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Technology: Why business Online communities often Fail

By Dick Weisinger

You can build something, but will people come? In the world of online business communities, getting people to participate is hard. Deloitte surveyed more than 100 companies that have attempted to build on-line virtual communities. Interestingly, more than 60 percent…

Technology: Evolution of the Knowledge Worker

By Dick Weisinger

Knowledge workers use productivity tools to funnel and capture their creativity, building successful companies and useful products. The term “knowledge worker” has existed for some time, but technology is evolving the scope of the knowledge worker, and creating a new…

ERP: When Enterprise Software Rollout Falter

By Dick Weisinger

ERP projects are famous for pricetags that can reach into the tens of millions of dollars and for implementation timelines that stretch across years. The results are often worth the huge effort, but projects can go wrong, and sometimes the…

Technology: Google takes a Swipe at XML

By Dick Weisinger

XML has its roots going back to SGML in the 1980s and has been with us as a standard since 1997. The advantage of XML is that it is a simple way to serialize and exchange structured data. It’s detractors…

Enterprise Security: A Booming Market

By Dick Weisinger

With the backdrop of stories about cybercrime growing at somewhere near 100% annually, and problems like denial of Service, phishing, DNS attacks, and identify theft becoming common occurrences, companies are very slowly realizing the importance of cyber security for their…