The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We worship at the altar of integrity, for us “God” is integrity manifest in all things at all times. Hence, Hell is what we have now, with corruption rampant, true costs concealed and externalized to the public, and a potential paradise lost to the ten high-level threats to humanity: poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, inter-state …
Visualizing the difference between 20th and 21st Century management I wrote last month about the biggest difference between 20th and 21st Century management. I said there that management in the 20th Century was about achieving a finite goal: delivering goods and services, to make money. Management in the 21st Century by contrast is about the …
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It’s About Context, Business Ecosystems, and IT Impact September 18, 2010 Ric Merrifield I bought this book on the recommendation of a colleague whom I have known for twenty years, both of us members of the Silicon Valley Hackers Conference started by Stewart Brand and now managed by Glen Tenney. When I came to buy …
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Smart University designs and delivers high level ICT training through Europe. Its focus: the latest technologies that will drive future growth and innovation of enterprises and organizations. The Sophia Antipolis session offers 17 trainings, one or two day long, intended to engineers, executives, academics and every professional involved in the design and implementation of projects …
The buzz continues—agile, cloud computing, text analytics, virtualization, open source, cool BI, Web 2.0, social media, mobile BI. But what do these terms really mean for business intelligence and data warehousing? It’s been difficult enough to implement effective and valuable BI/DW solutions with existing technologies. Will these emerging technologies make your job easier or harder? …
Multilingual Web should be a priority for India: W3C chief Six months into his new job, Jeffrey Jaffe, Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium has his work cut out The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C, as it is better known, is where the industry meets to set standards for the Web. …
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On the move to open source (or some other non-open source license like CC) and which license will be used: “Reason for making Geoportal open source? Like anyone, Esri responds to trends in the IT industry, we listen to requests from our users to take a more collaborative approach to development, and source code was …
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