A few days ago I came across a request for proposals issued by the US Air Force Materiel Command to purchase 2,200 Sony Playstation 3 (PS3). For how surprising this may look like, the justification is indeed very clear. The Air Force is interested in expanding an earlier pilot where...
US Air Force Shows the Power of Commoditization
November 21st, 2009 · by Andrea Di Maio · one comment
Simple Healthcare Interop for Easy Applications
November 20th, 2009 · by Wes Rishel · no comments
After reading Health 2.0: Take a Lesson From the Web Peter Basch asked me "exactly what a Provider Health Internet looks like - [and what are] the implications of using it vs. a RHIO / NHIN?" The question has special piquancy because users of EHRs will need to show certain...
Cautiously optimistic enterprises in Sydney
November 20th, 2009 · by Nick Jones · one comment
A few impressions from Gartner's Sydney Symposium which finished on Thursday. Firstly, APAC hasn't suffered anything like the recession that Europe and the US have undergone, so our attendees here were on the whole cautiously optimistic. Technically speaking Australia didn't actually have a recession, there was only one quarter of...
Social Networking and Commercial Banking
November 20th, 2009 · by Kristin Moyer · 6 comments
Doug McKibben recently published a research note on social networking and commercial banking (paying Gartner clients please see “Social Networking for Commercial Banking: An Opportunity and a Challenge for Banks”). Social networking, online chat, blogs and mobile services are among the leading-edge communication and networking technology phenomenon that have become...
Sales force automation provides no competitive advantage.
November 20th, 2009 · by Michael Maoz · 3 comments
Watching the fortunes of the Fortune 500 gyrate in the chaotic machinations of world trade, you have to wonder if there is any advantage to investing in only one leg of a customer strategy. The biggest names in software have been touting sales force automation (SFA) applications for years, and...
Friday Filler: If The Sun Rose in the East, You Had a Cyber-Attack Today
November 20th, 2009 · by John Pescatore · no comments
For some reason, the SANS Newsbites didn't use my comments on the item below, so here it is to fill the Friday blog: US Government Agencies Say Incidents Are a Daily Occurrence (November 10 & 11, 2009) A CDW-Government survey of 300 US government IT professionals found that 44 percent...
Will Microsoft Exit the Ad Server Business?
November 19th, 2009 · by Andrew Frank · 5 comments
When Microsoft acquired aQuantive in 2007 for roughly $6 billion – an 85% premium – ostensibly to counter Google’s then-recent purchase of DoubleClick, some wondered whether competitive instincts were clouding judgment. AQuantive consisted of the interactive agency Razorfish, which Microsoft recently sold to Publicis for about $530 million, DrivePM, a...
What makes a good CIO great?
November 19th, 2009 · by Mark McDonald · 10 comments
Good question, tough answer. Jim Collins provides ideas regarding the differences between good and great. He discussed them at these years Gartner Symposium CIO Program in Orlando. Collins, the best selling business author and advisor, has studied the differences between good and great companies and leaders for more than twenty...
Midsized Businesses: Security on a Shoestring
November 19th, 2009 · by Adam Hils · one comment
With colleague Ruggero Contu, I've written a "buying behavior" note hased on a survey administered to security professionals from midsize companies in Western Europe (Italy, Germany, France), and BRIC nations (Brazil Russia, India and China). This study compares the two groups' tendencies, and contrasts them with large enterprise behaviors. Make no...
Links 11/19/2009
November 19th, 2009 · by Jim Holincheck · no comments
Compensation Cafe: Coffee's for ClosersGreat post on the essence of pay for performance.tags: HCM, talentmanagement, compensationPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here....