August 14, 2012

How does technology support Enterprise Architecture?
Through the creation, communication and improvement of principles and models that represent an enterprise’s desired future state, one can enable an enterprise’s evolution. The tool that helps one move toward that desired future state is the use of different technologies. The idea is to improve corporate agility, accelerate the time-to-market of new products and services and improve operational efficiency by reducing the total cost of ownership.

Building a Better ERP Estimate
There are many explanations out there to explain why these ERP implementations did not meet budget or timeline. Instead of repeating common information out in the ERP blogosphere, the author of this blog post speaks to a root cause that is typically overlooked by our industry – inaccurate ERP implementation estimations.

What Doesn't Motivate Creativity Can Kill It
You really can manage for innovation, but it starts by knowing what drives creativity in the people who generate and develop the new ideas that, when implemented, will become tomorrow's innovations. Unfortunately, too many managers unintentionally kill innovation because they rely too heavily on carrots and sticks to motivate employees.

Data Science in India: meeting requirements, not just budgets
It struck me that educational values and approaches in India might make Data Science skill sets there more abundant than in the U.S. and other developed countries. Perhaps Data Science will help India transcend the stigma/typecast of a tech talent center that is merely lower in cost.

Pixar open sources production animation code, patents
The code released as open source is called Open SubDiv, and “... implement high performance subdivision surface (subdiv) evaluation on massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures.” .... Which means this release is not something for everyone. But Pixar has released the software under a licence permitting any commercial or non-commercial use.

Universal M2M network coverage a 'major challenge'
The machine-to-machine (M2M) market presents huge growth opportunities and revenue-generating possibilities, but service providers and telecom operators will need to resolve fundamental issues of ensuring global network coverage and lower roaming costs in order for the potential to be realized.

BI Experts: Relieving Agile BI Choke Points
Organizations must discover why and where their systems are inflexible and how they can apply new methods and technologies to increase agility. These three tips can help you get off on the right foot.

Tougher electronic waste rules come into force in Europe
Much more electronic and electrical waste will have to be collected and recycled under the revised Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, which was set in stone on Monday

BlackBerry 10 will 'win' against iPhone and Android says RIM
Research in Motion boss Thorsten Heins reckons BlackBerry 10 will rescue the ailing company. "We’re here to win," he told Bloomberg, and apparently he wasn't even joking! "We’re not here to fight for third or fourth place," he continued, which is just adorable.

All needed resources on SWOT analysis
There are many analysis tools used in supporting strategic planning in businesses, among them is the SWOT analysis. swot for management consulting Arguably one of the most commonly used and misused tools. Visit this page for all the help you may need on SWOT analysis.

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Quotes for the day:

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. " - Kenneth Hildebrand

"There is little success where there is little laughter." ~Andrew Carnegie

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August 04, 2012

The Analytics Carnival
Ever notice how the personalities and dispositions of carnival performers often resemble coworkers in an organization? They come in all shapes and sizes. An organization’s pursuit of adopting business analytics and analytics-based enterprise performance management methodologies also involves personalities of all types.

RIM CEO Reveals A Switch to Android Was Seriously Considered
Heins openly admitted that RIM will not be able to keep up with Apple and Samsung with out outside help. ... Heins also admitted that the company was seriously considering switching to the Android platform. While they took it into consideration, they ultimately decided against it.

How NASA tests an against-all-odds Mars rover landing
The space agency has dubbed Curiosity's imminent landing "seven minutes of terror." And that's even after months of excruciating, exacting preparation.

How to make sense of the big data universe
The best, simple definition of big data comes down to volume, velocity and variety. The volume aspect of big data is actually the one that is the least important. Big data is not about petabytes of data—it can be down to relatively small volumes that need to be dealt with in a manner that requires a big-data approach.

Structured Life, Structured Work, Structured Leadership
“Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.”

Understanding and Implementing Bridge Pattern in C#
When we think about bridge pattern the first thing that come to our mind is "it is some kind of bridge between two different implementations". But this is not true. The above mentioned This is the task of Adapter pattern which is discussed here. But to talk about bridge, this pattern is designed specifically to let the abstraction and the implementation vary independently.

Look Before You Leap into Predictive Analytics
CFOs are keenly aware that while the popularity of the term “predictive analytics” is relatively new, the concept is really nothing revolutionary. Predictive analytics is often described as data mining or advanced analytics that, as a concept, has existed for a long time. The only difference now is the abundance of technologies, tools and applications in the marketplace to analyze the large amount of data available.

Enterprise Architecture in 3 minutes
Enterprise Architecture design for anyone, in a brief animated story.

Is 'Metro' now a banned word at Microsoft?
Why is Microsoft allegedly telling those inside and outside the company to stop playing up 'Metro' going forward when talking about the new wave of Microsoft products?

ID theft may cost IRS $21B over next five years
Identity thieves continue to profit from U.S. government coffers by filing bogus tax returns, according to a new audit

A Personality Test for Entrepreneurs
Once you know your dominant trait, you’ll learn how your profile may impact your business during its critical milestones from nurturing the first seeds of growth, to scaling it, to shifting strategy, to selling it. At these turning points, you’ll know which traits you should “dial up” or “dial down” and what kind of people you may need beside you.

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Quote for the day:
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." ~Harvey S. Firestone

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