Digital transformation and the high performance enterprise
Digital business transformation is the latest buzzword. These stats demonstrate how to gain real business benefit from the trend.
Is ‘marketing’ ready for digital transformation?
Research explains how marketers and the CMO can become leaders in digital business transformation.
MIT CIO leadership awards now accepting applications
Everyone knows I am a strong advocate of Chief Information Officers. It’s a tough job fraught with pressure from management that demands simultaneous cost cutting and innovation along with increasingly sophisticated business requirements for technology-enabled transformation. Despite these challenges and many more, there are great CIOs using technology to drive significant and meaningful business improvements. […]
MIT Traced Twitter’s Rise Through Conventional Social Nets
Researchers at MIT have concluded from a research study that the spread of Twitter occurred through traditional social channels. That might not seem earth shaking because, well, how else would a new social technology spread? As the report notes, “MIT researchers who studied the growth of the newly hatched Twitter from 2006 to 2009 say […]
Costs of running communication networks about to tumble?
Photo credit IronRodArt I saw a report on the Green Data Center Blog today that a new industry group called GreenTouch has been formed with the express aim of reducing the amount of energy communications networks (including the Internet) use. In fact their Global Mission is to, by 2015: deliver the architecture, specifications and roadmap […]
Tuesday Link Roundup
– The Merc takes a look at the diminished luster of stock options for compensation. There’s two things here, the first being that between AMT and option accounting rule changes the attractiveness of options for employees and employers has taken a big hit. Most people in Silicon Valley, and the tech industry more broadly, understand […]
