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Subscribe to Backblog  What Makes Great Sales Managers Great? November 27, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General Recently had the pleasure of reading Philippe LeBarron’s book on the habits and practices of top-performing sales managers. In his view, great sales managers make productive things happen. They do so through a unique combination of great people skills, and great inspecting skills. They’re backed by... CEO Series: Interview with Andrew Osis, CEO Multiplied Media - developers of the Poynt Mobile App November 26, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Software Companies This is the first in a series of interviews conducted with CEOs of interesting Canadian technology companies. The intent of this project is to provide investors with a unique understanding of what various companies are doing - directly from the top dog. Hopefully, the interviews conducted over the... WSJ on why work tech sucks November 25, 2009 By Neil McIntyre Categories: General You’ll have to hurry before Rupert puts it behind a paywall and blocks Google from indexing it, but the WSJ had a good article recently about technology in the workplace. At the office, you’ve got a sluggish computer running aging software, and the email system routinely badgers you to delete... Socio Technical Systems Design Principles Live On, Says Dachis Group November 24, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking An extract from David Armano’s recent post highlighting his and Jeff Dachis’ presentation at Web2.0 Expo … The presentation below courtesy of the "embed" code provided in the post. -- It’s Time to Clobber Social Media (And Get Down To Business) We broke down what we think will be the building blocks of... Leverage Outsourcing Governance to Reduce Value Leakage from Your Outsourcing Contracts November 23, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing Outsourcing governance is the business of ensuring that all of the potential value of an outsourcing contract is actually achieved. During our 20 years of helping companies maximize the value of their outsourcing contracts, we have identified these TPI Top 5 observations related to the mission... Green, Computer Aided Persuasion and the Interface at the Edge November 20, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General An article in New Scientist explores how user interface researchers are investigating computer aided persuasion as a technique to assist people to make choices. To me this is a perfect example of understanding how to use the edge computing interface to shift behavior. "Researchers at Eindhoven... Google Health Study - Nov 2009. How do Physicians use the Internet? November 19, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth One feature of Twitter that I find particularly useful is the ability to identify lists of individuals with similar interests and review information that they have identified. It is like having an army of researchers at one's fingertips. This particular study, conducted by Google Health in August 20... Teachers’ Presence November 18, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Online Education and MBAs Having studied at an online university for the past couple years and now in a class where e-learning is a main theme, I'm becoming increasingly familiar with the challenges of engendering successful learning via online mechanisms. e-Learning can take many forms, but it seems to often rely heavily on... Google Docs to surpass Office in a year November 17, 2009 By Neil McIntyre Categories: General Software Companies Now this is interesting. Comments from Google’s president of the enterprise division indicate he believes that Google Docs will “reach a ‘point of capability’ next year that it will serve the ‘vast majority’s needs.’” He acknowledged that Docs is currently “much less mature” than Google Mail or... Three ways to thrive November 16, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Jim Miller and Mateen Greenway (a couple of other fellows here at HP) just posted an article on hp.com about Three Ways to Thrive in an Uncertain Economic Upturn. These are a different perspective of some of the same issues Jean and I talked about in our Innovation During a Downturn podcast a few... More on the Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Canada - With a Link to Mark McQueen November 13, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment In August I posted an opinion on why R&D subsidies in the technology sector are currently an ineffective tool to support technology innovations and posed some general solutions to re-energize investment into all industries that commercialize Intellectual Property (I/P), including information... Getting Rid of the Google Website Warning November 12, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security We've had such good response and interest in our white paper on "How to Remove the Google Website Warning" that we wanted to re-publicize this useful resource on our security site for newer readers. To provide a little background, we first started looking into the Google security warning when a... Consolidation in EMR Market - QHR Technologies to Acquire Clinicare November 10, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth November 9, 2009 - QHR Technologies Inc. (parent company of Optimed) today announced the intention to acquire Clinicare Corporation, a privately held Calgary based EMR company. Operations will consolidate under Optimed. QHR is acquiring Clinicare for $5,000,000, with an adjustment for net working... What’s New About Social Business Design ? November 9, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 There has recently been a spate of aggregation of the higher-profile individuals in the Enterprise 2.0 field, resulting in the launch of groups like (for example) Dachis and Altimeter, and the coming together of Ross Mayfield’s SocialText with Dion Hinchcliffe’s capabilities. The term “social... Toronto City Innovation Conference November 6, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Earlier this week I was the keynote speaker for the Toronto Innovation Showcase. One of the things the mayor announced was the Toronto Open project. This activity opens up much of the cities information for the residents of Toronto to mashup into applications. They also announced an effort to... Organizational Change and Risk at the 2009 PMI Global Congress November 5, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing I attended the Project Management Institute’s Global Congress this month, in Orlando, Florida. I am particularly interested in Organizational Change Management and Risk Management, so I selected sessions primarily focused on these things. Many of the sessions focused on what I call “voodoo” change... Why B2B Sales Productivity Could Use a Dose of Design Thinking November 4, 2009 By John Cousineau Categories: General Tim Brown's TED talk in July 2009 at Oxford argues the case for designers to think big. In his view, much of what now passes for design isn't that important - it's too incremental and has too little effect. It's become a tool of consumerism, creating amusing products, but not ones that are very... Could Multiplied Media Be The Next Big Thing? November 3, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Last week, the DVC SmallTech Newsletter identified ten breakout smallcap technology stocks for YTD 2009. Many of those intersect with the RES Free Thinking Top 5 picks for 2009. Investors in all of those stocks are smiling so far as we enter the last two months of the year. Alas, but there may be... Podcast: What's all the Fuss about ISO Certification for EMRs? November 2, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth On October 3rd I published a posting entitled A Bombshell for EMRs in Canada - Classification of EMRs as 'Medical Devices' This elicited a significant response and comments from physicians and vendors alike. The issue revolves around the impact of impending certification requirements by Health Canada... Please select a category:
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