When I was on my recent trip to Japan and Korea, I came across an article in the Financial Times describing Australia’s reticence in adopting design thinking in business. The article itself is a high-level summary of research done at MGSM by Dr Lars Groeger and Leanne Sobel. It’s a little chilling when you readRead… Read more »
“If you don’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” Like a mantra, it’s chanted over and over – but you must be measuring the right IT or you are just burning time. For an artist, which is more important – the tack hammer or the paint brush? The brush is used to create the masterpiece;Read… Read more »
I’ve just learnt from an inside source that the Australian Government has decided to go several steps further than the Queensland Government (who appointed an Assistant Minister for eGovernment last year), by appointing Australia’s first Government 2.0 Minister. The new Minister, who will be announced later today, will be responsible for taking forward the government’sRead… Read more »
John Naughton: Because we’ve all bought into the techno-utopianism of the early Internet, we tend to assume that it’s always going to be open to everyone. But as more and more of the world goes online, it’s clear that we’re heading in a very different direction — towards an online world dominated by huge, primarilyRead… Read more »
A recently released infographic from CloudCheckr (http://cloudcheckr.com/) sheds quite a bit of light on the importance of expert advice when an enterprise decides to deploy to the cloud. When AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March, they took that opportunity to conduct an internal survey of their customers’ usage. CloudCheckr compared theRead… Read more »
Effective management of employees and their career development will make a happy and effective organization. A learning organization is far more effective than anyone can imagine. Great managers should have discovered that their own success as well as the success of their organization depends on their employees. Training programs, if done correctly, can help createRead… Read more »
By Kat Berry Researchers at Virginia Tech college of Engineering have revealed a stunningly lifelike autonomous robotic jellyfish the size of a full grown man. The robot is 5 foot and 7 inches long coming in at 170 pounds. And is designed to run on its own energy and to use less energy like aRead… Read more »
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After bouncing around wildly earlier in the week, the stock market found its footing and rallied off of the early Wednesday morning low, to reach a new all-time high in the S&P 500 by the close on Thursday (Friday was a holiday.) Here are the up to date weekly, final March monthly, and end ofRead… Read more »
Understanding the definition will help managers eliminate unwanted workplace behaviors in order to create a workplace free of sexual harassment and sex discrimination. Sex discrimination and sexual harassment is not the same. “Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination but it is distinguishable in that the conduct involves sexual favors or the creation ofRead… Read more »