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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

People are not given adequate opportunity to provide input, nor educated on the new process and applications they are expected to use, and they blame IT for imposing something on them they do not like. Worse, too often we find people on both sides fully cognizant that they’re heading for a train wreck, and then hopping onboard anyway.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Rather than serving as an adjunct to the core business, or merely a cost center, IT is becoming intrinsic to the very products and services that every company offers. Why is this? Mainly because, as Marc Andreessen puts it, " software is eating the world."

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Hispanics to elevate the influence of their voices as educators, corporate leaders and policy makers — a critical need when you consider that Hispanics will represent 30% of America by 2050. Think profit center, not cost center. I witnessed this first-hand as I attended three of the events.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Hispanics to elevate the influence of their voices as educators, corporate leaders and policy makers — a critical need when you consider that Hispanics will represent 30% of America by 2050. Think profit center, not cost center. I witnessed this first-hand as I attended three of the events.