APIs Hurl Corporations Across Digital Divide Executive Clan Editor's Blog 5/22/2013 1 comment Organizations quick to adopt APIs, digital marketing, apps, and data analytics are gaining big advantages over their slower competitors, a new study finds.
Checking In With Choice Hotels' New CIO Todd Davis Executive Clan Editor's Blog 5/1/2013 8 comments Choice Hotels made an early decision to embrace the web and the cloud, a decision that is reaping rewards for newly named CIO and former CTO Todd Davis.
Today's 7DEE Class: Secure Cloud-Based Analytics Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/3/2013 Post a comment Join us today at 2:00 p.m. ET for our latest seminar in the 7 Days of Executive Education (7DEE) series, as Dion Hinchcliff, chief strategy officer at Dachis Group, leads us through "Securing Cloud-Based Analytics."
B2B Firms Pin Sales on Pinterest Executive Clan Editor's Blog 3/20/2013 3 comments Pinterest isn't just a cute scrapbooking site anymore. In fact, it's a powerful sales and branding social media tool for both B2B and B2C.
Federal IT Departments: Stop Wasting Our Money Executive Clan Editor's Blog 3/13/2013 15 comments Federal IT departments can save almost $16 billion if they add more manufacturers to their infrastructures, a new MeriTalk study shows.
Smartphones Enlighten, Enrich Warehouse Operations Executive Clan Editor's Blog 2/13/2013 6 comments Mobile warehouse control systems (WCS) pay for themselves on average in just over a year. But many distribution centers aren't using them -- or have out-dated systems in place.
IE Radio: Innovating With Vanguard CIO John Marcante Executive Clan Editor's Blog 1/24/2013 Post a comment Marcante talks with the Internet Evolution community about how IT fits into the mutual fund company with $2 trillion in assets. Hope to see you there today -- or catch the replay later.
The Dangers of Keeping Corporate Secrets Executive Clan Editor's Blog 1/23/2013 7 comments In our social media world, there are plenty of professionals who must still keep confidences. The strain of secrecy, however, can be deadly.
Bonobos Aces Website Performance Test Executive Clan Editor's Blog 1/17/2013 4 comments Taking time to test websites before they launch saves embarrassing -- and expensive -- crashes when you really need them to work perfectly.
BI Gets Mobile & Collaborative Executive Clan Editor's Blog 11/28/2012 15 comments Enterprises are enhancing BI with collaboration and mobile capabilities, looking to bolster their analytics investments and return on investment.
It's Time to Connect With Videoconferencing Executive Clan Editor's Blog 11/7/2012 15 comments Studies keep telling us videoconferencing makes people more productive -- and now is the time for companies to invest in the infrastructure to support this collaboration-enabling technology.
IBM: Give Customers a Seat in the C-Suite Executive Clan Editor's Blog 9/5/2012 7 comments Laura Mercier Cosmetics, Lenovo, and Bank of America are working with suppliers and partners to enchant customers, according to speakers at this week's IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit.
Enterprises Lag in Governance, Risk & Compliance Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/29/2012 6 comments Enterprise GRC isn't just about security or internal auditing anymore. But many firms aren't taking meaningful action to broaden its scope as much as needed.
BPM Could Change More Than Your Value Chain Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/22/2012 7 comments The integration of business process management with mobility, social networking, cloud computing, and other elements could lead to some big surprises for corporate leaders.
How Big-Data Is Changing Big Pharma (& Other Sectors) Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/8/2012 7 comments A new report addresses how big-data, social networking, and mobility aren't just affecting pharmaceutical companies (and by extension other kinds of businesses). They're changing them fundamentally.
FBI Sentinel: Case Study in Executive Failure Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/1/2012 7 comments The FBI has finally rolled out its new case management system -- 12 years late, and hundreds of millions over budget. It's time for a management review.
Why Getting Older Is a Workplace Superpower Executive Clan Editor's Blog 7/25/2012 49 comments We're levelheaded, we have connections, and we have experience re-inventing ourselves. Also, if you're looking for someone to get those kids off your lawn, we're your guys.
Is Your Plan Going South? Pivot! Executive Clan Editor's Blog 7/11/2012 12 comments The ability to do an about-face in strategic planning is key to succeeding in any business endeavor.
When No Boss Is the Best Boss Executive Clan Editor's Blog 6/20/2012 22 comments Some enterprises are putting theories of a flat, hierarchical organization to the test -- and apparently finding success.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE