The Danger of Recruiting With LinkedIn Christine Parizo 8/31/2012 59 comments LinkedIn's Hiring Solutions suite is a bestseller. But the site's redesigned résumé format could make it an enterprise HR liability.
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.
How to Fix Klout Seth Grimes 8/29/2012 29 comments Is reducing social-platform popularity to a simplistic score more than a weak indicator of any real form of influence? Klout thinks so, but it needs to fix that.
Dale Potter, SVP, The Ottawa Hospital Smarter IT Clan Radio 8/24/2012 147 comments Dale Potter is senior vice president of strategy and transformation at The Ottawa Hospital, one of Canada's largest teaching and research hospitals.
Honeymoon Is Over for Social Network Investors Chris Poley 8/24/2012 105 comments Early investors and insiders are cashing in their shares of Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga, signaling a loss of perceived value in these social networks.
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.
Clouds Blameless for Most US Data Loss Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/20/2012 2 comments A closer look at data about security breaches in the US and cloud use raises questions about laying blame on clouds.
IBM to Buy Solid-State Storage Supplier TMS IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/16/2012 29 comments Big Blue upped the ante in solid-state enterprise storage with the planned purchase of a key player designed to help with big-data systems.
Why Private Clouds Aren't Really Private Stephen Lawton 8/16/2012 20 comments Cloud services present security challenges to enterprise customers, but they are typically surmountable. Sometimes a service is even more secure than on-premises servers.
NASA: 'Use the Right Cloud for the Right Job' Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/13/2012 5 comments Finally, NASA's manager for data services answers all questions about the agency's use of commercial and homegrown clouds – and discusses what really happened during the Curiosity mission.
How to Know When to Make Big IT Changes IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/10/2012 2 comments Understanding when to move toward or away from a particular technology or approach is an important skill for IT professionals.
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.
Golden Parachutes Internet Evolution Executive Clan Poll 8/8/2012 Post a comment Some tech firms have paid millions in separation agreements to CEOs the board has fired. Does this need to change?
NASA Rides the Cloud Beyond Mars Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/7/2012 Post a comment The Curiosity mission highlights just one of several uses NASA is making of cloud services, both commercial and internally developed.
NASA's Curiosity: One for the Nerds Internet Evolution Poll 8/7/2012 13 comments NASA has suffered much past criticism for its technological glitches and outright failures. The success of the Curiosity Mars mission may have turned that tide. What do you think?
Customer Sessions at the IBM Smarter Commerce Summit Todd Watson 8/1/2012 Post a comment IBM's upcoming Smarter Commerce Summit to be held down in Orlando, September 5-7, will offer over 150 business and practitioner breakout sessions aimed at providing insight and resources for connecting with customers more effectively.
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.
The Danger of Recruiting With LinkedIn Christine Parizo 8/31/2012 59 comments LinkedIn's Hiring Solutions suite is a bestseller. But the site's redesigned résumé format could make it an enterprise HR liability.
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.
How to Fix Klout Seth Grimes 8/29/2012 29 comments Is reducing social-platform popularity to a simplistic score more than a weak indicator of any real form of influence? Klout thinks so, but it needs to fix that.
Dale Potter, SVP, The Ottawa Hospital Smarter IT Clan Radio 8/24/2012 147 comments Dale Potter is senior vice president of strategy and transformation at The Ottawa Hospital, one of Canada's largest teaching and research hospitals.
Honeymoon Is Over for Social Network Investors Chris Poley 8/24/2012 105 comments Early investors and insiders are cashing in their shares of Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga, signaling a loss of perceived value in these social networks.
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.
Clouds Blameless for Most US Data Loss Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/20/2012 2 comments A closer look at data about security breaches in the US and cloud use raises questions about laying blame on clouds.
IBM to Buy Solid-State Storage Supplier TMS IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/16/2012 29 comments Big Blue upped the ante in solid-state enterprise storage with the planned purchase of a key player designed to help with big-data systems.
Why Private Clouds Aren't Really Private Stephen Lawton 8/16/2012 20 comments Cloud services present security challenges to enterprise customers, but they are typically surmountable. Sometimes a service is even more secure than on-premises servers.
NASA: 'Use the Right Cloud for the Right Job' Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/13/2012 5 comments Finally, NASA's manager for data services answers all questions about the agency's use of commercial and homegrown clouds – and discusses what really happened during the Curiosity mission.
How to Know When to Make Big IT Changes IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/10/2012 2 comments Understanding when to move toward or away from a particular technology or approach is an important skill for IT professionals.
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.
Golden Parachutes Internet Evolution Executive Clan Poll 8/8/2012 Post a comment Some tech firms have paid millions in separation agreements to CEOs the board has fired. Does this need to change?
NASA Rides the Cloud Beyond Mars Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/7/2012 Post a comment The Curiosity mission highlights just one of several uses NASA is making of cloud services, both commercial and internally developed.
NASA's Curiosity: One for the Nerds Internet Evolution Poll 8/7/2012 13 comments NASA has suffered much past criticism for its technological glitches and outright failures. The success of the Curiosity Mars mission may have turned that tide. What do you think?
Out of Curiosity? Todd Watson 8/6/2012 1 comment Turbo applauds this weekend's triumphant Mars landing by NASA.
Customer Sessions at the IBM Smarter Commerce Summit Todd Watson 8/1/2012 Post a comment IBM's upcoming Smarter Commerce Summit to be held down in Orlando, September 5-7, will offer over 150 business and practitioner breakout sessions aimed at providing insight and resources for connecting with customers more effectively.
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.
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
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.
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.
Dale Potter, SVP, The Ottawa Hospital
