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May 17, 2014 •
Management Practice, News •
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So you had your corporate web servers updated with the patch, pow-wowed with your vendors and other partners to make sure everything was contained, and when you caught a breath you changed your online banking passwords (I mean, you did, didn’t you?);...
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April 8, 2014 •
News, Standards & Regulation •
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An especially dangerous web vulnerability was discovered and made public yesterday, known as Heartbleed. You should read no further and simply change your critical online passwords without delay. Seriously. Do it now. You can get details in this...
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March 27, 2014 •
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A recent article in The Economist explained why skepticism about the utility of quantum computing is justified, one of many wait-and-see voices about this exotic and arcane technology. There are certain classes of tasks that may be performed much more...
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February 25, 2014 •
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It’s not hard to see the promise of 3D printers in a general way, but I don’t think I ever really grasped the full range and potential of this new technology until now. If you’re in manufacturing, you probably seized upon it right away for design and...
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February 15, 2014 •
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A HBR blog post entitled “Develop the Leaders You’ve Been Overlooking”, by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, argues that in every organization there are de facto leaders, the valued and respected contributors with deep knowledge and experience, who...
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February 5, 2014 •
Innovation, News •
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Joaquin Phoenix’s girlfriend in “Her” wouldn’t have been a program worth a fig if she didn’t have some ability to gauge her user’s emotions – so why does does it seem so alarming when Apple seeks to patent a system...
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January 24, 2014 •
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TechCrunch sounds a little surprised to discover that tablets are taking over the world. Funny, because we’ve all heard the growth projections: Gartner, as an example, says that sales of all devices are going to grow by 7.6% this year – and...
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January 17, 2014 •
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It will come as no surprise that businesses outside of the US are now leery about storing their data inside American borders, as was shown in this survey reported by CIO magazine. Some non-Americans see the Snowden scandal as an opportunity (The Toronto...
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January 9, 2014 •
Business Models, News •
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I read a lot about startups with the Next Big Thing in the works. Frequently I click through to see this wonderful new product and find there’s nothing there. Ready for prime time? Heck, the product would be an embarrassment amongst Saturday morning...
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January 8, 2014 •
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Obama’s observation to the entrepreneur that “You didn’t build that” is becoming increasingly accurate. The “Open Data 500” is a list of companies that are using public data as an integral component of a business model or product. There...
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November 12, 2013 •
Business Models, News •
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Innovation depends on VCs who fund those cutting edge startups when no other investor will, right? That’s what I thought too; but Steve Duplessie writing in CIO suggests otherwise. His point, in a nutshell, is that ever since the IPO market dried up and...
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November 6, 2013 •
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Someday I’m going to write a book about why market research is as useful as star signs and casting the i ching. Techmeme turned up this survey in which it’s implied that Google Glass is headed for the shelf with the Palm Pre simply because consumers...
