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The benefits of crowdsourcing, 04/18/07
Scott Anthony, a colleague of industry guru Clayton Christensen and managing director of Innosight in Watertown, Mass., says social networking, which encourages companies and individuals to collaborate via technology, is helping to drive openness.
Network downtime unavoidable, IT execs say, 04/17/07
A majority of IT executives expect in 2007 to experience at least a few hours of network downtime, which could impact their revenue.
University research labs held back by home-run mentality, report finds, 04/17/07
Universities spend so much energy trying to get huge payoffs from a handful of their researchers’ technology developments that lots of other technologies never get a chance to be patented, licensed, commercialized or used.
From Microsoft Subnet: Microsoft flips the switch on $550M data center
Reuters is reporting that Microsoft is about to flip the switch to its new $550 million server farm in Quincy, Wash., big enough to house seven soccer fields and the backbone to its fight against Google and others in the Web services space.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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