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The reaction of speakers, when urged to appear without PowerPoint, often is as if they were urged to appear without pants , according to CIO.com . The total snooze factor of most trade pres... More >
In a podcast on SearchCIO-Midmarket.com , Forrester Research VP Craig Symons says it's vital for midsize companies to have a formal IT governance model in place. Symons, an expert on gainin... More >
In an article on CIO Update , Mary Nugent of BMC Software writes that IT-business alignment isn't just the job of the CIO, but one that involves process improvement and goes beyond just translating... More >
In an article on CIO Today , Global 360 CEO David Mitchell looks at manufacturing process management to consider how to improve worker productivity as part of business process management initiativ... More >
MIT researchers say tiny optical tags they've developed could replace bar codes and be more secure than RFID tags, reports InformationWeek . I recently wrote about the rising popularity of ... More >
These days when companies seemingly have so much information about their customers, why is it so hard to draw reliable conclusions from it? The tools are there, and have even been developed to have... More >
The UK government has issued a formal policy on the use of Twitter by employees -- a 20-page guide to the 140-word microblogging service, reports Digital Trends . It quotes Neil Williams, ... More >
The recent fire and electrical outage at Seattle’s Fisher Plaza data center took down a number of Web sites, but it also severed connections for the hospital records and communications services for... More >
IT Business Edge Editor Ken Hardin wrote a while back that for business, where numbers rule, social media efforts remain frustratingly "soft." It seems a lot of people agree, despite a recent... More >
The New York Times has an interesting story about research being done by Disney into the eye movements of people who don't click on online ads. Much online research is based on the number of click... More >
Though Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told a conference he turned cartwheels down the hallway after Apple lawyers called , upset about the "laptop hunters" commercials, it has quietl... More >
In a column on non-verbal communication in The Washington Post , executive coach Carol Kinsey Goman uses some tech execs as examples. She says gestures often convey more than words. She poi... More >
Just how will Walmart pull off its worldwide sustainable product index ? Business Week says it's going to be expensive for suppliers to provide the required information on how manufacturing all ... More >
The respected Mayo Clinic has come out against President Obama's national health care agenda, decrying it for failing to use data to improve patient care, reports Paul McDougall at InformationWeek .... More >
Does using social media help companies succeed? Or is it just a trend for successful companies to use social media? There seems to be a link between the two, though a study by wiki provider W... More >
Best Buy is sending more than 500 sales and customer service reps out on Twitter. Though the consumer electronics retailer began using Twitter for internal communication about a year ago, up until no... More >
While business intelligence traditionally was used to drive revenue, it also can be used to cut costs , according to NewsFactor.com . The analytics tools can be used to indentify unprofitabl... More >
Two writers on Harvard Business Publishing weigh in on Walmart's new sustainability index for suppliers. In a nutshell, the total ecological cost of a product will be boiled down into a single rati... More >
If your organization struggles to get IT and business folks on the same page, nuture relationships between the two, writes Susan Cramm on Harvard Business Publishing . If IT treats people l... More >
In a piece on ebizQ , David Linthicum points to a CIO article on using business intelligence to treat cancer. He writes: The reality is that the information existing within the clinical sit... More >
At a conference Wednesday, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner said he knew the company's "Laptop Hunters" ads were working when Apple's legal department tried to get them pulled , reports AppleInsider . &... More >
When it comes to customer service, Microsoft and Verizon have some 'splaining to do, reports CNet News . The two ranked poorly in a report by market researcher VendorRate . During the seco... More >
In the latest example of a frustrated customer going online to air his complaints, Sons of Maxwell band leader Dave Carroll turned to YouTube with a song called "United Breaks Guitars." It's been a... More >
Microsoft is continuing Bill Gates' tradition of "think weeks" -- going off into the wilds to read papers on the latest thinking in technology, reports TechFlash . (OK, the writing probably was pr... More >
With the terrific headline "eBay Live! now dead" -- the writing, not the news -- Reuters reports that eBay's huge live networking event to connect sellers has been canceled. The Wall Stree... More >
The U.S. venture capital industry raised only $1.7 billion in the second quarter, down from the $4.6 billion raised in the first quarter, reports The San Jose Mercury News . The numbers com... More >
The worst is over for advertising, but a category called " response-based online advertising" is expected to be the only medium showing growth this year , according to Interpublic’s Magna unit. &nbs... More >
Though it's tough to raise capital these days, other factors are making it easier than ever to start a business on a shoestring , reports The Wall Street Journal . In this tough economy, it'... More >
On Harvard Business Publishing , leadership consultant John Baldoni urges adopting the concept of the six-word memoir to distill your leadership legacy. Smith College's magazine came up with ... More >
These days, everyone's looking to squeeze every last dime, but Amazon, known for being what TechFlash calls "frugal," has hit upon a new idea. Workers at a fulfillment center in Kentucky dec... More >
Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo, and three other digital media types have formed a venture capital fund for European startups , reports BrandRepublic . Joining Birch are Brent Hoberman, co... More >
In a piece on Future Changes , Michael Idinopulos, a Socialtext VP, explains two different kinds of wikis . In-the-Flow wikis are a place where people do their day-to-day work, typically rep... More >
Peter Merholz, president of Adaptive Path, points to Nintendo and Southwest Airlines as companies with focus on customer experience that leads to success . In a piece on Harvard Business Pub... More >
Keeping IT systems running becomes a priority when a business fails , according to an article in Financial Times . It's vital for insolvency administrators to be able to protect intellectual... More >
Research firm EMarketer has lowered its outlook for U.S. ad spending on social networks , foreseeing a decline of 3 percent to $1.1 billion this year, reports ClickZ . It's attributing it to -- wha... More >
To change a corporate culture, change the stories told in your company , advises Peter Bregman at Harvard Business Publishing . He tells of a client who told the story about requiring an emp... More >
An interesting piece in Fortune explains how food distributor Sysco uses technology to gain maximum efficiency. It says Sysco supplies one in three U.S. restaurants, cafeterias and sports ... More >
The fire and power outage at Seattle's Fisher Plaza East data center facilities offers important lessons in disaster planning, reports TechFlash . Microsoft's Bing Travel site was down for 36 hours,... More >
After all the uproar over the secret testing of the Phorm targeted-advertising project, BT, the U.K.'s largest Internet service provider, has announced it has no immediate plans to implement it. Sh... More >
A doctoral student at Indiana University’s School of Informatics has released an updated add-on to the Firefox browser to allow people a simple way to opt out of targeted advertising on 84 differen... More >
Moves toward creating a greener data center are more return-driven now than in the past several years, and an ROI calculation is necessary, says Datamonitor analyst Rhonda Ascierto, who recently comp... More >
Now that Forrester Research is forecasting a drop of 10.6 percent in global IT spending for 2009 , and a drop of 5.1 percent in the U.S. for the year, it adds that the resulting position for many co... More >
On-demand software maker LogMeIn set its share price at $16 for its initial public offering, the top of its expected price range, reports Reuters . The Woburn, Mass.-based company sold 6.7... More >
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