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The Business of Open Source

October 14, 2013 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

Companies can be extremely cautious about using open source software, but a lot of that wariness has eroded in recent years.  Possibly the realization that open source isn’t really free has helped ease the minds of those who thought they were being offered something for nothing and were looking for the catch.  But people don’t [&hellip...

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Beware of New Hiring Models

October 6, 2013 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

Eddie Yoon in the HBR suggests that it’s inefficient to vet applicants for a new position by combing through each one’s résumé.  He recommends a new hiring model, which can be summarized like this: Look at successful projects and business...

Indian Challenges Apply to All

August 7, 2013 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

Forrester’s Manish Bahl has some advice for Indian companies dealing with the rupee’s decline.  His suggestions are worth heeding regardless of the country or point on the economic  cycle you find yourself in. Readers of dot Leader are familiar...

Lessons Learned From Goldman Sachs v. the Programmer

August 4, 2013 • Management Practice • • Comments (0)

There’s a lengthy article by Michael Lewis  in Vanity Fair about a programmer who is being prosecuted for theft from his employers, Goldman Sachs.  The first lesson to be learned here: don’t take code with you when you leave a wealthy and...

Ideas Are Easy; Recognizing Brilliance is Hard

July 23, 2013 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

HBR’s David Burkus tells us that it’s not hard to get the ideas flowing and argues that the real management challenge is spotting the good ones.  He reports a Wharton study that suggests the reason for this is simply uncertainty.  I can attest...

Gaming To Replace the Job Interview

July 22, 2013 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

Wired’s Ben Paynter thinks gaming could provide hiring managers the information they need to select job candidates.  Color me skeptical.  There are certainly skills that could be identified that way (I believe there are MBA factories that accept any...

Strategically Exploit IT; Don’t Just Enable Operations

July 22, 2013 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

I’m always pleased to read about IT as  a strategic driver.  It’s still so common to find executives who yet regard IT as a cost center that supports the business rather than a source of strategic advantage.  This HBR article belts that one...

Offshore Still Offers the West Opportunity

July 14, 2013 • Management Practice • • Comments (0)

CIO magazine observes that the number of developers in India is set to surpass those in the US in 2017.  I’m a little surprised that it will take that long, but be that as it may, there is clearly still fertile ground in the sub-continent for a...

Crowd-Sourcing Is Better and Cheaper Than the Experts at Finding Software Holes

July 10, 2013 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

In some circumstances your more sophisticated users are better at finding bugs in your software than expert consultants (says The Register, reporting on the efficacy of crowd-sourcing as a means of finding security holes in a browser).  There’s an idea...

Mainstream Moves For Data Analytics

July 8, 2013 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

For all that data analytics has been a buzzword for several  years, and there are plenty of players, both vendors and large users, it still seems that for most SMEs, not to mention consumers and citizens, analytics is still something that is done about and...

Gartner: IT Spend Up By Only 2 Percent

July 6, 2013 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

Research by Gartner suggests that global IT spending will increase by only 2% this year, to $US3.7 trillion.  Sounds like a lot of money, but if we’re looking to climb out of a recession here, it’s not a very big bump.  The stock market has been...

Vindicated by Carr

May 16, 2013 • Management Practice • • Comments (0)

In a dot Leader post this last March I maintained, not for the first time, that Nicolas Carr’s famous contention that “IT Doesn’t Matter” treated IT too generally. His conclusions fail, I argued, because IT is in reality not a single technology but...

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