Commentary

As Father’s Day and commencement ceremonies give way to summer heat, long weekends and beach vacations, we turn our attention to that pile of books on the nightstand and imagine that we'll have just enough time before Labor Day to catch up on our reading....

Disintermediation, outsourcing and globalization have changed the buying patterns of companies in many ways. The end user is playing an increasingly important role in the selection process and a clear trend is emerging toward acquiring solutions instead of products or equipment. Because IT departments are...

In my previous column, I started a discussion about what people are good for in the digital revolution. There’s a lot of blah, blah, blah out there about the complexity of current business and technical environments and the need for better judgment, greater flexibility, improved...

“People are born with talent and everywhere it is in chains. Fail to develop the talents of any one person, we fail Britain. Talent is 21st century wealth.” This quotation is taken from Tony Blair’s Labour Party Conference Speech in Bournemouth UK, in 1999. It...

Readers of DEMOletter know that I've written regularly about so- called social networks, services such as LinkedIn, Spoke, and Google's Orkut. These columns have run under titles such as "I'm LinkedIn - Now What," and they have questioned the value of these networks to both...