Every few years, Microsoft releases a ‘vision for the future’ video showing concepts of future technologies. The emphasis of the latest one is on productivity enabled by interactive screens everywhere with easy real-time updates enabled by cloud computing.
As cloud computing trends gain momentum, Gartner has a timely article on considerations when making the move: How long does it take to reboot a cloud? Importantly, it highlights that there are both advantages and disadvantages to switching to cloud-based services…
…In attempting to eliminate the risk of someone seeing something they shouldn’t you risk making it difficult for everyone to see everything they need. That is not a good outcome for a system that is supposed to improve productivity and collaboration.
There are books, talks, case studies, YouTube videos, content galore demonstrating that people work better when they are happy and motivated yet it seems employers will stop at nothing to make the work place devoid of personality…
Last week, multi-tasking was back in the news, this time covered by The New Atlantis: The Myth of Multitasking. The conclusion is the same as always: multitasking is bad and you are better off doing one thing at a time. The one argument that is absolutely correct is that multitasking is less efficient than only [...]
