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Rasmus: KMWorld Connect 2020 Collaboration is critical for the everyday business and personal practices required to make remote work well. Due to COVID-19, businesses have more workers doing their job duties from home, leading to an increase in organizations having to make tough choices quickly. Even though telecommuting is not new, organizations can effectively design…
I was recently interviewed by Marpipe on Evergreen Content. They interviewed several thought leaders on the components of evergreen content. You can read the Marpipe on Evergreen Content analysis here: A Brief Component Analysis of Evergreen Content And how to apply that framework to advertising Input to the Marpipe interview survey “What’s your idea…
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Our principal analyst, Daniel W. Rasmus was quoted in an April 6 post at Newtech Recycling. We spoke to Daniel W. Rasmus with Serious Insights who told us “If they still work but don’t have resale value, I will donate them toThe Boys and Girls Club.” This is just an example of one charity that…
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Rasmus quoted at TechTarget: 5 tips for HR: Employee communications during coronavirus outbreak “HR needs to own the practice of remote work,” said Daniel W. Rasmus, founder and principal analyst at Serious Insights, an industry analyst firm. “They need to facilitate the discussion about how people work, how measurements change, and lead collaboratively with IT…
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eWeek coverage here. Read the original post here.
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Serious Insights: Top Research 2019 Here is the Top Research in 2019 from Serious Insights: What is the difference between Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom? Review: SanDisk iXpand™ Flash Drive Developing a Winning Thought Leadership Strategy Review: TheBrain 10 What is an Information Worker? What is the Chief Knowledge Officer Job? Review: Rocketbook app and…
Rasmus featured with KMWorld 2018 Presentation Highlight: AI Algorithms and the Black Box In his session at KMWorld 2018, titled “Rethinking KM for an Age of AI & IoT,” Serious Insights founder and principal analyst Daniel W. Rasmus explored the impact of AI and IoT on KM as machines get better and better at sensing…
Excerpt: Can a computer become God? Or, more to the point, could humans invent AI that can convincingly impersonate God — and if so, would humans bother to worship it? That was one of the questions explored Saturday by technology experts, the faithful and everyone in between at a conference devoted to artificial intelligence and…
Daniel W. Rasmus on ‘VR in Ready Player One’ at Forbes.com Daniel W. Rasmus, who runs the consultancy Serious Insights and keynotes VR conferences worldwide, has been watching the space since the 1990s, first as an analyst with Forrester Research and later as director of business insights at Microsoft. Like Rubin, Rasmus is underwhelmed with…
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Singularity Digital Enterprise Keynote I was honored to speak at a Singularity Digital Enterprise (www.singularityde.com) event in Lisbon, Portugal. During my visit, I also had the opportunity to talk about the future of work with several press outlets and analysts. Here are links to the commentary. Amazon e Microsoft juntas em Portugal para falarem sobre Inteligência…
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Scenario Planning for Human Resources Proud to have an article on scenario planning published in India’s premier HR publication. If we all knew exactly how the future would turn out, there would be no need to negotiate plans. We would simply accept the future and decide how best to provide for the needs of our…
Navigating the ethical and social impacts of VR Last December, Dan participated in panel titled ‘Navigating the ethical and social impacts of VR’ at VRX San Fransisco. This post includes the original panel copy and list of speakers, along with the audio of the session. Serious Insights thanks VRX for the us of this file.…
Workplace by Facebook is a private social network that has the same look and feel as Facebook, making it an easy tool for employees to adopt, but keeps corporate data separate and secure, Codorniou says. Unlike Facebook, which is supported by advertising, Facebook plans to charge businesses to use Workplace. And its pricing strategy is…
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Waterside Publications released Twelve Ways to Escape an Alien today by Serious Insights Founder and Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus published. The book is available on Kindle immediately and print on demand soon. About the book Ever question those all-too-convenient escapes from aliens on Star Trek, Lost in Space, or Farscape? In Twelve Ways to Escape…
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Let’s face it, not much can hold a candle to a dynamic speaker or great workshop facilitator. Organizations have tried CD-ROMs, video, communities of practice, interactive websites, and webinars, but all fall short in both engaging learners and creating meaningful learning experiences. But virtual reality, or VR, is coming, and it not only offers more…
