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5 Reasons To Be Optimistic About Technology Innovation In The Year Ahead

December 24, 2011 by Joe McKendrick
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For many people, it’s been a tough year. Yet, underneath the gloom and rocky economy, we’re seeing buds of a new economy of opportunity emerging, driven in large part by technology. Just as the moribund economy of the early 1980s was fueled in part by Silicon Valley and the software industry, and the moribund economy of the early 1990s... [read more]

A Small Idea with Big Implications

August 24, 2011 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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In the 1990s Philippe Kahn, a founder of Borland (a big name in programming languages), left and began a new enterprise called Starfish.  He talked in several interviews about creating small lightweight software that ran as part of the desktop or on mobile devices.  Today, this seems obvious, but back then it was anything but.... [read more]

How Life Will Be Different--and the Same--in 2072

August 11, 2011 by Stephen Baker
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"In my novel, which I just sent to my agent on Friday, I asked myself at every juncture how much "Jetsons" to put into it. But I kept reminding myself that 2072, in many areas, probably won't feel all that different from what we live today. The one difference, and the key focus in the story, has to do with the exponential growth of computing." [read more]

2000-2010: How Technology Changed the Way We Work

December 30, 2010 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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2000-2010 brought about some rapid advances in enterprise technology. From cloud computing to SaaS, small and large businesses alike became equipped with cheaper, more efficient programs to conduct their operations. Improvements in web technology and the increased availability of information leveled the playing field for start-ups,... [read more]

"We have lots of information technology...We just do not have any information."

November 25, 2010 by Vincent Granville
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a common problem in many organizations, but a solvable one:-) [read more]

My Complicated Relationship with Technology

September 2, 2010 by Phil Simon
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Food+Tech Connect: Promoting a Networked Food System

July 28, 2010 by Jack Mason
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food+tech connect | promoting a networked food system Created by shiftN, this map visualizes the global interconnections among food, agriculture, water, energy, soil, and humans that comprise our food system. What fascinates me about this map is how I discovered it and how that process demonstrates an opportunity for information... [read more]

Solving the MDM Problem is Not Easy.

July 28, 2010 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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Master Data Management is inherently challenging. Technology alone will not solve the problem – most of the root causes issues are process and competency-oriented: Organisations typically have complex data quality issues with master data, especially with customer and address data from legacy systems There is often a high... [read more]

7/17/2009 1:59:47 PM

July 17, 2009 by Robin Carey
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General John Handy is the just the kind of guy you want with you in a foxhole, if the foxhole were flying at 10,000 feet. Over a 39-year career in the U.S. armed services, he was a pilot, a wing commander, the Vice Chief of the Air Force and finally the guy who ran the equivalent of UPS and travel service for the Pentagon (U.S.... [read more]

e2.0 Iterativ Project Method: Defining business needs and drivers (post 2 or 5)

May 3, 2009 by Michael Fauscette
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  This is number 2 in a series of five post. Inthe previous post I started outlining a basicmethodology for implementing e2.0 (social enterprise) initiatives that I callthe Iterative Project Method. Before we dive into the first phase of themethodology, “Define business needs / drivers” I will reinforce a few key ideas. First, because... [read more]

Integration of this blog with twitter.com

April 30, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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I have been using twitter.com to a greater degree over the last few months and thought that it would make sense to better integrate my blog with this site. Accordingly recent posts, including this one, now have a link at the bottom (between the main text and the bookmarks) enabling readers to directly “tweet” the piece. This appears... [read more]

“Why do CFOs and CEOs hate IT? - ERP” - Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com

April 27, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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This is my second article in response to pieces by Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com (you can read the first one here). In Thomas’ latest piece, entitled Why CFOs and CEOs Hate IT: ERP, he touches on an area of which I have lengthy experience, ERP. I spent the first eight years of my career working for a a software house, whose central product... [read more]

A business intelligence parable

April 6, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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Once upon a time there were two technology companies, both operating in the Corporate On-Line Analysis market. On was called Credible Organisational KPI Enterprise (IT people love acronyms so much that they sometimes even nest them) and the other was known as Predictive Enlightenment Powered by Statistical Inference. However, both... [read more]

Neil Raden’s thoughts on Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence

March 30, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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Industry luminary Neil Raden, founder of Hired Brains, has weighed into the ongoing debate about Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence on his Intelligent Enterprise blog. The discussions were spawned by comments made by Jim Davis, Chief Marketing Officer of SAS, at a the recent SAS Global Forum. Neil was in the audience when Jim... [read more]

Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence

March 28, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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 “Business intelligence is an over-used term that has had its day, and business analytics is now the differentiator that will allow customers to better forecast the future especially in this current economic climate.”  Jim Davis  SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, SAS Institute Inc. The above quote is courtesy of an article reported on... [read more]

Short-term “Trouble for Big Business Intelligence Vendors” may lead to longer-term advantage

March 23, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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 This post is another that highlights responses I have made on various LinkedIn.com forums. In this case, a news article was posted on the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Network group (as ever you need to be a member of LinkedIn.com and the group to view the original thread).The news article itself linked to a piece / podcast on... [read more]