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Office Productivity: Businesses Continue to Make Workers More Productive

By Dick Weisinger

Office workers are five times more productive today than workers in the 1970’s, and productivity is on track to increase by another 22 percent before 2020, according to a report from the UK Center for Economic and Business Research and O2 Business. …

Open Data: Rapid Data Decay of Scientific Data

By Dick Weisinger

While governments have been pressured over the last few years to increasingly make data they’ve collected publicly accessible, the same level of pressure hasn’t yet been applied to data that’s been collected within the scientific community. A paper published in…

Mobile: To Survive Small Businesses Must Embrace Cloud and Mobile in 2014

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud and Mobile are shaping up to be the two technology tools that many small businesses plan to adopt in 2014 in hopes of propelling their businesses forward. Cloud computing will help small businesses (SMBs) save money and more effectively…

Big Data: Can Next Generation Software Replace the need for Data Scientists?

By Dick Weisinger

Virginia Backaitis, Big Data recruiter, earlier this month wrote a piece for CMSWire called ‘the End of Data Scientists’ where she collects comments from executives of companies building analytics tools.  These businesses say that the next generation of software analytics tools to…

The 2014 IT Market: Software Takes the Lead as IT Growth Improves

By Dick Weisinger

Globally, organizations will spend $2.22 trillion on IT technologies in 2014, up 6.2 percent over 2013 spending, according to Forrester Research.  The increase in spending is attributed to investments in mobility, cloud computing, analytics, big data, and smart process applications.…