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We share insights designed to help make sense of the modern technology landscape. From separating hype from reality to uncovering opportunities for real innovation, our articles aim to spark understanding and direction. Explore perspectives that inform strategy, inspire action, and move IT forward.

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D&IT Management

Don’t Let Big Misses Lead to Digital Messes

Enterprises still struggle with Digital Technology efforts. This series explores a series of “Big Miss” challenges often ignored or downplayed.

Douglas Brockway

June 23, 2022

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Workforce

Are you systematically rejecting promising job candidates? Your recruiting practices may be working against you.

The Labor Department reported 10.9 million job vacancies in December. At the same time, some 8.4 million potential workers were looking for work. Buried among this mass of applicants are some hidden gems. 

Workforce Team

March 15, 2022

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Society

The Thrill of Another MS Office Update

There is a vast group of people who don’t need all the bells and whistles in today’s software. We keep being inundated with upgrades we don’t need and forced to buy subscriptions that chunk away at our fixed incomes. We need less capable and cheaper software.

Ben Porter

February 14, 2022

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Society

‘Society has outsourced its future to a Technology Elite’ - Discuss

“Our society has effectively outsourced the building of software that makes our world possible to a small group of engineers in an isolated corner of the country."

Charles Symons

January 5, 2022

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Society

Revolt of the Lab Rats – A Satirical Take On Technology

Social media experiments affect our mental health. Regulation is needed ... by the FDA.

Ben Porter

December 19, 2021

Endeavors

Here we go again… Getting Rid of IT?

Interesting points, but it paints all of IT with a single brush. And it brings back many of the experiences of business in the past.

Ben Porter

December 8, 2021

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Workforce

Automating Your Business Is Like Pulling Teeth. How Companies And Employees Can Avoid The Pain.

Adopting new technologies to improve customer satisfaction and the bottom line seems like a no-brainer. Behind the scenes, workers are ill-prepared.

Workforce Team

November 18, 2021

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Workforce

5 Ways COVID Made You a Better Leader

As we slowly emerge from COVID 19, most organizations are struggling to hire, retain, and motivate their workforce. Many employees are burnt out, demotivated, and planning to quit. Strong leaders can make a big difference. You have learned five critical leadership lessons during the pandemic.

Workforce Team

October 7, 2021

Workforce

The Staggering Costs of Exclusion – a Motivator for More Vigorous Inclusion?

Inclusion, the active process of incorporating people into the organization and society and giving them a sense of belonging, has taken center stage as a primary means of implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in society and business.  The benefits of inclusion are impressive.

Tom Johnson

September 30, 2021

Workforce

Without Inclusion, Diversity is Unsustainable

On March 5, 2018, Google searches for "Inclusion" spiked to 3 times the national average since 2010.  Frances McDormand's speech at the Academy Awards advocating for labor contracts requiring more inclusive employment in the movie industry caused the increased interest.  Ironically, it took a Hollywood personality to draw that much attention to inclusion and only briefly.

Prometheus Team

July 9, 2021

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