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Tuesday, May 21, 2002 |
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To attract some of the world’s top inventors to participate, Myhrvold and Jung not only want to compensate them well but also aim to tap into the sheer joy that inventive people draw from their work—an emotion that they believe has largely been missing in corporate labs for a long time. As Myhrvold puts it, “Invention is so exhilarating that most true inventors would do it for free.”
See invention factory . [Memex 1.1] Related Info?. 
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Monday, May 20, 2002 |
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Chief execs upbeat despite downturn. Despite massive unemployment, sluggish sales and bottom-feeding stock prices, executives at tech start-ups are optimistic about the future of their sector.
Although most will slash administrative and travel expenses, many say they will soon expand employee ranks. Eighty-nine percent of the CEOs say they plan to hire new employees, but most are being conservative. Of those hiring, 49 percent anticipate adding less than 25 new employees; 20 percent plan to add 26-49 new employees; and 12 percent expect to hire 49-100 new employees. Only 6 percent say they plan to add 101-200 new employees, and a paltry 2 percent plan to hire more than 200 employees. [CNET News.com] Related Info?.
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Friday, May 17, 2002 |
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We've always said that privacy is like tailoring. If you want a perfect suit, you have to let a tailor probe around in spots usually reserved for a spouse's touch. Without that sort of intrusion, you may as well just buy the thing off the rack. People who have never worn a hand tailored suit may not understand the extraordinary differences in fit and feel. Be assured, the intrusion is usually worth the return.
That doesn't mean that we want everyone groping us trying to make their products fit.
In a solid article (from the Direct Marketing - DM - perspective), Lee T. Capps, a CRM pro now working for Revere, makes the case that better customer service can be provided by merging and sharing CRM data between companies. Of course, consumer choice and participation gets short shrift in the discussion, that's the perspective of a DM pro.
Yes, we'd like Safeway to better understand our needs (right now they're just tracking what we bought, not what we came for and couldn't get) and, yes, we want things that fit better in general.
But, we want to decide which tailors we let stick their hands into our crotch. We're protective down there.
CRM technology will migrate rapidly into the Labor Market. The combination of blogs, CRM and solid human networking skills will be the model of Human Capital Acquisition over the next century.
Observing the dynamics of CRM in the consumer markets with a critical eye on the relationship between choice and privacy is a critical element of developing effective systems.
(Privacy Digest alerted us to the article) Related Info?.
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Seniors are the fastest growing group of online users and a powerful resource to focus on the emerging labor shortage.
This group mirrors the early Internet population:
- About 60 percent are men.
- Forty percent are women.
- They're more likely than their offline peers to be married.
- They're highly educated.
- They have relatively high retirement incomes.
Characteristics:
- Many wired seniors are newcomers to the Web.
- They're more likely than younger Americans to be online on a typical day.
- The most fervent wired seniors say the Web helps them better connect with loved ones and makes it easier get information they seek.
The five top uses of the Web by seniors:
- using email
- looking up hobby information
- seeking financial information
- reading the news
- checking weather reports
Ooopsie....looks like we're almost seniors by these definitions. From ClickZ Related Info?.
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Thursday, May 16, 2002 |
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Data dyspepsia blights the workforce. One of the biggest challenges facing an organisation today is filtering the good from the bad information. It's the classic signal/noise equation. We all like to get the right signals--and all hate the noise. But for each and every employee these are highly debatable categories. Gartner found, quite surprisingly, that the most useful information employees receive comes from personal networks, contact with friends and colleagues, and emails--rather than the finely tuned information source that is supposed to be the Intranet. But how do you manage that? The other option is some kind of sophisticated knowledge management solution--but no one has even figured out what this is yet so don't expect that one to solve your woes. [The Register]
John Robb notes: The solution isn't a sophisticated KM solution, it is K-Logs. A well authored K-Log provides a filtered knowledge stream based on the Intranet. It is simple, elegant, and leverages the Intranet -- the perfect way to improve the signal to noise ratio.
Klogs are the way that blogs can be applied behind the firewall as information management pools. The arena is in its easrly stages and worth investigating. There is an ongoing conversation at Yahoo that you can join. (see the future is now). Related Info?.
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Robb takes a long look at The Economist's view of productivity. It's possible, we suppose, that rapidly expanding productivity is an answer, of sorts, to the labor shortage. Certainly, in a macro perspective, freeeing up white collar labor will make it possible to replace all of the truck drivers.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
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Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
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test, please ignore .
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