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Innovation Lesson: Disrupt Before You're Disrupted
November 12, 2012 09:06 AM Even innovators struggle with the pace of change. Here are some of the ways Silicon Valley companies like LinkedIn push the edge without falling off.
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New Face Of IT: Line Of Business Execs
October 01, 2012 09:10 AM Without a CIO or a corporate IT staff, Jennifer Trzepacz deployed cloud-based tools to help LivingSocial grow by 4,100 full-time employees in one year.
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Tech Startups Reinvent Basic Business Models
September 18, 2012 09:06 AM Mobile, social, and local have been the hottest trends in tech. But TechCrunch Disrupt panel shows that the action today is in enterprise tech.
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IT Free Agency: A Migraine For Managers
September 11, 2012 11:21 AM Knowledge workers continue to stampede out the door and onto their own. It's a trend that will only intensify, and it could put you at a competitive disadvantage.
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Apple-Samsung Case Hurts You, Me, The Economy
July 31, 2012 08:36 AM Both companies deserve our wrath as their patent trial gets under way. Why? They're propagating an intellectual property war with immense collateral damage.
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Yahoo Heroine Mayer Boards Ship Lost In Space
July 20, 2012 11:06 AM As dramatic narrative, it doesn't get much better than this. Here's why we must root for Yahoo’s heroic young CEO to save the day.
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Why Big Is Bad When It Comes To Data
July 19, 2012 01:15 PM Calling it "big data" doesn't do it justice. Gushing data would be far more accurate.
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What Food Trucks Can Teach IT Pros
July 11, 2012 08:30 AM From the growing caravan of rolling restaurants in cities like San Francisco, three trends emerge that even big companies and their IT pros should taste.
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Intel Puts Future On Exhibit
July 03, 2012 08:28 AM Imagine life without house keys or using an entire wall as a touch display. Walk through an exhibit of some of Intel's most intriguing research projects to date.
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When Data Is A Matter Of Life Or Death
June 26, 2012 11:28 AM Healthcare analytics startup offers insights into how to develop the numbers when it counts for everything.
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Lean Startup Concept No Silver Bullet
June 22, 2012 08:30 AM The latest business management craze is called "The Lean Startup." Don't swallow this lite philosophy without asking some critical questions first.
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PCs Tell Tablets: We're Not Dead Yet
June 13, 2012 09:30 AM The hoopla coming out of Apple this week notwithstanding, the PC is very much alive in a post-PC world. Here's why.
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Watch Out: I've Become The Boss Of Me
May 31, 2012 10:10 AM Cloud services are helping to create a new wave of super-powered, cell-sized businesses. Thanks to us, you may have to manage quite differently.
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Yahoo ResuMess: The Trouble With Entitlement Culture
May 21, 2012 12:00 PM The resume drama for Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson had a quiet player: a corporate culture that seeks fairness but produces employees who feel entitled. Here's what his successor, and all managers, must know about that problem.
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3 Lessons From Yahoo's Meltdown, From An Insider
May 11, 2012 10:40 AM A former Yahoo exec who was laid off offers insights from the company's five-year drive to self-destruction.
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Framehawk Says BYOD Is Not Rocket Science
May 08, 2012 09:56 AM Startup Framehawk, which counts a former NASA physicist as a co-founder, uses desktop virtualization and its own communications protocol to safely extend corporate apps and data to tablets and smartphones.
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3 Examples: Visual Technologies Change The Rules
April 30, 2012 11:27 AM Businesses of all shapes and sizes will soon be held to a higher standard of customer experience as they try to sell products, or convey content of any kind.
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10 Must-See Tech Product Ideas From Startups
April 25, 2012 08:30 AM Can you spot tech's next big thing? Check out ten hot new ideas, fresh from the Demo show, that could impact the way you work and play.
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What You Won't Learn From 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs
April 18, 2012 01:37 PM Our billionaire-obessed society loves to ballyhoo the (rarely) successful mega-startup and its leader. But most of us can't start with a blank slate at our companies.
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IT Should Prepare For Cloud Startup Downpour
April 17, 2012 08:35 AM Venture capitalists are voting for cloud startups in staggering numbers. Start developing a rigorous process now for picking enterprise IT cloud tools and vendors.
Bio
Patrick Houston is a former SVP for a new media startup, a GM at Yahoo, and editor-in-chief at CNET.com. He is co-founder of MediaArchitechs, which offers strategic product, content and business development consulting to technology-driven media companies. He can be reached at patrick.houston@mediaarchitechs.com.
By The Numbers
Base: 417 respondents at organizations using or planning to deploy data analytics, BI or statistical analysis software
Data: InformationWeek 2013 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey of 541 business technology professionals, October 2012
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