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Month: May 2004
Raising Your Return on Innovation Investment
Raising Your Return on Innovation Investment. I'm fascinated by innovation and read everything I can get my hands on about innovation and innovation strategy. A new article in Strategy+Business called “Raising Your Return on Innovation Investment” by Alexander Kandybin and Martin Kihn of Booz Allen Hamilton, has definitely gotten my attention. In the article, the… Continue reading Raising Your Return on Innovation Investment
Spam Panic and Rescue: The New Life Style
Spam Panic and Rescue: The New Life Style I've been using a spam filter for the last month or so (that could scarcely be news), but it's about the 13th or 14th one I've tried and the first one that I like and feel I can rely on. So imagine my panic when I returned… Continue reading Spam Panic and Rescue: The New Life Style
Some people think Information Technology doesn't matter
Some people think Information Technology doesn't matter. The New York Times has a review of “Does IT Matter?” a new book by Harvard Business School Press. The author contends that knowing how to manage information technology (“IT”) no longer gives companies a competitive edge because technology is basically a utility like electricity, which everyone has access… Continue reading Some people think Information Technology doesn't matter
“It will be china shop rules in Iraq: you break it, you pay for it.”
“It will be china shop rules in Iraq: you break it, you pay for it.”. Peter Galbraith: How to get out of Iraq. [John Robb's Weblog] A very long and interesting piece from someone who has experience in Iraq and seems to have done a lot of thinking about how to go forward. His conclusion… Continue reading “It will be china shop rules in Iraq: you break it, you pay for it.”
Work Is No Longer A Place But An Activity
Work Is No Longer A Place But An Activity. Some interesting material in this article on the changing nature of work. Falling laptop prices, better remote access technologies and widespread broadband are driving people out of the head office and into the home office. According to JALA International, a teleworking consultancy company, there will be… Continue reading Work Is No Longer A Place But An Activity
Head of home inspectors board faces complaints from consumers
Head of home inspectors board faces complaints from consumers. The chairman of the state board that regulates Massachusetts home inspectors is in danger of losing his license and being ousted from the board after repeated consumer complaints of shoddy inspections that resulted in expensive nightmares for homebuyers, the Globe has learned. [Boston Globe — Front… Continue reading Head of home inspectors board faces complaints from consumers
Michael Stephens
Michael Stephens recommends 10 Things A Library Can Do to Boost their Techie Stuff* (*without breaking the bank). Go read it! [The Shifted Librarian]
KnowItAll: New list compiling search engine
KnowItAll: New list compiling search engine. New Scientist reports on a search engine being developed at the University of Washington, called KnowItAll. Using search engines to compile a list – like the top 50 greatest blues guitarists by record sales, say – involves a lot of drudge work because you have to visit many web… Continue reading KnowItAll: New list compiling search engine
Thinking, Thinking, Just Great
Thinking, Thinking, Just Great. Even though the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Thinker's Toolkit was developed as part of its Globalization Research Center curriculum, it's a quick and handy tool to use in connection with almost any work-related thought exercise. Based on the mnemonic WRAITEC — one of the trickiest mnemonics I've encountered — the… Continue reading Thinking, Thinking, Just Great