Do CIOs Care About Collaboration?

One of the major findings in our new survey on collaboration is the importance of executive support and advocacy. Executives rarely use collaboration technologies, and I argue that their usage would be more widespread if they set the example. When...

Can Prediction Markets Work?

MIT: The ROI of Collaboration

Before coming to Ziff Davis, I was editor of the MIT Sloan Management Review. I remain a fan. The winter 2008 issue has come out, and several articles look especially interesting to IT executives:...

Thanks by E-mail? No Thanks!

A bit of seasonal advice - don't use e-mail to thank an employee if you can say thank you in person. According to a survey of 2,327 Americans over age 18, 68 percent of respondents believe that being thanked via...

Social Networking's ROI

What's the business value of social networking software? Harvard Business School professor and blogger Andrew McAfee has come up with a good, non-intuitive answer, courtesy of a seminal 1973 article by Stanford University sociologist Mark Granovetter: titled "The Strength of...

The Cost of Complexity

"Is enterprise software just too complex to deliver on its promises?" That's the excellent question posed in an article on the Web site of the MIT Sloan Management Review by consultant Cynthia Rettig. Her answer is a forceful but thoughtful...

Challenging the 'Innovator's Dilemma'

A little-known researcher at the London Business School is directly challenging Clay Christensen, author of one of the most influential business books of the past 20 years: "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail."...

Is Retail Ready for RFID?

Free Corporate E-Mail? No Thanks.

The best known example of SaaS (software as a service)--free Webmail such as Yahoo Mail, Hotmail or Gmail--may be enormously popular among individuals. But one of the interesting findings from our new survey on SaaS is how few companies are...

A Parallel Processing PC

Researchers at the University of Maryland's engineering school have developed what they are calling the first-ever parallel processing PC. The prototype, developed by Professor Uzi Vishkin and his team, uses a single chip and standard components, is capable of operating...