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July 23, 2013 •
Management Practice, News •
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HBR’s David Burkus tells us that it’s not hard to get the ideas flowing and argues that the real management challenge is spotting the good ones. He reports a Wharton study that suggests the reason for this is simply uncertainty. I can attest...
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July 23, 2013 •
Innovation, News •
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The technical details in this article about five-dimensional data storage in a quartz crystal are fascinating. What it means in practice is probably the most reliable means of storage conceivable. I expect it will always be a little pricier than other...
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July 22, 2013 •
Management Practice, News •
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Wired’s Ben Paynter thinks gaming could provide hiring managers the information they need to select job candidates. Color me skeptical. There are certainly skills that could be identified that way (I believe there are MBA factories that accept any...
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July 22, 2013 •
Management Practice, News •
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I’m always pleased to read about IT as a strategic driver. It’s still so common to find executives who yet regard IT as a cost center that supports the business rather than a source of strategic advantage. This HBR article belts that one...
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July 14, 2013 •
Management Practice •
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CIO magazine observes that the number of developers in India is set to surpass those in the US in 2017. I’m a little surprised that it will take that long, but be that as it may, there is clearly still fertile ground in the sub-continent for a...
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July 14, 2013 •
Business Models, News •
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Some of this essay by Paul Graham is the usual patting-myself-on-the-back, rah, rah, rah VC self-promotion. But I think many of us when struck by a business idea that may contain the seeds of brilliance have trouble seeing how to get from here to there....
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July 10, 2013 •
Management Practice, News •
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In some circumstances your more sophisticated users are better at finding bugs in your software than expert consultants (says The Register, reporting on the efficacy of crowd-sourcing as a means of finding security holes in a browser). There’s an idea...
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July 8, 2013 •
Management Practice, News •
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For all that data analytics has been a buzzword for several years, and there are plenty of players, both vendors and large users, it still seems that for most SMEs, not to mention consumers and citizens, analytics is still something that is done about and...
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July 7, 2013 •
Business Models, News •
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Forbes and others report that New York’s Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, is frothing over Verizon’s offer to Fire Island residents to replace their wired phone service with wireless for about the same cost. On the face of it, this is a...
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July 6, 2013 •
News, Standards & Regulation •
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The ICANN has announced the approval by its board of the new 2013 Registry Agreement, under which registrars will be able to offer the new generic Top Level Domain names. For those feeling confined by the same old .com, .net and .org choices, the gTLD...
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July 6, 2013 •
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Research by Gartner suggests that global IT spending will increase by only 2% this year, to $US3.7 trillion. Sounds like a lot of money, but if we’re looking to climb out of a recession here, it’s not a very big bump. The stock market has been...
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July 3, 2013 •
Business Models •
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Developing a software application is becoming so simple programmers can create an app for such a specific purpose that only a handful of users would want it. Here’s a TechCrunch article that describes an app useful for people who want to locate their...
