May, 2007

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Google Hell

SoCal CTO

I've worked with several businesses that were essentially based on driving traffic via search engine optimization (SEO). There are a wide variety of techniques that can be used, but getting high rankings is not easy and highly volatile. I just saw a Forbes article talking about Google Hell - getting placed in the secondary index. Bottom line - if you are basing your business on high rankings via organic search, there's pretty incredible risk.

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Bringing Lean to Software Development

LeanEssays

Software is not about making something, it’s about making something work. Take software out of a cell phone, a car, a factory, a business, and it won’t work anymore. Software is the brains behind just about everything complicated that we try to do. In 1960, J.C.R. Licklider, the visionary behind the Internet, wrote: “The main aims [of software] are 1) to let computers facilitate formulative thinking as they now facilitate the solution of formulated problems, and 2) to enable men and computers to

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Just as Capital Has a Static Cost of Change, So Must IT

The Agile Manager

The global economy is awash in cash. We’ve experienced unprecedented profitability growth for the past 16+ quarters, the cost of capital is low, investment risk is more easily distributed, and companies find themselves with strong cash balances. Increasingly, though, we're seeing companies being taken private and their cash taken out by new ownership, or companies buying back their own stock.

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TLE-2007: Attending IBMs Technology Leadership Exchange - Social Computing in the Enterprise, Where Art Thou?

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Entering the World of Mobile 2.0 with the N95

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

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Why Enterprise 2.0 Wont Transform Organisations - And Why We May Have Gotten It Wrong Once More!

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

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