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Data Hoarding: An Expensive Habit Most Businesses Can't Shake

By Dick Weisinger

With all the hype around Big Data and the ease with which data can now be captured and stored, it’s no wonder that data hording is becoming a problem for companies.  Data hoarding is the excessive storing of data —…

Technology: WebRTC's One Billion Device Reach

By Dick Weisinger

WebRTC is a framework for real-time communication (RTC) between browsers that requires no special plug-in to work.  This is a topic that we first covered last December.  Supporters of WebRTC include Google and Mozilla — WebRTC is available now in both…

Enterprise Social: Without a Purpose, on-line Communities Wither

By Dick Weisinger

While nearly 70 percent of organizations have adopted some sort of Enterprise social technology, Gartner finds that only about 10 percent of those projects can actually be called successful.  The reason for the high failure rate is that businesses aren’t…

Technology: When Things go Wrong — IT Failures — #ITFail

By Dick Weisinger

Wikipedia defines failure as “the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success.”  While lessons learnt from a failure can serve as a spring board for a followup…

Project Management: The Four Habits of High Achieving Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

The Hackett Group recently produced an eye-opening report on the effectiveness of Project Management Office (PMO) as applied to IT.  The report found that rather than improve project delivery effectiveness, the use of PMOs often had just the reverse effect, only making…