Mid-market CIOs have their say

From mpc managed desktops and Information Builders business intelligence solutions to ShoreTel VoIP solutions, see what mid-market CIOs liked at a recent event in Orlando Florida.  More than 300 senior technology executives from the mid-market sector gathered to examine some blazing, a few established and many interesting technology products and solutions.  Find out what they liked [...]

Which Cloud are you on?

Do you use Cloud computing to virtually expand your technology capabilities?  Read all about the rage that is Cloud computing in a recent New York Times feature -
http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E180025742400363509.html?ref
Whether you view a narrow wisp of Cloud computing or take a global view where you include anything outside “your” network find out who the key players are, [...]

Generation Gap … embracing and bridging the gap

Do you have a strategy to embrace and bridge the generation gap we are witnessing in the IT workforce?  Read what CIO INSIGHT has to offer as 5 tips to manage the generation gap - http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Slideshows/5-Ways-to-Manage-Across-the-Generations/?kc=COQFTEMNL050108STR5
How do you balance the energy and enthusiasm of your “younger” workforce with the structure and stability that your organization [...]

Wikinnovation - Unleash the human potential

Are you using Wikis to unleash the power of collaboration within your enterprise?  Find out how some CIOs are leading the way by empowering their associates to generate, share and discuss ideas through an open forum.  Something about this seems fundamentally human to us?  What do you think?  Can Wikis take water-cooler innovation to the [...]

Disruptive Tecnologies … are you ready?

Gartner analysts gazed into the crystal ball and identified the top 10 disruptive technologies.  If Augmented Reality, Context-Aware, Mashups and Enterprise Social Software with it’s characteristic chaotic co-production are not part of lexicon, get ready.  The next wave of disruptive technologies span the gamut from pure tech to changing how we humans fundamentally may interact [...]

The B Word - Should Facebook be b****** @ work?

Facebook has taken ‘Generation Next’ by storm.  Is Corporate America ready for the Facebook Generation?  eWeek explores this question in an interesting article at http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Should-Facebook-Be-Banned-from-Work/?kc=EWKNLEDP041108A
What do you think?  Should Facebook be banned in the workplace?  Even the experts are divided … read on.   Read what some of us think but most importantly let us know [...]

Perception is reality - but what about the other way around?

Expectations have long been studied by psychologists. What we expect plays a big role in determining how effective certain medications are, for example. Now there is additional research showing the brain does even more active ‘adjusting’ of our senses than previously thought.

Analytics are the heart of Balancing Innovation and Cost Leadership

Analytics are the heart of Balancing Innovation and Cost Leadership In Your Business.  With ever increasing business drivers and unlimited choices to customers across the globe, you not only need to know what, but why business events are occurring. What is going to happen and how to prepare for the unknown business challenges?  Here, the [...]

Enterprise 2.0 Technology Enabler - Hype, Hope or 2010 Mainstream?

With the advent of Web2.0 tools and services such as Blogs, wikis, RRS, social networking, social bookmarking and mashups, the enterprise has more innovative tools than ever for collaboration, knowledge sharing, search, discovery and collective intelligence among distributed workforces, partners and customers.

Don’t Multi-task as you read this!

Newsweek recently ran an article that spoke about the downside of something many of us take for granted, and perhaps even tout as a ‘core competency’ - multi-tasking.  Researchers have apparently found a negative correlation between multi-tasking and rational decision making. 
Now, if that’s not scary enough, consider this - a survey of 5000 people conducted [...]