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Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami?

Rich Gee Group

Some examples: I never load software anymore – in fact I don’t even use my CD/DVD player. Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. As moving parts disappear (CD’s, Software, Wires, Hard Drives) do the systems, personnel, costs, support and focus also decline? Unported License.

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Effective Communication: Begin With The End In Mind | Guy Harris.

The Recovering Engineer

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. Reply Effective Communication: Begin With The End In Mind : Guy Harris … | Nuclear Engineering Addict says: March 19, 2010 at 9:58 am [.]

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Are We Really Prepared for a More Automated Future?

Lead Change Blog

There have been some really great reads on the topic ranging from the 2011 ebook, Race Against the Machine by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson out of MIT, to the recent LinkedIn post, What Happens When Millions of Jobs Are Lost Because of Automation? Automation and the future of work. Are enough citizens taking this topic seriously?

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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. But let’s go further on education.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters.

Brand 267
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Our Social Brain

Coaching Tip

Software engineers and designers are basing their thinking on what has come to be called Dunbar’s Number. . A paper published in 2011 found that on Twitter the average number of other people a user regularly interacts with falls between 100 and 200. An Integrated Leadership Team. Related articles.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Would the traditional host organization reject the new software center as an alien entity?