...of them. One more problem with insisting on relevant case studies: They completely preclude innovation. In case the reason isn’t obvious and self-explanatory, innovation means coming up with something new...…
...which makes MS Office integration a big plus for making communication, collaboration, and information management easier. Right now, like it or not, the list of qualifying products appears to consist...…
...only” installation option, but synchronization requires “Corporate/Workgroup” installation instead. So I switched over to Corporate/Workgroup and voilà ! … CompuServe 2000 stopped working. Some genius at Microsoft decided IMAP e-mail...…
...“solution aversion,” (and thanks to Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, for bringing this phenomenon to my attention). Solution aversion is what happens when the solution to a...…
...over, I hear IT professionals complain about people in the business using Excel as a database. And, over and over again I also hear IT professionals explain how dangerous it...…
...Exclusivity is simultaneously the easiest and hardest motivator to use. It’s easy if you’re interested in your employees as individual human beings. If, on the other hand, you think of...…
...isn’t in your future, something else new, different, and more sophisticated probably is. Is your IT organization equipped to recognize it, incubate it, and put it into production? We’re in...…
...trouble if they don’t get it from you if you’re in a position to deliver it. CIOs in companies where this is part of executive culture know to include an...…
...You’re paid (in part) to be able to put it all together — to understand what everyone tells you and turn it into a complete picture. Don’t compete. Start down...…
...that what’s troubling you, bunky? You aren’t the only one. In one form or another, lots of companies are discovering that “lean and mean” means there’s no spare capacity to...…