Ericsson’s victory in the auction for Nortel’s most profitable assets, the company’s CDMA and LTE Access units, is a major setback for Nokia Siemens, a joint venture of Nokia of Finland, a company founded in 1865, and Germany’s Siemens, founded in 1847. Although Nokia Siemens is the world’s second largest wireless networking company, it has had […]
Read MoreOne of the final chapters of Nortel’s history changed dramatically when Ericsson emerged as the winner of an auction that ended late Friday night for Nortel’s most profitable business unit. It was just over a month ago that Nortel announced it would sell its CDMA and LTE Access units to Nokia Siemens for $650 million in a […]
Read MoreContent can be a unwieldy beast to tame in any organization. With copious amounts of e-mail messages, files, and other documents being created every day, managing content can seem daunting. With the number of documents that knowledge workers create each day, organizations need to find new and better ways of managing them in order to […]
Read MoreThe passing of Walter Cronkite, a man so closely associated with television news that the word for news anchor in several countries is a variation of Cronkiter, serves as a demarcation between an information age and the age of information overload. For much of the 20th century, news was delivered once a day, first for […]
Read MoreOne might presume that technology companies do a better job with such mundane tasks as password security than the great unwashed masses. However, time and time again, this turns out not to be correct. Yesterday, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, posting in the company’s blog, revealed that a hacker had broken into an employee’s personal e-mail account and […]
Read MoreFor many knowledge workers, the e-mail inbox is the center of their universe. It has assumed this exalted position in part because e-mail is the path of least resistance for many activities. We should not, however, equate this status with it being the best or most efficient path. Knowledge workers overuse e-mail. They use it […]
Read MoreWith apologies to Paul Newman, “[W]hat we have here is a failure to communicate” is an aphorism that could be heard in the boardrooms of many companies. This is, in part, because few companies have deployed knowledge sharing and collaboration tools that allow co-workers to communicate effectively. One model for such platforms is the Collaborative […]
Read More“What can we do to call more attention to the problem of Information Overload?” is a question I hear almost daily from managers at companies who have recognized the extent to which the problem impacts their organizations. As of now, I have a much better answer than I previously had: participate in Information Overload Awareness Day, a […]
Read MoreThe original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, was shut down this past week by its current owner, AOL. The service, which provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service, had seen the number of users dwindle in recent years. At its height, the service boasted about having […]
Read MoreCollaboration on documents is a given in knowledge work. Seldom will one author be the sole contributor to a document; rather, two or more knowledge workers typically come together to create the content, make edits, fact check, and finalize. There are myriad pitfalls in this process ranging from lost efficiency as a document is e-mailed […]
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