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Crowdsourcing Offers a Tightly Focused Alternative to Outsourcing

Crowdsourcing isn't likely to overtake traditional IT outsourcing in the foreseeable future, but for well-defined, repeatable tasks that can be pulled out of workflows and plugged back in, it's an attractive option for enterprise IT and pro

29 Mar 2013 4 mins

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Mobile and Personalization Technologies Drive Fast Food Chains to the Future

The future of burger joints and smoothie bars involves customer-friendly technologies that will make fast food more of a service and less of a destination.

25 Mar 2013 16 mins

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Mobile Hardware Is Going to Disappear

What's next for smartphones? Perhaps a cloak of invisibility. Apple, Samsung and Google are doing their best to make the hardware go away.

19 Mar 2013 5 mins

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Data-Driven Companies Outperform Competitors Financially

Companies that rate themselves substantially ahead of their peers in their use of data are three times more likely to rate themselves as substantially ahead in financial performance, according to findings from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

19 Mar 2013 6 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Technology Industry

CIOs Can Be Catalysts for Change in the Postdigital Enterprise

In the postdigtal enterprise, analytics, mobile, social, cloud and cyber will become the new basis for competition. This coming change presents an opportunity for the CIO to become the CEO's most trusted adviser.

14 Mar 2013 10 mins

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Mobile App Drives Digital Disruption for London Taxi Company

Mobile transportation apps like Hailo and others have forced traditional taxi companies to pull a strategic u-turn. Here's the story of how 60-year-old Radio Taxis Group of London has gone digital and mobile to catch up to Hailo's disrupti

11 Mar 2013 12 mins

Innovation Mobile Device Management Smartphones

Hailo Picks up Speed as a Digital Disrupter for Taxis

Like it or not, CIOs and other IT leaders will have to deal with a digital disrupter who wins over suppliers and customers by wringing out inefficiencies in the market. Mobile startups like Hailo and Uber, which match up passengers with transportatio

7 Mar 2013 4 mins

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Is Computer’s Future a Glass House?

According to Google and Corning, glass surfaces and eyeglasses are where we'll do our computing in the future.

7 Mar 2013 1 min

Innovation Mobile Small and Medium Business

Yahoo’s Work-at-Home Policy Is the Right Decision

Yahoo and CEO Marissa Mayer have taken a beating in the media for the company's recent ban on telecommuting, but creating a more collaborative startup mentality within the struggling tech giant is the right move, according to industry experts.

6 Mar 2013 5 mins

CIO IT Strategy Remote Work

How to Create Successful IT Projects With Value-Driven BPM

Businesses can realize immediate and lasting improvements in both IT and people-based initiatives when they implement a management discipline known as value-driven business process management. Accenture's managing director for its BPM practice

27 Feb 2013 6 mins

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