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So often IT and finance are cast as adversaries, with the former battling for something the latter just doesn’t want to give. So I really enjoyed a recent Computerworld story that relates how IT helped the finance department at Title Resource Group, a real estate closing company, bring down the company’s telecommunications costs.
They did it […]

Andy Warhol once said that “in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” And that was before YouTube.
A modern twist on that statement could be that “in no time at all, everyone will have their own social network.”
New York Times blogger Vindu Goel spotlights a site called Burnt Marshmallows, a social network for […]

On Friday I wrote about RFID’s struggle for respect, a matter complicated by the original overheated expectations that tried to sell RFID as the solution to almost every business ill, from shoddy supply chains to poor customer relations.
So far, RFID has proven more successful in smaller-scale, closed-loop applications than in broader business initiatives, I mentioned. […]

In writing about Gartner’s latest HypeCycle report last week, I noted somewhat snarkily that RFID had been “mired in the Trough of Disillusionment for an awfully long time.” Gartner projects that RFID will become mainstream within a decade (in the company of such technologies as surface computers, 3-D printing, virtual assistants and context-delivery architecture).
Seems like I […]

I wrote last week about how to inspire innovation within a company by empowering employees to operate outside the usual business processes.
All fine and good, but some folks think that much future innovation will come from outside, rather than inside, companies. So it will also be important to tap into ideas from customers, suppliers and […]