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PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive friction

PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive frictionBrown and Hagal on "productive friction"The principles and practices used by Toyota Motor have been described and thrashed around for at least two decades in business books and journals. Mr. Brown and Mr. Hagel appear to have taken that long to repackage...

Tags: productive friction, friction

Discussion threads 2005-04-12

PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive friction

Day three of PC Forum started with a discussion with John Seely Brown and John Hagel about productive friction, which is the subject of their forthcoming book The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization.Seely Brown described differences between the way Toyota and Detroit car...

Tags: productive friction, friction

Blog posts 2005-03-22

Additional Resources

Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?

I have seen an internal Oracle email that confirms persistent rumors that Jespers Andersen, SVP Application Development at Oracle has left for Cisco. The email says: "You may well have heard today, the rumour mill has been very busy that Jesper has resigned from Oracle. ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Jesper, Team Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Dell repair adventure, day 3

As in my last adventure with Dell, the "next day onsite" service has turned out not to be as advertised. If you don't remember that visit with Alice in Dell Land, here's a pointer to that string of posts. Although my initial Email discussions with Dell's technical...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Linux, E-mail, Team Management, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Data center energy use

This whole greening the data center business is getting out of hand - everywhere you look someone's preaching this, but the logic behind it simply doesn't stand up. Virtualization does not save energy - it just moves usage out of the data center. Hardly anyone talks about the real...

Tags: Data Center, Operating System, Energy, Virtualization Business, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Google Chrome, the security tidbits

Google Chrome, the security tidbitsweb apps[pre]Web apps can be launched in their own browser window without address bar and toolbar. [/pre]"Web apps" are better known as "phishing sites"RE: Google Chrome, the security tidbitsInterestingly Google has been prominently at the helm of "productive" apps even though it has been accused of...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Web application, security

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

How do we address the have-nots?

How do we address the have-nots?It's the NetThe problem is no longer the availability of hardware: many computers are being dumped that can easily be made productive again, by installing a lean Linux on it like Xubuntu. So poor people can have a fine computer for free. That's easy to...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, computer, Internet access

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Live Webcast: The Power of Collaboration

Today's fast-moving business climate requires everything to happen in real-time. Add to that the fact that companies of all sizes now have people spread out over increasingly greater distances and it's easy to understand the challenges for everything from regular meetings and creative development to sales and training. ...

Tags: Webcast, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-08-27

XenApp 5 - Citrix removes desktop virtualization inhibitors

XenApp 5 - Citrix removes desktop virtualization inhibitorshow about allowing me to move sessions between serversthats what i want. Need to take a server down.. great.. move all the sessions.No i dont want to use vmware, its too expensive.RE: XenApp 5 - Citrix removes desktop virtualization inhibitorsTesting 123For it...

Tags: Linux, XenApp 5, desktop virtualization inhibitor, desktop virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., desktop

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Demanding users: good news for RIAs, bad for "tech pros"

Demanding users: good news for RIAs, bad for "tech pros"IT is the problem not the employeeI love how IT keeps the worker down, as if they somehow have the final say in the purchase/use of software on a companies network. It's usually the department head or higher up that...

Tags: Social networking, Instant messaging, IT IS, rich Internet application

Discussion threads 2008-08-23

Demanding users: good news for RIAs, bad for "tech pros"

I've always taken two things as given. One, RIAs provide a far better experience for every day users and make them more productive. Two, that it was difficult to convince companies to spend money on that kind of prodictivitiy. That's why I was interested to read about the opinion of...

Tags: Software, Rich Internet Application, Worker, Tools & Techniques, Management, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-08-23

I'm done with GMail

I'm done with GMailRE: I'm done with GMailI was going to go off on 'WTF are you on about?' but I read the 'inbox zero' page first & saw this paragraph,"Gmail's made me see the value of having very few actual folders for storing new and archived mail. It makes...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2008-08-23

The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?

  This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...

Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-20

HP Pavilion dv5-1015nr

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.As a back-to-school laptop, the HP Pavilion dv5-1015nr is overkill, unless, perhaps, you've managed to squeeze a large LCD in your dorm room or pooled funds with...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, HP Pavilion, laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2008-08-20

Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ring

Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringI have many waysthere are many ways of dealing with these peoplewithout death being the punishment, they'd wish they were dead.RE: Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringThey should take everyone of them out and hang them. Don't let their neck snap but let them down...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)

Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)kids?Not sure at what age group you are referring to when you say kids.Basic computer skills are all that are necessary for middle and high school. If a student would like to explore advanced uses of a computer they...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Oh, really? Report says techies don't care much about salary.

Oh, really? Report says techies don't care much about salary.Location mattersIt really depends on who you ask and where these techies are. I bet techies working in NYC are either after high pressure environment or $$$, whereas techies working in Hawaii would be more interested in *surfing*...There's a good deal...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Happiness, salary, job

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

HP Pavilion dv5-1004nr

Note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv5-1004nr is a slightly more powerful version of the Pavilion dv5-1002nr system we reviewed earlier this month, providing a bit more processing power, more memory,...

Tags: Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-08-19

<grimace>I'm going to my first administrators' meeting!</grimace>

I'm going to my first administrators' meeting!You have your work cut out for you!Since most administrators and few teachers understand the very even the basics of computers, and since most states mandate computer objectives which focus on teaching software rather then concepts it will be a fight between the computer...

Tags: administrator, first administrator, education, computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

My bad day with Windows Server 2003

Today was not a good computer day. I had some good meetings (yes, actual good, productive meetings), finished a couple items on my to do list, and even got some of that good old Ikea furniture put together. The part of my job where I work with a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-18