Last month we touched on the dual role of IT managers as both internal support and tech influencers at GigaOm. It’s pretty much the same story at companies around the world, as are the core principles for doing business: maximize efficiency and productivity while reducing costs. sent us a shiny new toy to help us […]

Since the arrival of the first consumer-bought smartphones, enterprise security has been under threat. That all-important chain of defense against security risks has been undermined by its weakest link, people, in this case by using non-standard devices to conduct business and therefore making corporate data vulnerable to attack. The alternative, to roll out company-issued mobile devices, […]

Excerpted from RainmakerThinking, Inc.’s white paper, What is the Great Generational Shift? There is a “Great Generational Shift” underway in the workforce today. This is the post-Baby Boomer shift that demographers and workforce planners have been anticipating for decades. It is not only a generational shift in the numbers in the workforce, but an epic […]

The tech world is in many ways like a large city. While we spend most of our time in a few neighborhoods, it doesn’t really come as a surprise to encounter an old friend or colleague that you haven’t talked to in years, hanging out in your corner café. So I was not surprised to […]

Update 21 February 2016 — I received email from Sophie Sleck of Blanc & Otis: OCF is not unifying OIC and AllSeen, this is not a merger of two groups. The technology leaders who have been specifying software protocols for the Internet of Things announced they are now working together to form a new entity. OCF is the successor […]

Doctor. Lawyer. Architect. Professional baseball player. Dragon slayer! Of all the things kids hope to be when they grow up, “IT Guy” almost never tops the list. Yet here we are, many of us parlaying a love for computer games or coding into a 40-hour/week job where our passion for all things digital takes a […]

2015 was the year when an unprecedented number of users took action against the ads that slowed web pages and turned the online content experience into a frustrating game of close-that-ad. According to a PageFair and Adobe report, U.S. ad blocking grew 48% in the twelve months leading up to June 2015. That’s 45 million […]

The transition to cloud computing – at the current snail pace doesn’t warrant ‘transformation’ rhetoric – may be getting a goose because of tightening finances in the corporate world. A time when the purported risks of cloud computing are moderated by companies hungry for cost-cutting. And that may be part of the slow-down in tech spending […]

Putting the burden of retraining in a digital world on the backs of the workers may be as ‘enlightened’ a policy as we’ll see, in the postnormal economy. Reading a piece on AT&T’s CEO, Randall Stephenson, and his plans to retool the company for an accelerating and vastly different world, one in which his company […]

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Agency may have adroitly resolved the notion of driver accountability for the coming smart car future. It may sound like a ‘through the looking glass’ paradox, but the US National Highway Traffic Safety Agency (NHTSA) has decided — in the face of relentless innovation in driverless vehicles — that cars can be their […]