Enterprise Reinvention: How to Improve Corporate Performance Through Knowledge-Based Management 

Community Guest Blog post by By Jack Bergstrand

Most Companies Are Still Stuck in the 1920s

Enterprise reinvention and enterprise risk management have been a challenge to implement in many large organizations. The key to unlocking the potential of both is to understand and overcome why the traditional implementation approach consistently struggles.

Social Media Legal Bytes for Techies

Community Guest Blog post by By Deborah Gonzalez 

Social media platforms, smart phones and applications are changing the way we conduct business and interact socially with friends, family, and colleagues. Today, discussions involving Facebook®, Android®, and Angry Birds® are common.  The iPad® became an immediate phenomenon and developing  applications for it has become a billion dollar business, as well as a fun hobby for techies who enjoy the challenge of creating the next best thing and competing in the open market of creativity.

Are You Ready for the Dodd-Frank Act and Its Whistleblower Provisions?

Community Guest Blog post by By Cindy Knezevich 

On July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or Dodd-Frank, was signed into law by President Obama, and on May 25, 2011, the SEC established rules to govern these procedures moving forward. The Act brought sweeping changes to the financial industry in response to the recent economic meltdown. There are a few things everyone should understand about the Dodd-Frank Act and, specifically, Section 922, which is now commonly referred to by some as the “whistleblower provision.”

Telemedicine, Unified Collaboration, and Holly’s Laptop

Community Guest Blog post by By Taliaferro Smith 

Unified collaboration coupled with today’s telemedicine technology seems the most likely transformative avenue.  Telemedicine is really nothing more than the application of new technology to the art and science of medicine that allows a practitioner to bridge the gap of distance between themselves and a patient.  There are certainly many benefits to breaking down barriers to care.

Community Guest Blog post by By Anne Thallman

Community involvement and work full time?  Impossible!

Have you ever attended a user group meeting in Atlanta?  Did you know that there are over 40 user groups in Atlanta?  If you have never attended a local technology user group or are curious of the benefits you could derive from regular participation in user groups, then read on to discover how you can stay current in your favorite technologies, meet like-minded individuals, and give back to the community. 

Migration

Community Guest Blog post by By Anne Thallman

To upgrade or not to upgrade…that is the question….

Whether it is better to keep an existing company portal without the latest features and functionality or suffer weeks of enterprise-wide chaos through an upgrade may not have been the point of Hamlet’s soliloquy, but upgrading a corporate portal can be just as dramatic as avenging your father’s murder.  Well….maybe not, but the questions that arise when contemplating an upgrade are challenging and numerous.  Can you migrate all the portal customizations?  How long will the upgrade process take?  Once the portal is migrated, will I still be able to access all of my content?   While a short blog cannot and will not answer most of the questions associated with a portal migration, keep reading to find out how you can learn more to plan a successful upgrade.