The NIST Security Configuration Checklist for Intel vPro Technology provides information your IT team needs in order to make maximum use of the hardware available in your enterprise (assuming your have modern IT- if you don’t, then this checklist provides yet another impetus to modernize: you cannot secure legacy IT like you can modern vProRead… Read more »
Entrepreneur Magazine recently published a list of the best MBA programs for green business. Based on their assessment, some programs are clearly more substantive than others, but all seem to have a reasonable amount to offer the potential student interested in green business. Sixteen schools made the list, which includes some names you would expectRead… Read more »
European and UK biofuel requirements lead to production practices that violate human rights and damage the environment, according to a new study. Original post
This apparently ordinary station on the Berlin U-Bahn is remarkable for two reasons, one visible and one not visible at all. The first is fairly apparent. The typeface of the station name and the brown tiles give a clue, though the full splendour of the orange ceiling doesn’t really come across in the picture. ThisRead… Read more »
Crucial Point LLC subsidiary CTOlabs.com has just published the results of a study on the impact of data growth in government. To download your copy see: http://www.carahsoft.com/dedupesurvey From the press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/04/prweb5243224.htm Data Growth and Virtualization Mandate New Approach to Federal Storage Management Survey Finds Data Deduplication Aids in Managing Data Growth in Federal AgenciesRead… Read more »
Human Resource Specialists are not specialists in Information Technology. Yet, today HR has a difficult time recruiting, engaging with employees, providing benefits, conducting training or capturing performance feedback without the intervention of technology. In fact, without technology, I can emphatically say that these functions are impossible. Why? Because heightened expectations for anywhere, anytime access toRead… Read more »
Steph Gray @lesteph recently highlighted an article by Gerry McGovern on the The accidental website visitor. Gerry talks about how a website significantly improved its satisfaction levels once it was attracting the right, but smaller audience. This made me think about who is the ‘right kind’ of website visitor? Are they one of us? DoRead… Read more »
As we approach the first (Beta) release of the Knowledge Hub (May 2011), a project that has consumed my very existence as lead consultant for these past 2 years, I thought I would share a presentation I put together for the Knowledge Hub Conference that was held in London on 1st March 2011 (yes, aRead… Read more »
At Parliament House Canberra today, I attended the Gov 2.0 lunch with Alison Michalk on Community management . Also Professor Rachel K. Gibson, Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, said a few words on research in the UK and Australia on use of Internet in election campaigns.Alison Michalk on Community managementAlison, Quiip Director andRead… Read more »
This is another entirely random ‘what if?’ post. I freely admit that not the right amount of serious considered intellectual thought has gone into this. But. What if, right, we all rotated Chief Executives every few years or so? I can’t quite remember how it started and finding the conversation would be difficult, but IRead… Read more »