We warned you there'd be a lot of 2007 year-in-review and 2008 predictions posts. Here we go again. Verizon Business has identified 10 hot business technology trends for 2008, including CIO as a business strategist: CIOs will take on an even more pivotal role in determining how to invest capital...
Organizations devote abundant time and resources to knowledge management, but what about ignorance management? The nuggets are often nestled somewhere between what you know you don't know and what you don't know you don't know. So how do you get at them? If the stories of fallen...
Considering only 25 percent of employees are truly engaged by their work -- and if you believe 80 percent of the work is done by 20 percent of people -- that leaves a lot of employees either going through the motions or otherwise underachieving. Managers are no exception. ...
Speakers at next week's "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future" conference, part of Harvard Business School's 100th anniversary celebration, will ask some thought-provoking questions about management's role in innovation. One question about the Internet's impact on collaboration stands out: Are management processes so out of sync with networked processes that they'll...
Do you know the average life expectancy of corporations in general? A new study shows many business leaders don't; managers in young organizations shoot too low, and managers in older ones shoot too high. It's actually less than 50 years. And according to the research, the older an organization, the higher the...
The LA Daily News has diminished and moved its business section to make room for KNOW, a section that will "contain in-depth information about everything from relationships to cars, from issues of faith to the history of the region." The business section, now located in B2, no longer includes stock listings. Likely, KNOW will start...
Business Week Online posted an edited transcript of a conversation with author Stephen Joyce who wrote Teaching an Anthill to Fetch: Developing Collaboration @ Work. According to Joyce, collaborative intelligence can be understood as such: Observe firemen fighting fires, platoons of soldiers in combat situations, sports teams playing at their...
You're taking off a week to go to Hawaii or Paris -- or maybe you're just schlepping it over to small town, Missouri to visit family -- and you tell your employees you'll be unreachable for the week. Come Wednesday you start wondering if that important report got processed. So you...
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