D.C. in August and...
- Tags: President, Barack Obama, Real Estate, Construction, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute
- Cap and TAX dramatically increases green house gassesGood for the chamber of commerce to have their eyes open. All this energy tax legislation does is move energy consuming manufacturing off shore to countries where the production of that energy is dramatically more pollution producing. Apple needs to pull it's head...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Obama, manufacturing
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA
- Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Intel's Maloney: Enhanced technology can address demands of new data center
- At the afternoon keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, Executive VP Sean Maloney took some time to talk about what Intel is doing to address the needs of the enterprise and the changing data center. The reality, he said, is that the data center is undergoing a...
- Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Slot Machine, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Using green IT to meet corporate sustainability goals. Deloitte offers tips in Webinar.
- Wondering how to get your chief executive to buy more into technology's role in helping reduce energy consumption or in managing environmental initiatives? Deloitte Consulting recently hosted a seminar called "Competing in the Low-Carbon Economy: The Essential Dialogue Between the CIO and the C-Suite. Its goal was...
- Tags: Sustainability, Deloitte LLP, Webinar, Green IT, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Review: How the iPhone 3GS stacks up as a corporate device
- Iphone is Insecure!While the article does a good job identifying the superficial pros and cons of the iPhone, it completely ignores the fact that information on the device is totally insecure. See, e.g., Bypassing Passcode and Backup Encryption: and do a quick Google search for iPhone Security for scads more...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Part-of IT, Apple iPhone, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Apple: 'Continues to study' Google Voice apps; AT&T: We played no part
- Apple, AT&T and Google have responded to an Federal Communications Commission inquiry into the Google Voice app flap. Apple says Google Voice apps interfere with iPhone functionality. AT&T says it had no role in the App Store approval process. If you recall, Google Voice related applications were booted from Apple's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Federal Government, Smart Phones, Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Mid-week HDTV news: Plasmas are hot sellers (again); Vizio remains tops in LCDs; Sony delays next OLED set
- The economic downturn no doubt helped push some manufacturers like Pioneer out of the plasma market, but the recession may now be saving plasmas from the brink of obsolescence. According to a new report from Quixel Research, plasma HDTVs have zoomed to a huge gain in 2Q of 2009, with...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Plasma, Organic Light-emitting Diode, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Using social software to reinvent the customer relationship
- What IS Enterprise Web 2.0?[of course there IS no such thing, and if there is it is the crumpled Frankenstein that it suggests it is]"While Enterprise 2.0 tools, primarily aimed at collaboration, are certainly part of this story, they often don?t help companies enjoy the full range of possibilities when...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Collaboration, Customer relationship management (CRM), Product marketing, social software, Social CRM
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Social Media Revolution?
- Here's another YouTube video - 'Social Media Revolution' - conflating a lot of stats in order to make a case for 'Social Media' being the 'biggest shift since the industrial revolution'. Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us started this style of delivery and...
- Tags: Social Media, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic Web
- RE: Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic WebIndeed the point is "how to make this work at Government scale" ?Data visualisation certainly helps. In fact this is the key in explaining what open data is all about. These are the flowers in TBL ted presentation. People don't care about boxes, they...
- Tags: Moving Data.gov, Semantic Web
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation
- Who cares?'m tired of this struggle for capitalism, I'm off to Galt's Gulch.Wah, wah, wah!Americans like Franklin, Westinghouse, Whitny, Kilby, didn't need fake "incentives"!Massengill Satchel"I don?t want to come across as a crying venture capitalist " but..............Sickening. Self-centered VC story. Complaining about access to talent, h1b's etc. No mention of...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Regulations, innovation, H1B, government
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- It's official: Microsoft-Yahoo ink 10-year search pact; Regulator scrum begins
- It's official: Microsoft-Yahoo ink 10-year search pact; Regulator scrum beginsPork Chop DateWe used to joke about a particular person being so ugly their parents would have to hang a pork chop around their neck to attract a date. That's kind of the same feeling I get about Bing. ...
- Tags: Free trade, SEARCH, Rep, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- SAP unplugged: Vishal Sikka and John Schwarz on deck
- Jeff Nolan and Vinnie Mirchandani have done a sterling job in reporting our meeting Vishal Sikka, SAP's CTO and John Schwarz, executive board member in charge of BusinessObjects. To my eternal shame, I was asleep for most of the meeting with Vishal having completely miscalculated the effects of jetlag, turning...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leadership, Financial Planning, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- A CIO's take on the home PC support dilemma
- This is a guest post by TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, CIO of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. You can find more posts like this in TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. This week, Bill Detwiler posed the following question in a poll: Should corporate help desks support home PCs? The responses...
- Tags: Home PC, Employee, PC, Computer, Productivity, Help Desk, It Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
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