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Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500™ Rankings announced

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The Technology Fast 500™ is an annual ranking by Deloitte of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. For the 14th consecutive year, there are more software companies on the Technology Fast [.].

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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The Essential CIO: Insights from IBM’s Global Chief Information Officer Study (2011)

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How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive and economic landscape? To find out, IBM interviewed 3,018 CIOs, spanning 71 countries and 18 industries. They shared how they are innovating with [.].

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Redesigning Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

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Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business, Life John Maeda with Becky Bermont The MIT Press (2011) “Ue ni wa ue ga aru” is a Japanese aphorism that epitomizes the nature of excellence: “Above up, there is something even higher above up.&# Those who [.].

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The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives Frank Moss Crown Business (2011) How and why “individuals empowered with radically new technologies…can succeed in transforming society” Note: The title of my review is taken from one of the observations (..)

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The McKinsey Quarterly’s Top Ten: Second Quarter 2011

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In case you missed them, see which articles have been most popular with The McKinsey Quarterly‘s readers in the second quarter of this year. Here are the first five. To learn which articles ranked #6-10 and read any/all of the ten articles, please click here. * * * 1. STRATEGY Sparking creativity in teams: [.].

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Voice of Experience: Aine Leddy (Morgan Stanley)

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Here is an excerpt from a profile of Aine Leddy (Executive Director, Investment Management Technology, Morgan Stanley) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer (January 24th, 2011), an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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