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- 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
- Self insured may be biggest winners in health reform
- more nonsenseAvoiding insurance companies and creeating death panels are not going to improve the healthcare.The only measures that can relly reform helthcare are in the republican bills that the democrats don't want you to see.Noo thanks"Intervention in maintaining wellness."If by "intervention" you mean "we know what's better for you than...
- Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, patient, Dana, Obama, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring
- Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., Restructuring, Senior Executive, Executive, $119mm, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld Experiences
- I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.) Here are my initial impressions of the event: The event is significantly smaller than any I...
- Tags: IDG World Expo, Event, Vendor Area, Data Centers, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Microsoft sheds 2,000-employee ad agency in $530 million deal
- I think they mention Word just as an exampleI wouldn't cite Word as a propietary format that doesn't allow being searched - My take is that, even though it is propietary, it is well known and can be read by 3rd parties... The issue seems that in the future programs...
- Tags: Workforce management, advertisement, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, job
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Wyse releases virtual desktop accelerator
- Wyse has launched a virtual desktop accelerator and hopes that will open the door to greater acceptance of the concept of a hosted virtual desktop environment. One of the key inhibitors in the past have been overall performance due to transmission latency and loss of data that required retransmission. Wyse,...
- Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Virtual Desktop, Wyse Technology Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- WebEx augurs ill for Cisco's cloud ambitions
- WebEx augurs ill for Cisco's cloud ambitionsill indeed... innovation will come from elswehere!Hi Phil, We met back in 2004 when you covered Intranets.com and WebEx...I tend to agree with all your points about the pace of innovation at WebEx and Cisco - I was at that launch party in 2006!Web...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., WebEx Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Amazon vs. tax happy states: E-tailer could nuke Associates program and still win
- Amazon vs. tax happy states: E-tailer could nuke Associates program and still winFree internet, a distruption to govt run bussinessesFor past few centuries governments always picked businesses which are very easy and made sure of no-competition. Some of these businesses are tax collection, lottery program, etc. Only politicians have full...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Amazon.com Inc., happy state, tax, still win, online retail company
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Pitney Bowes branded community reduces customer support costs
- During the 2007 postal rate change Pitney Bowes, which provides postal equipment and services to businesses, received more than 415K support phone calls on the rate change alone, all in under a month. This was in addition to the company's usual flow of customer calls, so its support teams were...
- Tags: Community, Pitney Bowes Inc., Lithium Technologies Inc., Team Management, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- CLEAR Airport Verified Identity Pass calls it Quits (UPDATED)
- In a brief email sent to customers at 10:45PM EST, Verified Identity Pass notified its 250,000 customers that the CLEAR service was no more click on photo to enlarge Well I can't say that it was unexpected, but it's definitely a...
- Tags: Clear, Identity, Steven Brill, Security, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- 6 Things To Know About Managed Print Services
- Hi Doc followers. I wanted to turn back to Managed Print Services MPS for today, and share some smart info from the mad in a good way minds at the Photizo Group. Don’t forget to go Link-In with them as well. I normally like top 10 lists,...
- Tags: Managed Print Services, Photizo Group, Hybrid Dealer, Operational Planning, Document Management, Strategy, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Doc
- Sponsored content 2009-06-19
- Optimizing the branch: Mobilizing IT
- Writing on technologies for the branch office often times places me across the domains of mobility and non-mobile network infrastructure. Increasingly, in client inquiry calls, the question of "how do I optimize my branch office infrastructure" comes up and takes many forms. I'll attempt to address the most common of...
- Tags: Branch Office, Information Technology, Carrier, 3G, WiMAX, Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Silva
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Partnership for Families - a Virtual Computer NxTop user profile
- I've spoken with the good folks of Virtual Computer on several ocassions see Desktop virtualization according to Virtual Computer and Virtual Computer NxTop Beta. This time, I had the opportunity to speak with John Cook, Systems Administrator at Partnership For Strong Families. Thanks John for taking the time to chat!...
- Tags: Business Structures, Computer, Computer NxTop, Dan Kusnetzky, Finance, Partnership, Virtual Computer
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Apple cuts 1,600 retail jobs
- Apple cuts 1,600 retail jobsApparently same SEC filing Apple ADDED R&D jobs. MacDailyNews notes that in the same SEC filing Apple added jobs in other depts. namely R&D. But of course Apple cutting jobs is a lot more exciting and makes all the headlines (must say that this article here...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, tech media, Jason, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., job
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- How to make Government 2.0 a reality
- Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...
- Tags: Web, Agency, Tool, Government, Web 2.0, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- 10 ways to be a good manager during a recession
-  Guest post via TechRepublic's Polly Schneider Traylor. For more posts like this see the 10 Things blog. It’s clear that the current recession is not going to be a fleeting phenomenon. Managers need to learn how to lead under extraordinary marketplace pressures and...
- Tags: Layoff, Recession, Staff, Polly Schneider Traylor, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Benefits, Human Resources, Career, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Opengear console server for the dynamic datacenter
- If we had an opportunity to visit a typical datacenter, we'd see mainframes, midrange systems, industry standard systems, storage systems, air conditioning equipment, power supplies and just about every other type of computing equipment. Oh yes, don't forget the cappachino machine for the operations staff. Each of these pieces of...
- Tags: Console, Data Center, Network, Open Source, Server, Console Server, Opengear, uClinux, Data Centers, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Washington Post kills stand-alone business section
- updated: The Washington Post said today that it will eliminate the stand-alone section devoted to business news, wrapping the news into the paper's A section instead, and will dramatically reduce the amount of stock data it publishes. The change takes effect March 30. The memo to employees has been posted...
- Tags: Stock, Section, Washington Post Co., Post, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Craigslist: 'Spectacular' decline in erotic services listings
- Craigslist, which is under fire from a lawsuit launched Cook County Illinois Sheriff Thomas Dart, has detailed its efforts with reducing "erotic services" listings on its site since it struck a deal with state authorities. In a blog post, Craigslist detailed its progress in ridding the site...
- Tags: Craigslist, Advertisement, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Building Drill-Down Capabilities Dynamically in SAS Output Using Base SAS
- When researchers wish to investigate or verify data values for selected cases observations, they often ask programmers to provide the ID numbers of those cases. An application that allows non-programmers to view listings of ID numbers associated with responses of interest could be a valuable tool in the data examination...
- Tags: SAS Institute
- White papers 2009-02-27
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