Dateline: April 25, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius lost her job as the result of the disastrous HealthCare.gov project. While no one expected her to actually write code and she certainly had some of the best IT advisors available to help manage the … [Read more...]
Learning from Target’s Big Hack
April 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: April 18, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In late 2013, the biggest retail hack in US history took place at, unfortunately for them, Target. Forty million credit card numbers and 70 million addresses, phone numbers and other pieces of personal information were stolen from their data base. BusinessWeek recently published … [Read more...]
Big Data and Intermediaries
March 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: March 28, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, professor, researcher, entrepreneur and author Dr. Tom Davenport published his newest book, Big Data at Work. He also published a blog about "Book Publishing's Big Data Future" on Harvard Business Review's blog network. In that blog, he writes, In my book I talk about … [Read more...]
Maybe Criticism is the Problem
February 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 7, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's thought for the weekend comes from a recent article by Daniel Goleman, Co-Director of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University and author of a variety of top-selling books. His recent blog at Harvard Business … [Read more...]
Most Impactful Ideas of 2013 According to HBR
January 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 3, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. To kick off our new year, this post is not really about one idea…but about 7. At the beginning of each year as a way to wrap up the past year, we look for the most insightful 'summary'. This year, we found just the list at Harvard Business Review's Blog Network by Katherine … [Read more...]
The Impact of Bitcoin
December 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 27, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. The topic this weekend is virtual currency and the rise of Bitcoin. Bitcoin, as you may know, is the hot virtual currency right now. A Los Angeles Times article earlier this month described it's use and it's recent rise in value. Consumers are using bitcoins at coffee shops, … [Read more...]
Google’s Role for Managers
December 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 20, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week we look at a recent Harvard Business Review article by Professor David Garvin, which was commented on by Drake Baer at Fast Company. The topic is the role of managers at Google, who famously eliminated managers in an effort to be flat, encourage innovation and … [Read more...]
IT for Economic Growth
December 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 13, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Last month, former President Bill Clinton addressed an audience in China about the role of IT in creating economic wealth. Clinton contends universal access to high-speed broadband raises education levels across any given community, which in turn creates the skills needed to … [Read more...]
