This week I am attending the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 for the 12th consecutive year. It is one of the largest and most important annual gatherings of CIOs and senior IT leaders. There are many influential CIO's & senior-level IT executives with ties to Wisconsin including...
The latest figures from the National Science Foundation confirm what many people in Wisconsin already knew: the UW-Madison is one of the nation's leading research universities. The numbers also underscore the fact that academic research and development isn't confined to the labs and research offices...
Defects are the last of the seven sources of waste aka Muda (Japanese for waste) in lean thinking. Defects in manufacturing are errors, damage, mistakes and other situations that do not confirm to standards and processes. Defects and defect elimination is...
Schneider National Inc. will begin tracking the work hours of its 13,270 drivers electronically, a significant move in what could turn into a more general shift away from the trucking industry's much-derided paper logbooks. The shift to the electronic system will initially be voluntarily and...
Will Web 3.0 shatter axioms behind your current business model? What are the implications of Web 3.0 for marketing, supply chain management, IT infrastructure and information security? Aged-old assumptions underlying many business models no longer hold true as Web 3.0. Technology changes how we communicate...
Ever wonder if the network cabling within your commercial building is substandard or the network connectivity coming into your building is obsolete? Commercial buildings have lost value in the current economy. What most appraisers as well as owners don't even measure is the technology within...
For the past month, some Mac OS X users have been reporting their personal data missing after logging into their guest accounts, and Apple now says it's working on finding a fix. "We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases, and...
The patient portal launched in July 2007 at the Mayo Clinic was running smoothly until bedlam broke loose last December. The Medfusion system was on overload due to the software company's rapid growth, and for a month or so, online access was sporadic. Such are the growing...
According to statistics compiled by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the nation's third largest research university as measured by dollars spent on research. The most recent NSF ranking show UW-Madison lagging only Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at...
Fair use analysis is about as complex as determining whether an older work is protected by copyright. There are hundreds of cases that analyze and apply the fair use factors, including an analysis of the purpose and character of the use, the nature of the...