Dan Hesse was named CEO of Sprint since December 2007. A recognized leader in the mobile technology sector, Hesse recently added the lifetime achievement award from Corporate Responsibility Magazine to his list of accolades. On March 18, 2014, Hesse briefed members of the Economic Club of Phoenix on the advances in wireless technology that are launching the Internet of things.
Just when we thought we were getting a handle on BYOD, along comes another acronym – BYOS. There’s some confusion on what the newer acronym stands for, however. Patrick White wrote in Wired that it’s “Bring Your Own Software.” But just recently, Rachel Delacour blogged on Information Management that it means “Bring Your Own Services,” and that this service disruption will complement BYOD. Employees bringing their own apps to work? Yep – and just in time for BYOS to meet Big Data.
Wielding influence on Twitter is all about getting thousands or even millions of followers, right? Not exactly. It turns out there are other, potentially better ways to measure someone’s impact on the burgeoning social-media platform. New research by Dr. Michael (Zhan) Shi, assistant professor of information systems in the W. P. Carey School of Business finds that the strength or weakness of relationships between Twitter users and their followers are important factors in determining how widely users’ messages will spread.
To benefit from a sourcing system, employees need to use it, notes Rob Hornyak, an assistant professor of Information Systems, who teamed up with Arun Rai of Georgia State University to explore adoption of a sourcing enterprise system (SES) at one the largest consumer products companies in the United States. During the study, Hornyak was "embedded" in the firm. After an 18-month field study tracing employee acceptance and use of a sourcing enterprise system, Hornyak and Rai found that high levels of system use by sourcing professionals did not always lead to an increase in job satisfaction and performance.
The rise in “open innovation” contests has helped companies broaden their research and development while reducing their cost and risk of failure. Such contests easily reach large numbers of external problem solvers with a variety of backgrounds, potentially leading to faster, cheaper and better solutions. These contests also have piqued researcher Pei-yu Chen’s interest in how to make them work more effectively.
Last week the news of Google’s new Hummingbird conversational search engine had analysts buzzing. One of the implications is that business users will expect the same capability from their applications. This is exciting – it adds more fuel to the fire of the consumerization of IT trend. But there is something interesting here. Google deployed the new algorithm without telling those who had already paid for search engine optimization. I wonder how business users would respond if internal IT deployed new applications this way?
