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The Non-Linear Winners October 30, 2008 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing The need for non-linear revenue models finally dawned on service providers. Having reached a significant size and scale, they need to be able to offer solutions or services to customers which are not just based on billing the time of their employees. This new paradigm is known as “non-linear revenue... Personalizing Collaborative Work … Individuals and Co-creation October 24, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: General Online Education and MBAs Social Networking Web 2.0 My friend / colleague Harold Jarche maintains an highly informative blog and website focused on elearning and the design and application of social computing to learning and effective knowledge work. He recently uncovered an interesting graphic that speak to the notion of the individual user operating... Get a cellphone, surf the Web, strengthen your family October 23, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Social Networking Wireless A new research study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has a surprising conclusion for those who worry that modern technology isolates people. It turns out that families with high rates of tech ownership and use are actually closer than their less-techie counterparts. As noted by... Why Internet communication is better than face-to-face, in some regards anyway October 22, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Social Networking I have been thinking lately of how generally I prefer to communicate with everyone online, much better than face-to-face (F2F). Here are some reasons why the Internet is better than F2F. The main advantage of Internet communications is that spatial and temporal barriers are removed, thus opening up... Digitizing natural handwriting from any surface - useful for clinicians? October 20, 2008 By Shahid N Shah Categories: eHealth As most of us in healthcare realized long ago, pen and paper is a very difficult technology to replace and compete with. It doesn’t matter how fancy our computers get, how nice tablets become, or how good the voice recognition features are, most healthcare workers spend a majority of their time on... Precision, projects and generating corporate support October 17, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General One of the interesting Dilbert moments I've had at various times was the recognition of the concern some folks have with degrees of uncertainty. If you're asked how much a project will cost or how much benefit it will provide and you come up with an answer like: "somewhere in the low 6 digits", many... Social Internetworking October 16, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Web 2.0 How the Internet Can Help Organizations Benefit From Social Networking When Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty followed the trend of employers banning Facebook at work and banned it for Ontario civil servants, he asserted “I just don't really see how it adds value to the work you do in the workplace” ... The Company as a Wirearchy … in 2013? October 14, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: General First, I want to clarify something for context. I do not believe that what I call "wirearchy" will replace hierarchy holus-bolus as an organizing principle (I have said and written this many times). Rather, I subscribe to Stan Davis’ perspective, outlined in the book Future Perfect (1987). "Networks... The 'Core Data Set' - How much Information is Really Needed? October 10, 2008 By Alan Brookstone Categories: eHealth I am writing this posting en-route from Singapore back to Vancouver. I have spent the past 10 days working with the Singapore Ministry of Health Holdings (the group designated to develop and implement Singapore's Electronic Health Record). Over this time, I have had an opportunity to meet a wide... The electric bike sounds good, but... October 9, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Green Tech The environment is hot, hot, hot and marketers and innovators are rushing to deliver green products to planet-conscious consumers. But as we all hurry towards this goal it's possible to see every green-tinted product as a good thing, and not all of them are. Case in point: Dorel Industries' improved... If security isn’t built in, it’s not there October 6, 2008 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: It's a common myth that big companies and famous celebrities have the best security because they have huge resources. But fame and brand recognition seem to be no substitutes for taking the time and effort to be proactive about security, online or otherwise. To illustrate, eight-time Olympic gold... Does putting an EMR into a primary care practice make life hell for a year? October 3, 2008 By Shahid N Shah Categories: eHealth A friend of mine sent me this link - "Beware of the EMR ‘Ponzi scheme,’ warns physician leader" — earlier this week. The article starts off by saying: Healthcare IT does not necessarily make life easier for primary care physicians, says a leader in the movement to make medicine more efficient and... Transparency on the March? October 2, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 We are, in my opinion, collectively watching the "mainstreaming" of a revolt against top-down decisions being imposed on citizens and decision-making processes. People interconnected on the Web are making this happen. Just one of many examples … CNN pulling up comments from online contributors (via... Ten Technologies that Can Revolutionize PCs October 1, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General ICT Hardware and Infrastructure My road trip has finally come to an end and I was at least able to catch up on my reading (if not my blogging). I saw an article about "Ten Technologies that can Revolutionize PCs". There have been posts about almost all of these at one time or another in this blog. They were: 1 - "Hundreds of cores... Please select a category:
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