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Fri, Sep 26, 2008 16:03 EDT
When It Comes to Provisioning Technology, One Size Does Not Fit All
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Posted by: Abbie Lundberg in Best Practices Topic: Enterprise ManagementBlog: Difference Engine
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The ways in which companies provide technology to their employees is changing. As Bruce Rogow puts, it, we're moving from a world of "Bauhaus" IT (in which IT tells technology users -- and
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Remembering Michael Hammer, Father of Reengineering
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Posted by: Abbie Lundberg in News Topic: Enterprise ManagementBlog: Difference Engine
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Michael Hammer has died at the age of 60. I got the news yesterday in an e-mail from his Rabbi, forwarded to me by a friend. This has thrown me for a loop for several reasons.First, reading the
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Are More CIOs Getting Fired?
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Posted by: Abbie Lundberg in Soapbox Topic: Enterprise ManagementBlog: Difference Engine
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As long as there have been CIOs, there have been people claiming that IT executives get fired a lot more than any of their C level colleagues. In the early '90s, some sharp-witted observer quipped
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Can Big Companies Innovate?
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Posted by: Abbie Lundberg in Best Practices Topic: Enterprise ManagementBlog: Difference Engine
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It's conventional wisdom that big organizations aren't as innovative as smaller ones. At best, innovation is harder for them. At worst, big companies crush innovation before it has time to interfere
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Digital Natives in Our Midst
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Posted by: Abbie Lundberg in Soapbox Topic: Enterprise ManagementBlog: Difference Engine
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If there’s anyone under 30 working in your company, you’ve got Digital Natives. Marc Prensky coined this term in 2001, in a paper titled, “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.” His starting
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Web 2.0 and Social Networking for Business: Take the Plunge
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Posted by: Abbie Lundberg in Soapbox Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Difference Engine
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Executives who want to understand the value of social networking or other web 2.0 technologies should just get out there and try it.More and more companies are offering some type of web 2.0 or
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Innovation, Disruption and Riding the Waves of Change: CIO's New Partnership with LinkedIn
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Posted by: Abbie Lundberg in Soapbox Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Difference Engine
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When we announced our new partnership with LinkedIn last week, it provoked a flurry of controversy within the B2B media space (you can see the highlights of the partnership in a letter from our
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The Difference Engine, invented in 1821, was an early precursor to the modern computer. Today, IT is making a difference in every aspect of work, play, politics and life. This blog reports on interesting new applications of technology and the people behind them. It comments on the changes taking place and what they mean for decision-making around and management of IT.
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