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Companies Look for Ideas in All the Wrong Places
Despite the fears among experts that the U.S. is losing its competitive edge, when Eric von Hippel looks around him…
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Tech Marketers Tout the Wrong Value
A few months ago I got one of those semi-spam e-mails from a market research company acting on behalf of…
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Chase?
When JP Morgan Chase—the nation’s largest issuer of credit cards—announced last week that it was incorporating contactless payment capabilities in…
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Why Offshoring Will Always Be a Novelty, Never a Valuable Strategy
In my last columnI explained the obvious, if mostly ignored, reason why so many significant development projects fail. At its…
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Offshoring: The Self-Inflicted Wound
A cult of well-meaning but delusional academics has hijacked the consciousness of a lot of our peers. The cult is…
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When Good Managers Fail: The Law of Problem Evolution
Good managers always want to get better and improve on their past. This is a natural law—that is, one with…
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Is Vendor Obfuscation a Strategy?
As a longtime technology editor, I’ve seen my share of jargon from IT vendors, consultants, researchers and marketers. It never…
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Successful CIOs Steer Business Growth
SAN FRANCISCO — Now that most IT budgets are growing again, CIOs are going to have to focus on delivering…
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45 and Too Old to Work?
I wasn’t always a journalist. I spent years in IT doing everything from help desk (the horror! The horror!) to…