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Eucalypt Media Thought Leadership post: ‘Why Thought Leadership Content Marketing Is Crucial for Modern Executives’ features Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus As Daniel Rasmus wrote in Fast Company, “Thought leadership should intrigue, challenge, and inspire even people already familiar with a company. It should help start a relationship where none exists, and it should enhance…
Comments on Oculus Featured at InvestorPlace It has been almost two years since Facebook (FB) dropped $2 billion on Oculus VR, a virtual reality company operating independently of its parent since the acquisition. At the time, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told consumers and investors that immersive gaming — an area where Oculus already had “big plans” — would…
The future is coming and it is either virtual, augmented or both. In this new special report on VR and AR written by Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus, we explore what virtual reality and augmented reality mean to business, what business needs to do to get ready, what developers must do to deliver value, and how the…
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The Brave New World of Enterprise Collaboration A linked in post titled: Sprouting Reads #1: The Brave New World of Enterprise Collaboration, picked up ideas from the new Serious Insights report, “Ten Innovations That Should Drive Collaboration Technology.” If swimming down the stream-view of 21st century post-normal corporation leaves you gasping for the fresh breath of…
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Spending all day innovating around the candle does not get us to the light bulb. Daniel W. Rasmus Thank you to Kyle Johnson for the shout-out on a Gilbane Conference keynote quote, and his riff on innovation. Here’s a quote from his blog post: Innovation is messy. Higher education is messy. Innovation in higher education…
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Serious Insights International Data Use Study drives reflection From USA Today: And with good reason. Oddly, only half say they’ve bought a SIM card for their phones, which might help them save money. Instead, they power down their devices or use them less, fearful of a huge phone bill, according to Dan Rasmus, the…
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Serious Insights featured at Staples.com: Essential Software for Your Small Business Computers But don’t always rely on the most popular solution. “Find a tool that works for you,” says Daniel Rasmus, founder and principal analyst at business consulting company Serious Insights in Sammamish, WA. He suggests considering the ease of sharing files with clients, size of storage…
Serious Insights International Data Survey posted Mobile Enterprise: Even though they think mobile connectivity is a must-have at home, most Americans when travelling abroad compromise work and fun by cutting back on mobile usage, according to new research from Serious Insights for Telestial Inc. The report, “American Travelers: Not Masters of International Data,” also found six…
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I have become even more deeply aware of this because of a survey that has prostrated itself before me. It suggests that Americans are so confused about international data plans — and even what constitutes data and what doesn’t — that they completely change their behavior. This is the equivalent of Americans ceasing to ask…
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Stat: 82 Percent Worry About Mobile Data Charges Overseas Do your clients worry about bill shock from mobile data use while traveling? According to a new study by Serious Insights and Telestial Inc., it could be harming their productivity. Six out of ten significantly change their behavior and use of data, becoming less likely to respond right away…
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Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus comments on the ‘Facebook at Work’ announcement in CIO online. “Facebook’s big issue is that they have no enterprise presence outside of ad sales and marketing analytics,” according to Daniel Rasmus, founder and principal analyst at Serious Insights. IT departments are still extremely cautious about bringing new apps into…
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Sketches of Spain and Other Poems is the first book of poetry from Daniel W. Rasmus, author of Listening to the Future and Management by Design. Rasmus’s poetry has appeared for several years in leading poetry journals like Barrow Street, Indiana Review and Slipstream. Sketches of Spain and Other Poems For the first time, you will…
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Making Sense Out of Chaos, While Avoiding Vendor Lock-In December 17, 2014 10:00am — 11:00am PST SPONSORED BY Harmon.ie FEATURED PANELISTS Daniel W. Rasmus Industry Analyst, HiveMind Network Philip Sheldrake Managing Partner, Euler Partners David Lavenda Vice President of Product Strategy, harmon.ie MODERATED BY Larry Hawes The promise of the cloud has…
