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November 1, 2015 •
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The famous, fatuous remark, “I don’t know much about art but I know what I like” has been riffed upon for at least a century. It derides the dull sensibilities of John Q. Public, oblivious to the richness that is exposed to him in oil daubed on...
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October 23, 2015 •
Innovation, News •
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“Disruptive” has entered every technologist’s vocabulary and, as invariably happens with a popular buzzword, the term is now as overused as the “f” word in a Tarantino drama. To be disruptive, a technology needs to upset a business model, not a...
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August 9, 2015 •
Management Practice, News •
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The H1-B visa can be a political hot button, with some people saying there are too many issued and decrying the jobs lost to foreigners. Others who have difficulty finding employees with technical skills join the annual calls to raise the cap. All...
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June 2, 2015 •
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Being an IT professional in the insurance industry is a bit like being an engineer on an air base: in the air force, nobody listens to you unless you’re a pilot or a navigator. In an insurance company, the actuaries and underwriters get the...
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January 8, 2015 •
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I was all cranked up to rant against the swelling tide of email. “How long, oh lord, how long must we put up with this evil scourge?” and so on. I was only away from my desk for two working days over Christmas yet it took most of a morning...
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December 6, 2014 •
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In support of a worthy cause, no question, but even most of those who come to “Women in Technology” events must question their point. What are women to gain from the lectures, panelists and kumbaya? It’s the men who have something to...
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December 1, 2014 •
News, Standards & Regulation •
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What is an IT executive to think about net neutrality? The internet is often compared to a highway, a common infrastructure available to all. The current debate revolves around how strong we’d like to make that analogy. While consumers and...
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July 6, 2014 •
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Michael C. Mankins writes on HBR’s site that a VP makes work for two other people. By implication, the cost of hiring a manager at that level is not just that person’s employment costs but those of the two others as well. Mankins’ graph shows this...
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May 26, 2014 •
Business Models, News •
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You’ve probably spent a little time thinking about what it will mean to have an “internet of things”. Maybe within your industry you’ve even mapped it out, but outside of one’s own domain the follow-on consequences are...
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May 17, 2014 •
Business Models, News •
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Entrepreneurs take note: the FAA is taking a business-friendly tack on the rules it applies to commercial drone use. This includes plans to accelerate the permit approval process. Granted, it will be about a year before the rules have effect, but...
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May 17, 2014 •
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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 •
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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...
