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Innovation: Can or Should Social Media Drive Product Innovation?

By Dick Weisinger

How are new technologies influencing innovation in businesses?  Which groups within companies are the engines of new innovation?  Those are a few of the questions that a study from the Economist and sponsored by Oracle, “Cultivating Business-Led Innovation”, tries to address. While

Innovation: Is Innovation Really Just a Buzz Word?

By Dick Weisinger

Innovation.  While  innovation is often thought of as a ground-breaking discovery or invention, something that leapfrogs a pattern of incremental improvements.  We’re told that innovation done right can bring about revolutionary changes, and we see that ‘innovative’ companies like Apple

CIOs: Can the Role of CIO Survive? Not as it's currently defined.

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs get no respect.  Gartner found in a survey of CEOs that only 4 percent of them consider their CIO as a partner in managing their strategy and innovation. CIOs want to change that perspective.  And increasingly the CIO is

Technology: IT Architectures Need Rebuilding to Remain Relevant

By Dick Weisinger

Peter Sondergaard, Gartner’s global head of research, warns that “The second recession is about to hit.”  He predicts a recession to start impacting IT budgets by late 2011. To make matters worse, IT budgets are already strapped and aren’t allocating enough

PLM: Companies Kick-Start Product Innovation with PLM

By Dick Weisinger

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is no longer a technology for engineers only.  PLM has undergone a transformation over the last decade, and with that transformation, has been able to cross many industry boundaries.   A new study by Harvard Business Review