There was little trepidation. I had been to big technology shows before: CES and Comdex both sprawled across the vastness of Las Vegas. And as expected, Comic-Con was a more contained event, a more intimate venue, despite its propensity to spill into the streets of San Diego. Comic-Con is not small by any means, but…
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Daniel W. Rasmus and Stephen Purpura, CEO of Context Relevant, Inc. will address the Data Summit on May 13, 2014 at the New York Hilton Midtown, New York City, NY at 4:15pm. Event details follow: A105: The New World of Business Intelligence and Analytics 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. New analytics and business intelligence solutions…
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1/21/2014 17 Uncertainties that will Define (or Redefine) Your 2014 January 21, 2014 Sammamish, Washington, Daniel W. Rasmus, the author of ‘Listening to the Future’ and ‘Management by Design’ has released his list of the 2014 global uncertainties that will force businesses and governments to remain nimble and agile as…
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Market Overview With the rise of mobile devices, the number of mind mapping tools has risen in recent years, yet only a few in the growing mind map market should be considered enterprise-ready. Mind mapping tools have evolved from simple drawing tools into complex environments that include collaborative authoring, project management, quantitative model building, dashboards, and…
HP blogger Andy Smith picks up thought leadership guidance from my Fast Company post.
An interview with iPhone Life editor and publicspeakingguy.com host Alex Cequera around my thoughts and experiences around public speaking. Enjoy.
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For one national hamburger chain, internal Yammer talk and listening to Twitter altered a new product. The Serendipity Economy can demonstrate value well beyond improved cycle times or reduced costs. Here’s how. Read the entire post at Fast Company: The Serendipity Economy: How Spontaneity Plus Social Networking Drives Innovation Here is an…
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With Frederick’s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. This perspective created the industrial economy lens through which most managers perceive…
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Strategy is messy, chaotic, and transformative. Just like the end of a youthful romance. So who better than the Bard of Breakups herself to offer searing guidance on how to break with your plan? Read the entire post at Fast Company: Let Taylor Swift Help You Break Up With Your Strategic Plan
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Employees increasingly expect to use their personal devices at work. To meet this demand and protect proprietary information, companies have to ensure IT departments can support a BYOD infrastructure. Read the entire post at Chief Learning Officer Magazine: How to Make BYOD Work
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iPhone 5 cases continue to arrive on the market in all shapes and sizes. Here is a roundup of a few of the more unusual ones I’ve received over the last few weeks. Read the entire post here: Top 8 Most Unusual iPhone 5 Cases
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Peter Drucker, who remains the guru of management, had little to say on leadership. In fact, Drucker believed that leadership was only useful inside of organizations when viewed in aggregate. Indeed, Drucker said in his 1973 book Management that “It is therefore inappropriate to speak of managers as leaders.” That statement followed a paragraph in…
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Education in Uncertain Times was the topic of the afternoon for Daniel Rasmus of Bellevue College (Neb.). Rasmus is the author of Management by Design: Applying Design Principles to the Work Experience (2010) and Listening to the Future: Why It’s Everybody’s Business (2008). He shared various uncertainties facing education—including technology, funding and costs, textbooks and…
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1. Belkin FastFit Keyboard Cover ($79.99) 2. Clamcase pro ($169) 3. AGPtek® Universal Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard ($13.39) Read the entire post at iPhone Life: 3 New Keyboards Provide iPad Typists More Options
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On May 18th-19th May, 2013 Dan presented to the World Cultural Forum in Hangzhou, China. Here is the abstract of the talk: As we seek to create an international consensus to improve the ecological state of the planet, it is imperative that we map concepts, and reconcile definitions in to order share knowledge more effectively…
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Read the review: ‘When Gadgets Betray Us’ Betrays Readers with Fear and Few Answers at PopMatters.
