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Faced with Distraction, Leaders Need Willpower
HBR
writes "[by John Coleman]...Our environment only exacerbates the problem. The jungle of stimuli that engulfs us each day make it difficult to exercise restraint or focus on the important habits we need to build or tasks we need to accomplish...willpower is an essential quality you'll need for personal effectiveness at work...powering through an endless day of difficult decisions...Want to grow your business or get that promotion at work?...consider a few of the following approaches..."
Making the Business Case for Enterprise Social Networks
Altimeter Group
writes "[by Charlene Li]...Most companies approach enterprise social networks as a technology deployment and fail to understand that the new relationships created by enterprise social networks are the source for value creation....in today’s consumerized world, business units can adopt enterprise software, often without IT ever knowing. As a result, a new approach is required that focuses on four key ways that relationships create value through enterprise social networks: [1] Encourage sharing. [2] Capture knowledge..."
P&G CIO Sees Analytics as Key to Agility
Susan Hall
writes "...Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini plans to quadruple the number of people on staff with expertise in business analytics...In a second, really interesting article on P&G's efforts to increase transparency and agility, Michael Schrage at Harvard Business Review writes that greater transparency in large organizations generally brings on more micromanaging. At a conference, he asked the P&G execs how they dealt with that. He was surprised at the answer..."
Corporate Vision and Digital Strategy Linked to Content Curation
Rahel Anne Bailie
writes "...Content curation is a hot topic right now because organizations are finding themselves with way too much content that has accumulated over the course of time...which now needs to be grouped into some sort of order for visitors to make sense of it...Content “clean-up” has a much different connotation than content curation...That latter is treated as a task worthy of a senior staffer, who understands the corporate vision and digital strategy..."
IT Consumerization has Produced Thousands of Amateur CIOs
Business Finance
writes "[by Eric Krell]...CIOs in every company have a Wieland problem these days...“A number of CIOs I talk to see many of their employees starting to outpace the capability of the IT department...The challenge primarily resides in security: how can...sensitive data and information be sufficiently protected as it surfs on and off private devices...CIOs do not even know exists and across wireless networks...The opportunity lies in...
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Selling Data Mining to Management
SmartData Collective
writes "[by Sandro Saitta]...the step from analytics to action is a crucial one in any analytics project. Imagine you have the best data and found the best model of all time. You need to industrialize the data mining solution to make your company benefits from them...you will first need to sell your project to the management...three interesting articles on this topic..."
Applying Risk Management Tactics to Outsourcing and Open Innovation
Wharton Sch of Bus
writes "..Open innovation is gaining in popularity, but when should companies be concerned with protecting their own knowledge? Most people expect bad weather to negatively impact business conducted outdoors, but what are its implications in industries where work is primarily done inside? How can companies use risk management techniques to better assess the potential downsides of hiring contract or temporary workers?..."
The Difference Between a Good and Bad Strategy
Forrester
writes "[by Tim Sheedy]...I work with a lot of CIOs and heads of strategy...As a part of our strategy document review service, I have seen plenty of approaches to IT strategies – from “on a single page” position statements through to hugely detailed document...The basis of a good strategy is to diagnose the challenge, develop a guiding policy and create coherent policies and actions. You know it’s a bad strategy when it:..."
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
HBS Working Knowledge
writes "[by Maggie Starvish]...The paper is believed to be the first to incorporate an understanding of second-generation bias into a new approach to women's leadership development, moving beyond traditional programs developed for men. "Most leadership development for women is 'add women and stir'—basically, delivering to women what is delivered to men...First-generation biases, such as policies or actions...have been largely wiped off the books. Second-generation biases, while unintentional, can have the same effect..."
Just How Important is Manufacturing in Innovating?
HBR
writes "[by Willy C Shih]...you cannot innovate in a country if the factories are on the other side of the world. R&D and manufacturing must be located close to each other so their people can together figure out how to develop a product...Working in these plants are inventive people who are the source of important ideas....The bottom line is if a country loses the ability or the capacity to manufacture, its innovation space will be..."
