I help clients plan and manage technology related research, system development, strategy, and system consolidation projects. Since 2005 I’ve also been active with collaboration, web publishing, social media, blogging, and social networking. Based on recent research and consulting I’m developing a series on mobile technology planning. Here’s the series so far:
Listed below are recent entries in the MANAGING TECHNOLOGY section of this website:
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 09:27AM Collaboration can be messy. Convincing a group of people to work together to accomplish a common objective, especially when the group contains many people that don’t know each other, requires artful leadership.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 10:13AM Let’s stop talking about “social business” as if it were some sort of change in how organizations behave.
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 06:18AM IBM’s Luis Suarez’ blog post Social Media at Work presents basic arguments for why organizations, not just individuals, need to adopt social media as a normal part of their communication infrastructure. He suggests that organizations need to adopt social media because their employees and their customers are using social media.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 01:20AM Here are five things that people introducing new technology to help collaboration should think about:
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 09:34AM Google’s announcement of its Chromebook is more evidence of the shifting nature of technology-supported computing & communication ecosystems. It signifies more than just a continued “movement to the cloud.”
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 12:20PM Recently I was honored to serve as a “digital strategy” consultant on the National Academy of Engineering’s Changing the Conversation project.
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 01:42PM In Innovation Policy + Deficit Reduction = Politics As Usual? I described some of the policy debates concerning the appropriate role of the Federal government in promoting the types of innovation that can eventually simulate the U.S. economy and U.S. employment. There are many different practical, political, and philosophical issues involved in these debates that seem, to me, to boil down to basic and longstanding disagreements about the roles of the Federal government and the private sector.
Energy, Innovation, Policy, R&D Management, Research Monday, February 7, 2011 at 03:32PM Last year my favorite DC-based thinktank, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), launched a blog titled Innovation Policy Blog, subtitled “Innovation is Not a Partisan Issue.” Well, innovation may not be a partisan issue, but I learned today that innovation policy certainly can be.
Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 07:37AM Federal Computer Week recently published my op-ed piece Why best practices won’t fix Federal IT. I’d be very interested in hearing from GovLoop members what they think of it.
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 01:34PM According to the FederalTimes.com report 5 teams to tackle Gates call to improve efficiency, five Pentagon teams will focus on identification of Pentagon cost savings based on affordability, incentives, contract terms, metrics, and service contracts