Innovation

Today’s Tuesday Reading, “Keeping Pace with Technology” comes from ITLP IX’s Vision Team – Beth-Anne Sullivan (Northeastern University), Terry Tatum (University of Texas), Elease Welch (New York University), Randy Standridge (University of Texas), Todd Rheinfrank (Carnegie Mellon University), and Tom Lewis (University of Washington).  Their graduation was last summer and since then they have continued to […]

In “The Power of Persuasion“, Susan Cramm  Cramm argues that persuading and inspiring others starts with your character and credibility which you have established through personal interactions.  She believes that effective leaders get things done through others and, in doing so, are able to create a powerful role for themselves, their organizations and technology.   In […]

David Storm, in the January 2007 issue of InformationWeek calls our attention to “Five Disruptive Technologies to Watch in 2007“.  In the piece, Storm calls our attention to RFID, Web Services, Server Virtulization, Advanced Graphics Processing, and Mobile Security, all technologies that have been available to one extent or another for a number of years.  […]

Today’s reading is the Work-Life Balance column from the December 19, 2006 issue of The Economist.  The column, which can be found at,  http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=8450071 has two short notes:  “Consumer technologies are invading corporate computing”  and “Executive toys.” In these pieces, the question is raised as to whether it is time to begin using publicly available web […]

Today, we welcome the participants in Group VI of the IT Leaders Program who are starting their first workshop.  Welcome to the Tuesday Readings, gleanings from my readings that I hope you might find interesting, provocative, and otherwise useful. Today’s reading is a review of Eric Bonabeau’s “Hunch Engine” which appeared in a recent Technology […]

Who’s Sorry Now? http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16816&ch=infotech Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief of MIT’s Technology Review, reviews Pip Coburn’s “The Change Function:  Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn.” Coburn was managing director of the technology group of UBS Investment Research during the technology run-up of the late 1990s.  While his focus in on customer’s […]

  I really enjoy reading Rick Brenner who writes the email newsletter  from Chaco Canyon Consulting.  The last two issues of the newsletter  has focused on tactics for tough times:        http://www.ChacoCanyon.com/pointlookout/060201.shtml        http://www.ChacoCanyon.com/pointlookout/060208.shtml   In these two pieces Rick focuses on problem solving:      – What problem as I […]

As I was reading the current issue of Fast Company, I ran across a longer column reporting on a conversation with Joe Kraus on what he now knows.  Kraus was a founder of Excite that in 1996 became one of the biggest tech IPOs ever.  At 33 he is not starting Jotspot, a hosted Internet […]

One of the things that is becoming more important to all of us is “virtual communication,” whether one-on-one or with teams.  Some of us are old hands at this, others are still learning.  I’ve copied below three recent columns on the subject from Point Lookout, a free weekly email newsletter produced by Chaco Canyon Consulting. […]