Monthly Archives: October 2011

A Manufacturing Democracy

By Stephanie Neil | Published: October 31, 2011

Social media has changed the way business is conducted in the enterprise. Now, Local Motors has introduced community-oriented manufacturing, designing and building innovative cars through open source crowdsourcing and micro-factories.

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Manufacturers and Connected Products: A Dangerous Combo

By Chris Chiappinelli | Published: October 24, 2011

Manufacturers with no history of cybersecurity are now launching products that connect to the Internet and the cloud. It’s time to define this new category of manufacturing and work to avoid data breaches of valuable customer information.

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An Outage Obstructs Enterprise Mobility

By Stephanie Neil | Published: October 17, 2011

Last week, BlackBerry users experienced what it’s like to work without their smartphones. This server outage was a nuisance for individuals, but a real productivity problem for large enterprises that depend upon enterprise mobility.

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Steve Jobs on Sustaining the Future

By Chris Chiappinelli | Published: October 10, 2011

The death of Apple founder Steve Jobs reminds us that a business is only as strong as its next idea, and that business sustainability depends on a company’s ability to project its worth far into the future.

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The Big Data Dilemma

By Stephanie Neil | Published: October 3, 2011

As more unstructured data circulates through an organization, companies that figure out how to integrate it into the enterprise will have a competitive edge.

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