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Global IT: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Last fall, I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Adam Smith Institute’s “Corporate IT Strategies in Russia”…
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Windows Vista and The Price of Productivity
In my last column, I wrote at some length about the potential for a significant productivity gain from the new…
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Windows Vista and Productivity Implications of the User Experience
Usability has always been a big—and sometimes badly handled—issue in information systems design. Ever since Apple launched the current generation…
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GM’s Ralph Szygenda has the Biggest Stick in IT
In 1996, when Ralph Szygenda took over the top IT spot at General Motors Corp., he was the company’s very…
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CIOs: Paranoid No More
In my 21 years covering IT, I’ve long been bothered by how often CIOs are discussed as if they’re a…
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Picture This
Consider the photographs depicting prisoner abuse at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. They have been enormously damaging to…
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Assets Add Up; But Asset Software Sometimes Doesn’t
I just finished a fascinating piece of work for a client who wanted to launch an IT Asset Management program…
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Jagdish Bhagwati on the Age of Flux
In 2004, renowned economist Jagdish Bhagwati published his highly acclaimed book, In Defense of Globalization (Oxford University Press). As the…
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India on My Mind
Our second annual issue on globalization comes at an opportune time: As I write, President George W. Bush has just…
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The Other Information Revolution
Ten years ago, two defining events occurred that altered the course of evolution—specifically, the evolution of the Internet from an…