Financial Institutions Act on BYOD Trust Model
Bank Systems Tech
writes "by Ojas Rege]...The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is one of the more dramatic results of the consumerization of IT, in which consumer preference, not corporate initiative, drives the adoption of technologies in the enterprise. By 2014, 90 percent of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices predicted...Gartner...Building a BYOD trust model requires a financial institution to do the following:..."
Real Innovators Ship Products Customers Can Adopt
Jeffrey Phillips
writes "...There are three risks in particular that we must address when introducing a new product or service into the marketplace. Clearly the product or service must offer equivalent benefits at a lower price or new and improved capabilities at the same value proposition...You must then overcome the risks that customers perceive in any new product or service: [1] Will it be difficult to adopt? [2] Will it be compatible with my existing way of life..."
Brands Face Stream Fatigue as Consumers Look Beyond Gimmicks
Brian Solis
writes "...While many brands are designing editorial and engagement programs to encourage consumers to “Like” and follow profiles...consumers are simultaneously struggling to find signal against the noise, grappling with stream fatigue...overwhelming sense of over connectedness...The reality is that customers can and will cut ties with brands that do not take their best interests into account. Consumers are realizing that they have the power to..."
New Wireless Technology Could Revolutionize Highway Transportation
Science Daily
writes "...The MIT researchers have created a spinoff company that's developing a stationary charging system capable of wirelessly transferring about 3 kilowatts of electric power to a vehicle parked in a garage or on the street. Fan and his colleagues wondered if the MIT system could be modified to transfer 10 kilowatts of electric power over a distance of 6.5 feet -- enough to charge a car moving at..."
Researchers Reveal How Attackers Can Track Cell Phone Locations
ThreatPost
writes "[by Brian Prince]...The situation was detailed by researchers from the University of Minnesota, who discovered that there is enough information leaked from the lower layers of the GSM [Global System for Mobile Communications] communication stack to permit attackers to perform what they call “location tests” on targeted devices. “Cell phone towers have to track cell phone subscribers to provide service efficiently,”...one of the authors of the paper, explained... “For example..."
Is the CIO Becoming the New CMO?
SmartData Collective
writes "[by Ajay Kelkr]...Marketing budgets are now larger than IT budgets & growing faster says Gartner. By 2017, Gartner says that CMO’s will spend more on IT than CIO’s. Interesting how marketing is getting more & more dependent on technology. And yet the Marketer’s perception of internal IT is not very positive. The same Gartner survey has Marketers saying that they..."
Taking a Break From Devices That Have Become 24/7 Intravenous Hookups
Wharton Sch of Bus
writes "...Not only do we have difficulty maintaining personal boundaries with work because our lives and jobs are so enmeshed with technology, but we also feel intense pressure from our organizations to be "always on" and immediately responsive to calls and emails outside of normal working hours. Some employers, however, are now attempting to flip the "off" switch...a growing number of businesses are reviewing their policies on how workers manage email, including how many employees are allowed to be copied on a message and..."
Who's Moving Their Company Beyond Bureaucracy Towards Innovation?
HBR
writes "[by Polly LaBarre]...we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Last month, we had the tough job of narrowing the pool down to fourteen excellent finalists. Now we're proud to introduce you to the seven winners:..."
Researchers Uncover More About the S in HTTPS
Security_Bloggers_Network
writes "[by Paul Ducklin]...SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, is the "great enabler" of online commerce. It's the S in HTTPS, and it's the padlock in the address bar of your browser...read the actual results...both sets of researchers found duplicated ns (prime products), and ns which could be factored easily...some of these problems are explained by poor (or just plain wrong) random number generation...If you're a coder, don't cut corners on randomness. And never, ever try to roll your own pseudo-random number generator, unless..."
Business Social Software Successful when Focused on Production, Delivery and Decision Making
Bertrand Duperrin
writes "...While some [large companies] focus on building communities and adopting software, some implemented pragmatic management practices, focused on production, delivery and decision making. These last ones often get better results in terms on impact on work as well as employees’ well-being...These cases are all about organizational, management, human principles that drive an increased collective effectiveness as well as more sustainability in performance and management..."
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