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Don’t let your strategic plan SINK

Does your IT strategic plan read like a laundry list of to-dos?  Technical chores that add up to form a plan.  Check out how your strategic plan measures up against Gartner’s list of top 10 mistakes that people do when defining their strategic plan – http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1312742,00.html And while you are on the topic of strategy, […]

Mid-market CIOs have their say

From mpc managed desktops and Information Builders business intelligence solutions to ShoreTel VoIP solutions, see what mid-market CIOs liked at a recent event in Orlando Florida.  More than 300 senior technology executives from the mid-market sector gathered to examine some blazing, a few established and many interesting technology products and solutions.  Find out what they liked […]

Which Cloud are you on?

Do you use Cloud computing to virtually expand your technology capabilities?  Read all about the rage that is Cloud computing in a recent New York Times feature – http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E180025742400363509.html?ref Whether you view a narrow wisp of Cloud computing or take a global view where you include anything outside “your” network find out who the key […]

Disruptive Tecnologies … are you ready?

Gartner analysts gazed into the crystal ball and identified the top 10 disruptive technologies.  If Augmented Reality, Context-Aware, Mashups and Enterprise Social Software with it’s characteristic chaotic co-production are not part of lexicon, get ready.  The next wave of disruptive technologies span the gamut from pure tech to changing how we humans fundamentally may interact […]