Sunday, April 22, 2007

Wrong.

I’ve seen a few of these errant predictions before, but this whole list reminds us all why it is dangerous to predict the future (via digg).

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

U.S. Companies Put The Brakes On Outsourcing

Overseas outsourcing contracts are down by a third from last year’s pace reports Business Week. One of the biggest reasons for the decrease is that outsourcing contracts from U.S. companies have declined by 70 percent in the first quarter of this year.

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Friday, April 20, 2007

Shoppers, Start Your Texting!

Don’t want to wait in line at midnight to snag a copy of the upcoming Harry Potter novel or fight the rush to buy Tim McGraw’s latest CD? No worries. Grab your cell phone and text to buy. No store. No Web site. No waiting. No lines. No kidding. This is another example of how technology firms are linking advertisers with consumers who want to buy stuff faster and easier via mobile shopping or m-commerce. 

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

IT Departments Wary of Web 2.0

For many organizations, the growing Web 2.0 movement sets up an inevitable showdown with the IT department. The biggest benefits of Web 2.0 – employee collaboration, audience participation and management transparency, to name a few – directly conflict with the highly-structured, control-driven IT world. This point was further illustrated in a recent McKinsey Global survey of executives (reported by Business Week). 

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Wyoming Horse and Rider Prevails

Wyoming’s effort to preserve its trademarked horse and rider logo has paid off. The school board in Breckenridge, Minnesota, voted last week to discontinue using the horse-and-rider logo that closely resembles the Cowboy state’s identity. 

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