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On November 4, 2011

Who’s Hurt by Insider Trading

One would think that after all of the publicity in recent years about insider trading and its illegality, that such a phenomenon would be a thing of the past. Not so. On Oct. 13, 2011, the hedge


On November 4, 2011

How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education

Four years ago Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted that online education would take off slowly and then hit everyone by surprise: the S-curve effect. And indeed, while it initially grew slowly, online education has exploded over the past…


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Why Peter Drucker Distrusted Facts

Management consulting is an industry built on facts. A "fact-based decision" (a phrase that returns 1.8 million Google results) requires legions of analysts to gather and crunch data, and it so happens that consulting firms supply precisely such people. Facts…


On November 4, 2011

Elephant Rampage Ahead: SoLoMo Loose and Gaining Ground

Forecasters are trying desperately to get a handle on the pending collision between social, local and mobile media, or SoLoMo. The part that most of them forget is the reality check. It's even better and much bigger


On November 4, 2011

What’s the Holdup on iTunes Match?

When Apple announced its new subscription music service iTunes Match in June, it vowed the offering would be online by the end of October. Well, Halloween has come and gone, and Apple fans still haven't seen the


On November 4, 2011

SAP Gets Serious About Mobility

SAP has updated SAP Business One, rolling out its 8.82 iteration for both the on-premises and hosted versions. A point release, the upgrade cannot be said to be a major leap forward in terms of functionality, but


On November 4, 2011

Be Your Own Hero

When I was growing up, I looked for a savior in just about everyone.

There were too many fruitless visits from child protective services. There were too many police cars that arrived to "quiet things down" only to let them…