Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

It wasn’t long ago that one of the most solid and unquestioned assumptions of enterprise software was that users sat at a desk in front of a desktop (or sometimes laptop) computer. As such, maintaining a fleet of almost exclusively Windows-based computers was sometimes a larger task than selecting, developing, and running the enterprise software on which work was performed.

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A CIO's Voice

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

'The dynamics of getting a team to work together boils done to one simple truth – the team needs a common goal. Everyone on your staff needs to be competent, and everyone needs to trust each others. That’s why some managers can get things done with just a telephone and an email account; while others can have all the tools they could possibly need and still cannot get it the simplest task completed.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Yesterday I participated in a Twitter party hosted by @TheOnlineMom * to discuss the questions: How much do we trust our kids online? Can we monitor them closely and build trust? The focus of the discussion was, as the topic questions hint at, how do we keep our kids safe? How do we protect them from all of the evils lurking out there waiting to swoop in and take advantage of them?

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

"You can check documents out any time you like, but they can never leave." [With apologies to Don Henley and Glenn Frey]. OK, it's technically a bit imprecise, but it was the metaphor that popped into my head when I learned a third new term/concept in January at my colleague Chris McNulty's SharePoint Saturday Hartford presentation about Enterprise Content Management: "Content is King.".

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Advertiser: GEP

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The lovely pace of change in the media world isn’t slowing down any…. One day after Apple launched its long-expected subscription service, Google announced its One Pass content payment system. Here is a quick comparison. - What they are. They are both payment and delivery platforms for content sales and subscriptions. - Delivery platforms. Apple’s platform is for content delivered to apps that are sold in the Apple iTunes store, so only to iPad, iPhone and iTouch products.

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A CIO's Voice

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

'With the recent change in government in Egypt, I have been thinking of all the events that I have witnessed. While the list is not all encompasing, these are the events that stood in my life that I remember. Energy crisis of 1979. Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters. Y2k. Attempted assignation of Ronald Reagan. Attempted assignation of Pope John Paul.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Download Chapter 10 of Living Networks on Liberating Individuals. Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s : HAVES AND HAVE NOTS. Across communities, nations, and the world, there is a keen risk of increasing separation between those who have access to technology, tools, and basic needs, and those who do not. This is not inevitable. However it will require concerted action around the world to avoid an increasing schism between us.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

John Winsor , founder of Victors & Spoils , the world’s first crowdsourced agency, gave the opening keynote at our Future of Crowdsourcing Summit in September last November. It was fascinating to hear about how he had brought together an extraordinarily talented distributed team, and convinced major brands such as Harley-Davidson, GAP, Levi’s, and Virgin America to use a crowdsourcing approach.

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