Fortune 500 companies lose at least $31.5 billion a year by failing to share knowledge. A Knowledge Management System (KMS) can help companies significantly reduce these costs.

After observing and writing about CEOs who do not leverage their CIOs to propel their organizations forward, it was very refreshing to learn about the great CEO/CIO partnership at Kaiser Permanente at this year’s World Health Congress held in Maryland.

Take a trip down memory lane and imagine, if you will, a system-on-a-chip with Apple IIe-like specs -- 4KB of RAM and 32KB of flash. Add some modern niceties like an ARM Cortex-M0+ 32-bit pipeline, 12-bit DAC, and low-power UART, and you have Freescale's recently unveiled Kinetis KL02, which the company calls "the world's smallest ARM Powered MCU."

A lot of organizations operate with very limited insights into their clients’ relationship with the business itself. Even in this data-driven era, they aren’t using analytical capabilities to develop products and channels for their clients. They want to build strong relationships with their clients, but their understanding of customer needs and preferences is underdeveloped or even non-existent.

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, armchair detectives on Reddit and 4chan tried to "crowdsolve" the case by analyzing photographs of the scene. Reactions were mixed -- as were results.