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Top News - Experts debate relevance of 'social search'
Researchers attending a conference on internet searching were divided on the use of social networking for serious research, with some saying traditional search engines are the more practical choice. Others, however, said social media can be effective tools for specific research tasks, such as conducting a survey or taking a snapshot of people's interests.
How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0 - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technology - Strategy
The heaviest users of Web 2.0 applications are also enjoying benefits such as increased knowledge sharing and more effective marketing. These benefits often have a measurable effect on the business.
The Myth about IT as a Utility (Educause July/August 2007)
Brian L. Hawkins and Diana G. Oblinger\n\nInformation technology is just a utility-like water or electricity. We'd all like that statement to be true. When we want to connect to the Internet, we want it to be there-instantly. And most of the time, it
Common Project Management Metrics Doom IT Departments to Failure - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
The metrics organizations commonly use to determine whether an IT project is a success or a failure-whether the project is completed on time, on budget, and delivered the initial requirements-do more harm than good for IT departments, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
Digital Renderings: The Z Curve and IT Investment
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In particular, it’s easy to see that all the things that push a new technology up the S Curve toward ubiquity—heavy investment, standardization, homogenization, price deflation, best practice diffusion, consolidation of the vendor base—also erode its ability to distinguish one company from others. As ubiquity grows, strategic potential shrinks. This relationship can be illustrated graphically by adding another line to the S Curve chart—what I call a Z Curve—that plots the technology’s potential for providing competitive advantage. Here’s what that looks like:
This pattern of evolution can, furthermore, be usefully divided into three stages:
Digital Renderings: Enough Already: IT's Decreasing Returns
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It is, in fact, a hallmark of information systems in general. The big economic returns come relatively early after the introduction of a new system – when a labor-intensive manual process is first automated – and then the returns from successive technology investments steadily decline, eventually turning negative. As the distinguished Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon argued in a 2000 article published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, “a second distinguishing feature of the development of the computer industry, after the decline in price, is the unprecedented speed with which diminishing returns set in.”
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