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Disruptive Technology: Four Forces Driving Global Large-Scale Transformation

By Dick Weisinger

The world is under stress as it undergoes rapid transformation.  Disruption and change is happening in every corner of our lives, argues three leaders from the McKinsey Global Institute in a new book: No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All…

ITaaS: Managing IT as a Separate Business Entity

By Dick Weisinger

IT as a Service (ITaaS) is a business operational model where the IT group is run as a separate entity from the rest of the organization, serving Line of Business (LOB) groups within the organization as its customers.  Often the…

Software: MIT Researchers Develop More Intuitive Programming Method Based on Probability

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers at MIT are working to create a new generation of programming languages that are much more compact and declarative, compared to typical programming languages that are very detailed and prescriptive in describing how a task must be performed.  They’re…

IT Spending: Strong Dollar Continues to Force Downward Revision

By Dick Weisinger

The numbers for 2015 IT spending are crumbling.  In June 2014, Gartner saw 2015 as a big year for global IT spending and forecast 2015 growth to be 3.7 percent.  By January 2015, Gartner revised their estimate to 2.4 percent.  In…

Internet Browsers: Microsoft Deprecates Internet Explorer and Introduces Spartan

By Dick Weisinger

Coming this Summer, Microsoft plans to release the next version of the Windows OS, version 10.  Microsoft also recently announced that they will be phasing out Internet Explorer in this version of the operating system, being replaced by a new browser…