Aspirations—and current expectations—for IT have never been higher. Executives continue to set exacting demands for IT support of business processes, and they see an even larger role for IT in a competitive environment increasingly shaken up by technology disruptions. These are among the results of our sixth annual business technology survey, where we asked executives across all functions, industries, and regions about their companies’ use of, expectations for, and spending on IT. Looking ahead, executives expect IT to create new platforms to support innovation and growth, help guide strategy with data and advanced analytics, and stay on top of possible new roles for mobile devices. For IT leaders, the good news is that along with these higher expectations, most respondents also see a greater willingness to spend more on IT.
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Original posted to: The CIVICUS Blog
It’s been a great two days and I am excited to get the third underway. Yet it saddens me to note that with the third day comes the end of the CIVICUS World Assembly, the largest gathering of civil society in the world.
An unintended consequence? Read the rest of this entry »
Getting refused a visa isn’t anything I look forward to, so I always avoided applying for one except when I have strong application, one I am certain will stand the stress and strain test it might be subjected to. Read the rest of this entry »
Its lunch time at the launch of Google Engage in South Africa – and I thought to share tips on gate crashing registration/invitation only events.
These worked! Read the rest of this entry »
Here is my first post from my Blackberry OS 6 device.
Hmm…
I love the increasing ubiquity.
Quite easy to use, I miss the read more button though, but I really like this!
The editor looks like an ancient text editor, but it works!
Love,
Oluwakorede
Its been one full day since my invite to Google+ worked.
Well, the invites never really arrived, despite the persistence of a good friend and brother of mine, who against all odds sent the invite a record two (maybe three) times.
I also left my name and email address several times on the Google+ homepage for considerations for access once the field test is over or has been expanded to take in more testers. I secretly prayed, this would not be another long test like was with Gmail which was in beta for how many years…? Read the rest of this entry »
First published as: Demystifying Web Analytics
Web analytics is Business Intelligence (BI) for your website. Read the rest of this entry »
I stumbled on an article on Techcrunch announcing a cool maths tool, moments ago!
Its an announcement I wished happened ten years ago, and one that makes me think Physics and Maths Majors in colleges and unis students today are lucky!
Read original article by: Erick Schonfeld (Techcrunch)
One of my favorite demos at Disrupt NYC was from an education startup called Desmos that is reinventing the whiteboard to make it browser-based and interactive (watch their Disrupt video below).
One of the killer features of the Desmos Whiteboard is an interactive calculator that graphs equations as you write them. (Founder Eli Luberoff was a double math and physics major at Yale). Desmos has now taken that and rewritten it as a standalone online graphing calculator. It instantly draws the equations as you update them, it’s free, browser-based, color-coded, and you can share any graph with a bitly link. Read the rest of this entry »
(Preferred title: What the hell is web analytics?)
Web analytics is Business Intelligence (BI) for your website.
Let’s start with an example. You own a shoe shop, and you want at the end of every month, quarter or year to know stuffs like: Read the rest of this entry »
Read: Civil Society Statement to the e-G8 and G8
I have always seen the Internet as a free space. One where you can be all you want and do all you want.
My believe of the Internet’s freedom is underscored by the virtual absence of any regulatory body besides ICANN and the regional NICs regulating the assignments of public IP addresses and domain names - and even these statutory agencies and bodies do not necessarily have daily contacts with the vast majority of the internet populace like the government of a country will normally have with its people. Read the rest of this entry »
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