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Rules For Radical CIOs: Part 2

June 17, 2013 -- By Coverlet Meshing

How do Saul Alinsky's rules for activists apply to tech executives? Let us keep counting the ways.

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How To Close Gaps In Campus Apps

June 17, 2013 -- By John Barnes

To close the programming applications gap on campus, you often must close several other gaps first.

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Sharing Electronic Medical Records Still Too Hard

June 17, 2013 -- By Chris Murphy

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner and other health execs aren't thrilled with the state of EHR interoperability. What are today's big barriers?

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Spotting The Right Time To Innovate

June 17, 2013 -- By Ryan Pikkel,Brian Quinn

Everyone likes to talk about changing the game, but how do you actually see and shift the field?

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20 People Who Changed Tech: Tom Watson Jr.

June 17, 2013 -- By Howard Anderson

Watson's early, $5 billion bet on computers made IBM an institution and moved him out of the shadow of his iconic father.

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Digital Business Requires Dose Of Humility

June 17, 2013 -- By Chris Murphy

The payoffs and opportunities are far from clear.

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Why Microsoft Won't Release Office For The iPad

June 15, 2013 -- By Michael Endler

Microsoft finally brought Office to iOS. Make no mistake: Its goal is to sell Office 365, not help Apple users. As long as Windows 8 struggles,...

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Big Data Pioneers Get Big For Their Britches

June 14, 2013 -- By Doug Henschen

DataStax and Cloudera say NoSQL databases and Hadoop are the future, but don't count out Oracle and company just yet.

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Should All High School Students Learn Programming?

June 14, 2013 -- By Michael Fitzgerald

Google, Microsoft, Oracle and other tech giants propose that computer science become a required proficiency in Massachusetts public schools to...

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Stop Being A Hated IT Overlord

June 14, 2013 -- By Jonathan Feldman

Recent research suggests that only 30% of workers are fully engaged in their job. We can't fix corporate dysfunction until we break down...

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