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June 23, 2013 •
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Here’s a useful new idea for small businesses and startup software companies among others: a free online notary. It appears technically sound, so much so that I’m surprised no one has ever thought of it before. And the service is free (free is...
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June 20, 2013 •
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Title of world’s fastest supercomputer now resides in China. Their new Tianhe-2 claims nearly 34 petaflops. These laurels get passed around the world regularly: only last year IBM in the US declared it had the world’s fastest supercomputer,...
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June 19, 2013 •
Business Models, News •
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Well, some of them are. TechCrunch reports that a network of angel investors have raised $7 million in Bitcoin, and even invested $100,000 of it in an offshore (literally – it’s in international waters) startup incubator, BlueSeed. The initial...
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June 18, 2013 •
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Insurance companies have an interest in their insureds’ health, and it’s a benign interest: they lose if you lose. So it makes sense for Aetna to distribute an app , called Carepass, that helps their customers track their fitness goals and...
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June 17, 2013 •
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The world’s final telegram is to be sent in India next month. This is the flip side of innovation. We spend so much time peering at the other end of the technology lifecycle, maybe we should take a second to reflect on how quickly our smartphones will...
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May 21, 2013 •
Business Models •
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I do not plan to read Jaron Lanier’s book, “Who Owns the Future?“, owing to its less than positive review in the Globe & Mail. All the same, the premise that there are a range of business models that are getting a free ride on gratuitously...
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May 16, 2013 •
Management Practice •
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In a dot Leader post this last March I maintained, not for the first time, that Nicolas Carr’s famous contention that “IT Doesn’t Matter” treated IT too generally. His conclusions fail, I argued, because IT is in reality not a single technology but...
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May 8, 2013 •
Management Practice •
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What’s the latest buzzword? Lean! Not as in “lean in”, Sheryl Sandberg’s popular call to personal affirmative action, but as in “Lean Startup“, the extension of Agile from software development to business creation. This began as a way for a...
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April 26, 2013 •
Management Practice •
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The Ghost of Christmas Past The first night the ghost visited me, I was swept back to the nineties. We peered through a window in my office in Kanata, twenty minutes from my home in Ottawa. When I recovered from the surprise (of having a window in my...
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April 16, 2013 •
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We keep hearing about the numbers of IT projects that fail. As long as I’ve been an IT manager, even before I left the military nearly 20 years ago, I’ve heard shocking statistics about project failure rates. Gartner believes they can tell us why,...
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April 8, 2013 •
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Many years ago I was privileged to represent my country at commemorative ceremonies in Egypt for the 50th anniversary of the battle of El Alamein. Churchill famously said of the outcome of that battle “Now this is not the end. It is not even the...
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April 1, 2013 •
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I was until recently a student at an Ivy League university, a circumstance I mention not because of any bragging rights but to show that I have some firsthand experience of the current enthusiasm for remote learning. It’s unlikely you’ve missed this...
