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Eric Lundquist

5 Innovative Ideas For Enterprise CIOs

November 19, 2012

The role of the CIO is changing rapidly. These innovations could help you keep pace and increase the value of your business.

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Rob Preston

Is Technology Innovation Too Incremental?

November 19, 2012

Two prominent big thinkers think it is. But I’m not buying their unsupported arguments.

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Eric Openshaw

Social Analytics Isn't Just For Social Networks

November 15, 2012

Broadly applied across all company functions, social analytics can focus attention on the most pressing internal performance issues.

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Art Wittmann

As AMD Explores Options, Intel Pain Looms

November 15, 2012

Moore's Law is changing the rules of the game again. This time AMD and Intel could both be on the losing team.

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Jennifer Priestley

Big Data Education: 3 Steps Universities Must Take

November 15, 2012

How can universities help meet the growing demand for data scientists? Consider this advice from a professor working in the trenches with...

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Kevin Casey

SMBs Spending on IT, Not New IT Hires

November 14, 2012

Small and midsize business IT budgets continue to grow but hiring remains stagnant. Here's why IT folk should embrace the trend.

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Paul McDougall

Sinofsky's Exit Points To Major Microsoft Shakeup

November 14, 2012

Windows chief's sudden departure comes amid questions about Windows 8 sales and Microsoft's hardware plans.

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Chris Murphy

Why Ford Courts Electrical And Software Engineers

November 13, 2012

Ford CTO Paul Mascarenas discusses the company's challenges in recruiting and in developing products, as software becomes more critical to...

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Mark Johnson

Hurricane Sandy: Big Data Predicted Big Power Outages

November 12, 2012

What can be learned for future weather events? For starters, simulations must happen quickly and no single forecasting model will do.

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Eric Lundquist

IT's Future: Less Building, More Bundling

November 12, 2012

With human resources, marketing and other departments going in different technological directions, IT's new mission is to tie all the company's...

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Patrick Houston

Innovation Lesson: Disrupt Before You're Disrupted

November 12, 2012

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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Russ Edelman

What Enterprise Social Networks Lack: Purpose

November 09, 2012

Communities based on shared interests are fine for consumer social networks. At work, only a community of purpose is worth our time.

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Paul Cerrato

Health IT: How Not To Get Hired

November 09, 2012

Brains aren't enough to land that dream job. Humility and a willingness to learn are just as crucial.

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Jonathan Feldman

Project Management Offices: A Waste Of Money?

November 08, 2012

The risks of starting a PMO have never been greater, new research shows. After years of observing project management, I agree.

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Eric Lundquist

Nate Silver's Big Data Lessons For The Enterprise

November 08, 2012

Big data analytics have proven their mettle in predicting baseball and election success. How can you make them work for your business?

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Eric Lundquist

5 Items Should Top Obama's Technology Agenda

November 07, 2012

From infrastructure to tech education, here's what I want to see on the to-do list for the next four years.

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Chris Murphy

How Do You Survive The Innovation Hamster Wheel?

November 07, 2012

This is how two tech leaders do it, and we'd like to hear more tactics from you.

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Art Wittmann

What's Killing APM?

November 07, 2012

App performance management is seen as less important than it was two years ago, partly because vendors haven't kept up.

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Eric Lundquist

LinkedIn: How To Take Advantage of Recent Changes

November 06, 2012

LinkedIn understands the value of a business conversation. Consider these tips to make sure you're part of it.

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Chris Murphy

Election 2012: Where Are The PowerPoint Slides?

November 05, 2012

Our presidential candidates act like they're campaigning in 1912, not 2012. Did Ross Perot ruin charts forever?

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Jonathan Feldman

5 Ways To Survive The Coming IT Apocalypse

November 05, 2012

We IT leaders say we believe in the new ways. But we won't survive if our actions don't match our words.

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Rob Preston

Are We Giving CIOs An Inferiority Complex?

November 05, 2012

CIOs need to be technical, without apology, just as chief medical officers need not apologize for their grounding in medicine.

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Mark Johnson

Big Data Education: When Should It Start?

November 02, 2012

When elementary school students find data that interests them, they're ready to learn basic statistics concepts. The key: make data analysis...

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Howard Anderson

Why Private Clouds Will Prevail

November 02, 2012

Stu Laura, our irascible CIO, discusses the promise and pressures of private clouds.

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Jacob Morgan

6 Ways To Build Management Support For Collaboration

November 01, 2012

Winning upper management support for collaboration makes a big difference. If you don't have it, here's how to get it.

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