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Subscribe to Backblog  Is your message clear? Twitter your business description April 30, 2009 By Paul Marshall Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Had an great conversation while attending the [RCM09] conference on the value of simplicity. Many organizations, including mine, can be accused of complicating their message and making it difficult for their employees, their customers, their prospects and their community at large to understand what... Outsourcing Security vs. Doing It In-House April 29, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General eHealth Outsourcing Security More companies, particularly those with over 1,000 employees, are increasing their security budgets and hiring chief information security officers, despite the recession, according to my colleagues in the industry. This makes sense, given that companies know they need to protect their business... Innovative multiple display with multiple input devices April 28, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General ICT Hardware and Infrastructure I'm one of those people who can never have enough display space (it's been found that adding an extra monitor can boost knowledge worker productivity by 20 percent to 30 percent); I have had a tablet PC since Microsoft's first Beta with Acer. So, when I saw this article about a HP PC prototype... Twelve Rules of B2B Sales Productivity (an ode to the economic downturn in 12 parts) April 26, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General When we combine the #1 issue for CEOs with today's economic downturn, what emerges are Twelve Rules of B2B Sales Productivity. Each by itself is a path to improved sales productivity. The most productive firms are those who live by a combination of all twelve: Rule 1: focus on outcomes. Being busy... The Role Of Procurement In A Recessionary Economy – How To Attain Savings Quickly – Part 2 April 24, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing In our previous post, we commented on the recent IACCM (International Association for Contract and Commercial Management) survey of procurement professionals, across a broad spectrum of industry verticals, on the most pressing issues facing them in the current recessionary environment. Similar to... Online Identity - Insecure on Social Media Websites April 23, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security Towards the end of my workshop on Identity Management at the Massive Technology Show, one audience member noted that on social media sites like Facebook, we are starting to see more granular capabilities to protect privacy. But these security measures may just be window dressing, in my opinion. This... 'Downchurning' in action April 22, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Wireless In a November post, this Blog predicted a trend called 'downchurning' among U.S. mobile subscribers. Here is the post for reference. Today there are some numbers reported by various US carriers that support the notion of downchurning as the recession deepens. Here is the article. Electronic prepaid... The Role of Procurement in A Recessionary Economy – How to Attain Savings Quickly April 21, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing IACCM (International Association for Contract and Commercial Management) recently commissioned a global study of procurement professionals, across a broad spectrum of industry verticals, on the most pressing issues facing them in the current recessionary environment. Almost 80 percent of the... Future Exploration Network Report … “Enterprise Social Network Strategy” April 20, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Fellow networked-world thinker, theorist and author Ross Dawson and colleagues carried out research sponsored by IBM about the views of australian executives regarding the use of social networks and social computing in the enterprise. The report titled “Enterprise Social Network Strategy” was... Texting your stolen car: Best. Idea. Ever. April 17, 2009 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General Security About 400 cars are stolen every day, StatsCan tells us, and for the most part the car companies shrug their shoulders. Cars are easy to steal and with a few exceptions - GM’s premium OnStar service being one - manufacturers haven’t done a lot to stop these thefts. So it’s lucky for us that Canada... Technology Intersections and Growth from a Downturn April 16, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General ICT Hardware and Infrastructure Software Companies I mentioned a while back that the next wave of computing will appear to be a product of the financial downturn. One of the reasons for this is not just the continued new technologies developed during the downturn whose deployment is delayed; it is the intersection of those technologies with other... New Study Shows B2B Sales Productivity Continues to Erode April 16, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General CSO Insights' 2009 Sales Performance Optimization Report is the latest industry report to confirm declines in B2B sales productivity and note that associated challenges faced by sales reps and their managers. For anyone looking to confirm their instincts that 'life just ain't what it used to be',... SIG Conference: Day 2 – Examining Offshore Measures & Encouraging Tech Advancement April 15, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing Tech and Business Events Captive vs. Outsource DuPont’s Frank Conway co-presented with our own Brian Smith on the considerations between captive and outsourced solutions, which they compared to “seeing in a sandstorm.” As Frank pointed out, the decision is often a journey that reflects executives’ mindsets. Having a captive... Why I Stopped Stumbling April 14, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Yesterday eBay (EBAY) announced that it was selling its StumbleUpon subsidiary to the original Founders for an undisclosed price. When I first found StumbleUpon I became an immediate fan and downloaded the Stumble toolbar in 2006. I spent the next couple of years or so Stumbling throughout the... CanadianEMR Slide Presentations Receive Thousands of views on SlideShare April 9, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Over the past 2 years, a number of my PowerPoint presentations have been published to the web and embedded in the CanadianEMR Blog. According to SlideShare statistics, these presentations have received thousands of views. To review any of the presentations, see below. CanadianEMR - Preliminary 2007... SIG Conference: Day 2 – eSourcing Insights and BPO Innovations April 9, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing eSourcing: SAP and WE Energies provided some excellent, practical insights on how eSourcing auctions have been successfully conducted, and how they were able to diffuse the frequent arguments that reverse auctions destroy value. As we have noted in the past, reverse auctions and other sourcing... Everything I Know About Security, I Learned From Barack Obama April 9, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security I bet you didn't know that Barack Obama was a cyber security expert. The popular American President has been many things throughout an impressive career: community leader, best-selling author, political machine. And on further analysis of some of his statements he's made over the years, it's clear... Mesh Day 1 - Too Wired April 8, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Tech and Business Events Couldn't make it to Mesh for day two as the babysitter didn't show, but fortunately today's episode of Tyra show is about Twitter addiction and Facebook breakups, so it's almost the same but with Tyra's sassy attitude. Yesterday, the first day of Mesh Conference was my third year attending Mesh and... Help Getting Started with Web Accessibility April 7, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General I'm working on my thesis on web accessibility, I'm supposed to be writing it up now but I can't seem to end my literature review as there are so many resources on this topic. I think the lack of one central source of necessary information and the unorganized, dated, and at times dubious information... Innovation in Management for an Interconnected Environment? Look to Organizational Development Principles April 6, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General More and more frequently we hear the notion that we are living in conditions (often characterized as "perpetual beta") that demand continuous learning. Where better to look for how to ‘manage’ than to the principles that underpin development ? (I’m playing with Scribd, uploading materials I have... SIG Conference: Day 1 Review – First Impressions April 3, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing Tech and Business Events The 35th Sourcing Interests Group kicked off its summit yesterday in Baltimore, MD. There are over 325 attendees this year, up slightly from last fall. The healthy attendance at a time when discretionary travel has been restricted across the board underscores the critical importance of current... Kaboose (KAB.TO) clatters into the sunset. April 2, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Today, Kaboose announced that it was in the process of selling all of its assets to two parties. Barclays Private Equity Group has offered to buy the assets of Bounty Group Limited for 54 million british pound sterling and Disney Online has offered to buy the Kaboose online assets for C$23.3... Conficker Worm Making You Squirm? April 1, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security As you already may be aware, the Conficker worm threatens all computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system on April 1. As an indication of just how threatening this worm is, the French air force has grounded its jets and the UK parliamentary IT network is scrambling to fix what appears to... Please select a category:
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