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Upgrade talent for the economy to come

Bad pathologies to avoid in new employees One of the best pieces of advice that came from last week’s IDC Directions conference was an almost throwaway comment from one of the IDC executive speakers: Start planning for the recovery. That’s actually...

Tags: Talent, Firm, Self-starters, Malcolm Gladwell, Stars, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Blink - Malcolm Gladwell on our mysterious decisions

Why does "open source intelligence" work? Isn't it counterintuitive that lower-grade information, as publicly available information should be, would lead to as good as or better analysis as that based on high-quality intel? Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink," addressed this issue briefly in a speech to Hamline University Law...

Tags: Malcolm Gladwell

Blog posts 2006-04-25

Blinking at the Web

Blinking at the WebMalcolm Gladwell is hardly credibleMr. Gladwell is not a good person to quote. Sit down with his writings with a critical mind and think about what he is actually doing. His formula is quite simple: he leads with a little story about a common situation that goes...

Tags: Channel management, Web, Malcolm Gladwell

Discussion threads 2006-01-26

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Social book reading in the digital age

* Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Andy Santamaria I know what you're thinking. You read the title of this post and thought, "Books have always been social, we share them with friends, form book clubs, and bend at Oprah's...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Blog, Andy Santamaria, E-books, Blogging, Personal Technology, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-11-02

The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards

On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Standard, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration

Padmasree Warrior is, to quote her biography on their company blog "Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company’s technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco’s corporate goals....

Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Cisco Systems Inc., Padmasree Warrior, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-25

Time for SOA 'Outliers' to reshape service orientation?

I've been reading Malcolm Gladwell's latest work, Outliers, which is packed full of interesting observations about people who rose above the rest and achieved incredible success in their respective endeavors. An interesting point Gladwell makes is that all people successful in their respective fields all have one...

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

Blog posts 2009-01-19

Three recommended 'must-read' social business books

Three recommended 'must-read' social business booksBook Suggestion: join the "Pirates"Stretches the definition of "social business" a bit, but can't recommend The Pirate's Dilemma enough: http://thepiratesdilemma.com/RE: Three recommended 'must-read' social business booksThe main reading I do seems to be around social media these days! Most are the usual recommendations: Seth Godin,...

Tags: social business book, business book

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

CIO BT Design: JP Rangaswami - Transcript

Dan Farber: JP thanks for joining me. JP Rangaswami: A pleasure Dan, it’s been a while since we’ve met, looking forward to having a proper conversation. Dan Farber: I am as well Dan Farber: JP you have a new role at...

Tags: CIO, Collaboration, Role, Network, British Telecommunications, Customer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Productivity, Asset Management, Networking, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Administrator

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Harvard Business Review: 20 top ideas that challenge what you know

The Harvard Business Review has a list of top 20 "Breakthrough Ideas for 2007." Some interesting, ideas here that are counter-culture in that they challenge accepted thinking in many different areas. Siobhan Ford from HBR says that the list is free to read for all of February and that the...

Tags: Disruptive, Emerging Hotbed

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Scarcity and long queues are a marketing strategy

If you plan on buying a Sony PlayStation 3 or a Microsoft Zune this Christmas, then you will join an elite group of individuals who will have the privilege of beta testing that product.  On top of that, you'll be expected to market that product aggressively during 2007 by actively...

Tags: marketing strategy, marketing, scarcity

Blog posts 2006-10-02

Chess master Kasparov takes on tech execs...and Putin

At the Disruptions 2005 technology conference put on by Deloitte in San Francisco today, world renowned chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov gave a brief speech and then simultaneously played against about 20 of the executives attending the conference. I talked to Udi Manber, CEO of Amazon’s A9 search engine, who proudly...

Tags: Garry Kasparov

Blog posts 2005-09-16