This past weekend my daughter (who I have referenced in several posts) graduated from NC State University--Summa Cum Laude and Phi Betta Kappa and heading on to UNC Chapel Hill for Medical School(proud parent addition of information irrelevant to this story). During the weekend, she took several out of town...
Acoustic Mirrors and Contextual Communications
by Hank Barnes | May 15th, 2013
2012 Healthcare Breaches
by Jack Santos | May 13th, 2013
If you have followed my blog, you know that I annually review the US HHS breach report, just to see what kind of year we had in healthcare security. Well, enough time has gone by since the end of year reporting to make sure we have captured the stragglers. Prior...
Announcing: Cool Vendors in Consumer Goods, 2013
by Don Scheibenreif | May 17th, 2013
At Gartner, one of our favorite reports as Analysts is the Cool Vendors report each team does every year. By definition, Cool Vendors are small vendors that offer innovative products or services. The innovation may be in how the product works or in what can be accomplished by those using...
Reminiscing on AADI London 2013
by Eric Knipp | May 17th, 2013
I am heading back to Germany after a few fun days in London at the Gartner AADI conference. We had a good show, with a high level of attendee enthusiasm and interaction. I had good 1-on-1s and a very engaged (if small) set of workshops on .NET in the cloud,...
Order From Chaos: Creating A Standard For Mobile App Management And Secuity
by Phillip Redman | May 17th, 2013
If there's one thing the mobile industry is known for is standards. There's a lot of them. In networking technology you have multiple Wi-Fi standards in use, 80.211 a, b, g, n, ac. In wide area wireless there are GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE. And for mobile OSes you have iOS,...
Two Inconvenient Truths about IT Compliance
by Erik Heidt | May 17th, 2013
I am very pleased to announce that my first document Achieving IT GRC Sucess has published this week and is now available to Gartner for Technical Professionals subscribers. The research and writing process led to many interesting conversations about governance, risk management and compliance with clients and colleagues. Let's examine two...
What Every Digital Brand Manager Should Embrace – Right Now
by Richard Fouts | May 17th, 2013
Amplifying your story over digital media is what branding in the 21st century is all about – and it’s been a hugely disruptive trend.
When Larry Light was CMO of McDonalds he found parallels between marketers, editors and writers. Just as writers collaborate with their editors to develop the many...
So long and thanks for all the fish
by Mark P. McDonald | May 16th, 2013
This all started back in January 2009 and 718 posts latter with more than 3,700 comments it is time to conclude this blog. During the past four years, the blog has sought to present and share ideas about technology in the enterprise, the role of the CIO and the changing...
If You Give an Intern Control of Your Facebook Page...
by Jenny Sussin | May 16th, 2013
Let's press play and turn on the speakers for this one because it's nearly summer time and while our interns come to join us, we should listen to some relaxing music. Plus, your intern might look like Chad or Jeremy in '64.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvD0_aeAf2E
If you give an intern control...
Of Budgets, Short-sightedness and Special Pleading
by Rolf Jester | May 15th, 2013
On May 14th the Australian Commonwealth government brought down its national budget for the year ending June 2014. So the IT pundits in Australia are busy pontificating about the impact of the national budget on the IT industry. Fair enough. That’s their job. It happens in all countries, states and...
What should technologies like IBM's Watson and Google's Knowledge Graph mean to you?
by Tom Austin | April 24th, 2013
I've seen the future … and now it's within grasp. It's going to impact your life and your work before this decade is out.
We just published a note entitled Exploit the Intersect of IBM's Social Business and Solution Selling Strategies.
A part of that note, probably one quarter, dives into...
