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Labels Carry Weight – and Consequences

Brad Chacos — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:13:03 +0000

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Has a friend ever given you that precious tidbit of information? Ignore it – at least if you work in an FDA regulated industry. The FDA requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to meet exacting standards when it comes to packaging and labeling their products. It’s no surprise [...]

New Packaging Materials Keep You From Crying Over Spoiled Milk

Brad Chacos — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:33:25 +0000

What do you do when your milk reaches its expiration date? If you’re anything like me, you give it the sniff test and drink it if it smells okay… or pour it in your cereal if it doesn’t smell bad, but it doesn’t quite smell good either. How about that fish that’s been in the [...]

Facebook’s New Social Scandal

Ben Zvaifler — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:23:06 +0000

Clicking through the blogosphere you have undoubtedly paused to check out the building lawsuit against Facebook and Zuckerberg. The details of the lawsuit in a nutshell revolve around Paul Ceglia, an entrepreneur, conman and felon. Paul has recently stepped forward to claim his 50% ownership of the ballooning Facebook Corporation, and to be honest the [...]

Going Mobile: FREE Webinar

Ben Zvaifler — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:18:56 +0000

In an increasingly mobilized world the enterprise has to take added precautions to insure that employees are following safe and secure practice on their mobile devices. With the rapid adoption of smartphones comes many security risks that are left unanswered by management. Employees often access work files and emails from their devices unknowing of the [...]

ERM: Probable Versus Possible and Nuclear Reactors

dgiannetto — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:22:06 +0000

One of the biggest problems ERM suffers from in the market is simply defining it, making it easy for managers to understand how they can affect it, positively or negatively, and why it is just as real as the painfully tangible operation risks that shut down their production. Risk managers are constantly searching for examples [...]

ERM, GRC and Bad Starbucks Coffee (Part II)

dgiannetto — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:27:51 +0000

So how could Starbucks solve this problem of one bad cup of coffee spilling to creating one dissatisfied customer, and those customers adding up over time to topple them as a market leader? How could they measure this risk and mitigate it? But first remember, this is only a problem because Starbucks was a dominant [...]

The Rise of Enterprise Crowdsourcing

Ben Zvaifler — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:07:44 +0000

Crowdsourcing is a term tossed around loosely in several different verticals. The new technology continues to blaze a path while remaining virtually undefined, and apart from a few tech blogs, practically untouched by the media. The power and impact of croudsourcing on the future of the enterprise has been realized, but hardly scratches the service [...]

The Blog’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Daniel Cawrey — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:36:11 +0000

I read with amusement over the weekend the article written by New York Times columnist Verne G. Kopytoff entitled “Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites like Twitter”. In it, Kopytoff profiles millennials who no longer use blogs but instead gravitate to social networking sites to share their media: be it pictures, videos or [...]

FED CIO Targets $20 Billion pending on Cloud Compuitng

TechAxcess — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:41:51 +0000

Cloud computing vendors can be happy that their goods and services are on the Feds’ tech wish list. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has released the “Federal Cloud Computing Strategy” that says “an estimated $20 billion of the Federal Government’s $80 billion in IT spending is a potential target for migration to cloud computing solutions.” That’s [...]

What’s Facebook Really Worth

Daniel Cawrey — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:03:48 +0000

In terms of news outside of the technology sphere, Facebook sure gets a lot of exposure. It’s understandable: the company has been able to amass over 500 million users. That’s no small feat. But the idea that Facebook could become “the most valuable company in the world” makes me smell a bubble. And I’m not [...]