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In his presentation on “The Serendipity Economy,” strategist and author Daniel W. Rasmus drew a distinction between industrial age measures of productivity, which focus on predictable outputs and process improvements, versus the creation of value that cannot be defined or predicted in advance but deserves equal consideration. In the same way that having an office next door…
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Science fiction promised a future of intelligent devices designed to serve their owners. But today’s technology serves its manufacturers more than its end user. Read the entire post at Fast Company.
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As books become digital and online retailers distribute college branded T-shirts, Pillow Pets, and logo-emblazoned caps, the future of college stores faces many uncertainties. College retailers, however, hold advantages other retailers would give their right cash register for: a captive audience, a well-recognized local (or national) brand, and a steady stream of new customers…
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My new paper: Working in a Post-PC World now available from Cisco. Click here to register for a copy.
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Review: Kindle Fire HD 7 tablet By stripping away the geeky shell of Google’s Android, with the Kindle Fire HD 7 Amazon has developed a device that delivers the shopping, listening and viewing (and occasional gaming and apping) that its customers demand. With a speedy processor, a nice 1280 x 800 pixel multi-touch screen, and…
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Thought leadership isn’t just for individuals. Here’s how your business can use thought leadership to shape people’s perception of your company and its products–the right way. Read the complete post at Fast Company: The Golden Rules Of Creating Thoughtful Thought Leadership
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Read the entire article here: http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/daniel-rasmus-science-scenarios
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On the other hand, Daniel Rasmus, an expert on new ways for businesses to organize themselves (and often a speaker at UBM’s E2 conferences), counters that the evils of email are overblown. “We must all ask ourselves the question of value then: ‘Is managing e-mail really worthy of my time?’ I would propose that with…
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I was interviewed recently about Windows 8 in business by Wired (For Business, Windows 8 Can Wait). They seemed to have picked up the least interesting part of my comments, which focused on the pattern of business adopting every other version of Windows. That was a bit of a through away, but it has to…
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Review: Icon HD + The Nerd Bluetooth Headset Review: Goal Zero Rock Out Portable Speaker Review: Griffin Insert Case for iPad
Read the entire post: How to Design Conflict Out of Your Organization at mylinkage.com. How to Design Conflict Out of Your Organization by Daniel W. Rasmus By Kristin Schepici on September 25, 2012 My book, Management by Design, offers readers a methodology that creates purposeful engagement in the design of work experiences. Too often, we…
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As far as I could tell, my day-to-day work was unaffected by the iOS update. And then Friday night my wife asked me to play “Your Move” by Yes. I opened Music on my iPad 2 and found it empty. I went to System Preferences and discovered that iTunes match was turned off. I flipped…
The iPad was purportedly inspired by the Star Trek P.A.D.D. or Personal Access Display Device. Those fictional devices had character. As much as I love my iPad, it is to some degree mundane in its elegance, and most of the other manufacturers have chosen to follow the path of exposed glass displays with smooth…
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Help For Cloud-Storage Hoarders post now up at Fast Company.
