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Monthly Archives: September 2003

Analog vs. Digital

27-Sep-03

There are many ways to look at the differences between analog and digital. The way music CD are produced provides a useful analogy to use when looking at analog vs. digital uses of corporate information technology. There are three acronyms printed on CD cases to indicate how the music was recorded, mastered and stored: (definitions [...]

Analog vs. Digital

27-Sep-03

There are many ways to look at the differences between analog and digital. The way music CD are produced provides a useful analogy to use when looking at analog vs. digital uses of corporate information technology. There are three acronyms printed on CD cases to indicate how the music was recorded, mastered and stored: (definitions [...]

Quick example of individual productivity gains/savings based on "digital thinking"

27-Sep-03

Using the ideas from my last post I worked this up as a quick example of how changing the way you do things to take advantage of the capabilities of IT (hereafter referred to as digital thinking) can save you money (or at least productivity): Using MS Powerpoint in an analog** way to build presentations [...]

Quick example of individual productivity gains/savings based on "digital thinking"

27-Sep-03

Using the ideas from my last post I worked this up as a quick example of how changing the way you do things to take advantage of the capabilities of IT (hereafter referred to as digital thinking) can save you money (or at least productivity): Using MS Powerpoint in an analog** way to build presentations [...]

Do Productivity Increases Generate Economic Gains? (from Alertbox)

27-Sep-03

It’s all good and well to say that changing a process from an “analog” one to a “digital” one to take advantage of IT will improve productivity, reduce costs, etc., but does it really? Check out this article, Do Productivity Increases Generate Economic Gains? from Jakob Nielsen‘ Alertbox.

Time to Make Tech Work (from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

27-Sep-03

As I was putting together a business case to focus on making better use of the IT assets we currently own instead of buying/developing more, I received an e-mail notification for Time to Make Tech Work (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox). Perfect timing. Though the article is full of good ideas, three of them stand out for [...]

Strategy by design…

26-Sep-03

…or strategy by default? Where do you stand? Do things just happen to you, are you just along for the ride? Are you getting where you want to go, or are you simply getting where you are going? A couple of old proverbs (I forget where from): If you don’t know where you are going, [...]

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