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Balancing the Education Equation with Execution, Transformation and Innovation

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Education Innovation In a society driven by industrial age economics and measurements, it isn't surprising that we have slowly transformed the first knowledge economy work, education, into a factory, complete with six sigma performance objectives and assembly line views that treat all children of a given age or class of learner the same. Of course, individual educators and … [Read more...] about Balancing the Education Equation with Execution, Transformation and Innovation

What Can Twitter do for Facilities Management?

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The European Facilities Management Conference in Vienna featured a student poster contest. I was taken by Tilburg University's Dorian Teensma's and his Twitter idea. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to fit it into my Social Media in Higher Education report, so I thought I would share it here.  I'll let Dorian's poster speak for him. Download the PDF here. … [Read more...] about What Can Twitter do for Facilities Management?

Six Cautions for IT in the Cloud Planners, or Why Bernard Golden is Wrong

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CIO Magazine ran a story this week (July 29, 2010) on six predictions on how cloud computing will change IT, taking it from the hodgepodge of today's options into the smooth waters of a post-cloud world where IT only has one choice.  Even the opening premise leaves me flat, because as we move to a post-cloud world, some other disruption will be on the horizon which will … [Read more...] about Six Cautions for IT in the Cloud Planners, or Why Bernard Golden is Wrong