Since Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad put forth the idea of “core competencies” in a 1990 Harvard Business Review article, “The Core Competence of the Corporation,” organizations have taken this insight as permission to outsource various parts of their business operations. With “core competencies” organizations became machines with core functions that made the machine work,…
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LightWedge Verso Series Offers Stylish iPad Protection An iPhone Power Boosting Trifecta from Qmadix MoPix Video Service Transforms Independent Films into Apps The world of film has become increasingly democratized with the advent of the Internet. People can create films and distribute them with ease. Unfortunately, posting a video to YouTube may generate hits,…
In a recent conversation with Phil McKinney, former HP Chief Innovation Officer and author of Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation, we discussed innovation and theory. McKinney said that much of the literature about innovation comes from theorists, not practitioners. I responded that some of us assert practical innovation insights informed by…
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When I first opened the samples from the mEdge team, I was a little thrown by a green iPad case, its heavy, olive-colored nylon case covered in loops, and what to most people who have seen it, matching olive-colored carpet. The case waited in line and kept kind of slipping down the testing queue. But…
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The impact of outcomes-based education on workforce preparedness Jill Elaine Hughes, UOPX Writer Network, April 6, 2011 Dan’s Quotes: How might the American education system address this deficiency? Daniel W. Rasmus is a Liberal Arts Fellow at Bellevue College in Bellevue, Wash., and the author of the books “Listening to the Future” (Wiley, 2008) and…
Our views of diversity in America are changing, but they aren’t keeping up with the global reality that now faces American companies. Traditionally, diversity-focused on the integration of people from racial, gender, physical ability, and religious perspectives inside of large corporations motivated by political or operational imperative, or social good. The idea was to create…
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Samsung Galaxy Note A “phablet” and a compromise, but perhaps a good one See my review of the Samsung Galaxy Note at Pencomputing.com. Also cross-posted on my blog here.
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The Twelve South BookBook: Turn Your iPad into a Classic I love books. When I acquire a classic and it ships to me, I wait patiently, but attentively, sometimes with speculative anticipation. This time was no different. I have looked longingly at this book more than once, in small shops in San Francisco’s SOMA…
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I’ve switched recently from a single function power charger in my car to the Qmadix Vehicle Power Charger with Auxiliary USB Port. The white product with blue glow (from the internal LED indicating the unit has power) is well made and offer good utility. Read the full review at iPhone Life.
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Bag manufacturers spend much of their design budgets guessing what enough people will like in a bag so that a particular bag will sell well enough to make a profit. People want specific things from their bags. In a world of 7 Billion people, you need a lot of bag designs.Thus companies like fūl create…
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As a follow-up to Tony Greenberg’s Forbes piece, Clout v. Klout: Why They Aren’t the Same Thing, And Never Will Be, Tony published my full interview remarks as a follow-up. You can find them here: http://www.tonygreenberg.com/2012/04/18/clout-v-klout-why-they-arent-the-same-thing-and-never-will-be/#comments
As a follow-up to Tony Greenberg’s Forbes piece, Clout v. Klout: Why They Aren’t the Same Thing, And Never Will Be, Tony published my full interview remarks as a follow-up. You can find them here: http://www.tonygreenberg.com/2012/04/18/clout-v-klout-why-they-arent-the-same-thing-and-never-will-be/#comments
I have a quote in Tony Greenberg’s Forbes blog posted today. See Clout v. Klout: Why They Aren’t the Same Thing, And Never Will Be at Forbes for the entire post by Greenberg.
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For more about the last trend noted by Woo, read my post entitled Showrooming and Product Customization. In the Forrester report Mulpuru concluded, “Companies need to think about the permanent implications of smaller margins on stores in the longer-term future and how their multichannel initiatives can help to offset this trend.” Multi-channel commerce has indeed…
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My new blog is up at iPhone Life. See my latest reviews and opinions on a regular basis. Vendors, please contact me to have a product or service review.
danielwrasmus.com has a fresh new look co-developed with Bellevue, WA Fresh Consulting.
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10 Forces Shaping the Workplace of the Future article out in Talent Management Magazine.
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Leadership Development for Uncertain Times interview at Chief Learning Officer
Social media study picked up on Xerox Innovative Solutions for Higher Education blog. Read the commentary here: Social Media Impact: Illusion or Reality?
Management Maxims From Kim Kardashian, Communications Genius on Fast Company drives dialog about celebrity and management.
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Hi everybody. Enterprise 2.0 is a little over a week away, so I thought I would give you a sense of what we’ll be doing in the workshop. First, I will provide an introduction to scenario planning. As discussed in previous blogs, the future of the organization is dependent on context, and that context is…
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Read the very viral article by Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus at CIO.com: 10 Lessons from Angry Birds That Can Make You a Better CIO Note, these are the author’s actual scores (click the image for a larger view). at CIO.COM
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