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From the Editor : Tried Selling Ideas?
A journey of change, and a journey of influence, which will help you transform people’s hearts, minds and actions.
Vijay Ramachandran, Editor-in-Chief of ChannelWorld. -
Don't Worry About Apple's Business, Worry About Its Products
The Apple community has been inundated with news of falling stock prices and adverse court rulings. As enthusiastic Apple customers, a lot of us read this stuff and fret. Why is that?
David Sparks , Macworld.com -
Should HP Follow Dell’s Footsteps?
HP, for one, is considerably bigger than Dell and so are its problems. HP’s revenues are twice that of Dell and its market cap is 50 percent higher.
Arun Kumar, Executive Editor, IDG Media -
Does Hardware Matter Anymore?
Those days are long gone. Today, hardware is often an afterthought in the enterprise and likely to be driven as much by employees' preferences as by centralized IT planning.
Preston Gralla, Computerworld (US) -
Why Microsoft And Dell Should Team Up On Tablets
The "post-PC" trend doesn't bode well for either Dell or Microsoft.Does that mean that Dell and Microsoft are doomed to follow BlackBerry to rapidly eroding relevance?
Tony Bradley, PC World (US) -
Why Microsoft Must Become Apple And Google
Can't beat 'em? Then join 'em. Microsoft's future may lie in stealing the strategies of its most bitter rivals.
Brad Chacos, Senior Writer, PCWorld -
Will Apple, Google and Samsung Lose the Smartphone Market?
From a business perspective -- who's making money on mobile phones in one way or the other -- the clear winners are Apple, Google (via advertising, mostly) and Samsung.
Mike Elgan, Computerworld (US) -
From the Editor : A Brave New Year
The most significant trend in 2012 that impacted Indian enterprise IT was the slowdown in the economy. The brakes on growth caused enterprises of all sizes to relook IT investments.
Vijay Ramachandran, Editor-in-Chief of ChannelWorld. -
Scot Finnie: 5 Tips for Developing Successful Mobile Apps
The initial rush to build mobile apps is settling down, and none too soon. The world has endured the release of a whole lot of mediocre, or even useless, mobile apps.
Scot Finnie, Editor-in-Chief of Computerworld -
Apple and the Future of Design
Before the iPhone, smartphones were bulky, simplistic, and overwhelmingly digital. Apple's approach to the problem was to first connect with the human holding the device, then present you with neat things you could do with it.
Dave Wiskus, Macworld -
10 Reasons Why Windows 8 Makes Sense for Business
Adopting any new OS imposes a learning curve on users, but once your workforce gets comfortable with Windows 8, its benefits can outweigh its drawbacks.
Tony Bradley, PC World -
From the Editor : Keep the Dots Connected
IT has to be a critical tool in your kit, and not just one that you deploy for clients alone.
Vijay Ramachandran, Editor-in-Chief of ChannelWorld -
A Year for Stories
Here’s my No. 1 forecast for 2013: We will start telling better stories. In the new year, the IT career guillotine will sever the necks of those less facile in the narrative arts.
Thornton A. May, Executive Director, IT Leadership Academy, Florida State College, Jacksonville -
2 Emerging Markets HP Should Enter to Turn Itself Around
HP can do this. The company desperately needs a stronger future story, and I think it would be cool to have either an HP personal robot or 3-D printer.
Rob Enderle , CIO (US) -
If Tech is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat?
Despite information technology's ever increasing role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth.
Patrick Thibodeau , Computerworld (US) -
The New Business Model: Competing with Partners!
While users and pundits focus on market share, companies tend to focus on profits. And when it comes to profits in the mobile space, Apple is taking nearly all of them.
Mike Elgan, Computerworld (US) -
Value the Skeptics
Skeptics haven’t got their due. Often, their presence provides a reality check to organizations. But it is vital that you differentiate between the good kind and the bad.
Bart Perkins, Managing Partner, Louisville based Leverage Partners -
From the Editor : Ode to Experimentation
A radical reshaping of the way your company is set up may help tackle today’s battles and tomorrow’s wars.
Vijay Ramachandran, Editor-in-Chief of ChannelWorld -
The Amazon Outage in Perspective: Failure Is Inevitable, So Manage Risk
An in-depth analysis of what happened during October's Amazon Web Services outage and how IT leaders should prepare for such incidents in the future.
Bernard Golden, Vice president of Enterprise Solutions for enStratus Networks -
Futuring Should be Job No. 1 for IT
IT leaders—your own customers—spend too little time imagining the future. That’s a big problem.
Thornton A. May , Thornton A. May is author of The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics and executive director of the IT Leadership Academy a
