Commentary

A popular concept in business today is “performance-based management.” Like other vacuous terms prevalent in the management vernacular such as “customer-centric,” “value added,” and “mission critical,” it has all sorts of implied and sometimes contradictory meanings. ...

It's as if a collective "a-ha!" hit the brains of some of the Internet's earliest entrepreneurs, an a-ha that is spawning a new generation of Web browser tools designed to make finding and using Web-based information much easier than it is today....

Strategy and technology combine into one of the most volatile mixtures available to modern business. After numerous singed eyebrows or much worse, we’ve learned that randomly throwing matches at that combination is not a good idea. Unfortunately, many organizations seem to have translated that lesson...

A joint effort of industry, government, and more than 200 universities (including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University), Internet2 is leading the way toward revolutionary new network technologies and high-speed Internet-based applications. But effective access to Internet2’s main infrastructure is still limited. In...

Web sites have endured a hard struggle, and somehow survived where other traditional marketing tools and old principals failed. Now the same sites and domain names must face harsher realities once again, all to ensure high visibility and exposure. Today without visibility, on e-commerce, Web...