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Very interesting video from the folks at RSA Animate showing that – as many people will know – throwing more money at a person does not usually illicit a higher level of performance. There are plenty of other factors at play. Check out the video below. It’s 11 minutes long, but well worth a watch especially [...] Silicon Alley Insider have published an interesting chart showing relative R&D expenditure for a number of the major tech companies. As you can see, Microsoft continues what’s been a long standing trend for them of spending big on R&D – both as an absolute number and also as a percentage of revenue. That said, both [...] Worldwide enterprise IT spending across all industry markets is forecast to surpass $2.4 trillion in 2010, a 4.1 percent increase from 2009 spending, according to Gartner, Inc. Industries are returning to growth after a difficult year in 2009 when IT spending by vertical market totaled $2.3 trillion, a 5.6 percent decline from 2008. “2010 will see [...] should the CIO report to the CFO? Yes
View Results Loading … If you think ‘yes’, then why? If ‘no’ then firstly good on you (in my humble opinion), but why do you think not? Any and all thoughts most welcome. I’ll give you my lengthier explanation of why I think [...] Perhaps they were simply searching for a compelling headline, but an article over at the Telegraph Online suggests that users of Blackberrys (and presumably other smartphones) end up adding up to ten extra days of work per year, by virtue of being constantly online and available. My experience is actually different to that – and in [...] The results for the eighth annual Business Superbrands survey have been released, with Microsoft knocking Google off of the top spot as the UK’s strongest business-to-business brand. Revealing the fall-out from the financial crisis, the list of the 10 biggest fallers features four banks, with Royal Bank of Scotland crashing out of the Top 500 altogether [...] There’s been a bit of talk over the past couple of days about Oblong’s new ‘g-speak’ technology. Think ‘Minority Report’ style interaction and you get the idea. Some have proclaimed this the seconding coming, whilst others are not so keen (stand up Mr Blodget). To be sure, this is some way from usurping the mouse and [...] drunk girl Unless you plan on staying completely off of the grid, it’s somewhat hard nowadays to avoid leaving quite an extensive digital trail. Whilst a lot of that might actually prove rather useful at some point (white papers, insightful blog posts, stunning LinkedIn profiles), you might like to consider removing – or at least [...] Focus.com have put together a giant infographic showing various ‘net facts and figures. Click for larger image: Here’s an interesting idea from the Microsoft Office Labs: Ribbon Hero. Playing somewhat off of the current popularity of Facebook games such as Farmville, Cafe World etc., the team there have created a training program for Office that awards you ‘points’ and other virtual credits for completing certain tasks (opening a document, adding a style, [...] |
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