http://www.infoworld.com/columnists/from_the_analysts_david_l_margulius.html Lead With Knowledge, from InfoWorld.com en-us Copyright (C) 2006 InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:01:36 PST http://backend.userland.com/rss Kathy_Badertscher@InfoWorld.com webmaster@InfoWorld.com 40 http://images.infoworld.com/img/img_hdshot_82x74_David_L_Margulius.gif http://www.infoworld.com/columnists/from_the_analysts_david_l_margulius.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/15/51OPanalysts_1.html When my oldest niece was 2 years old, she had — as all kids do — a favorite expression: “see ‘em.” If there were chicks incubating in a box at the farm, she wanted to “see ‘em.” If there were treats in the cupboard, she wanted to “see ‘em.” Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:00:00 PST dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/15/51OPanalysts_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/08/50OPanalysts_1.html If you work in IT for a big oil company, you know that your company (and probably your IT shop) is divided into two parts: upstream and downstream. Upstream is exploration and production of the oil. Downstream is the distribution through retail channels (aka gas stations) to the consumer. Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:00:00 PST dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/08/50OPanalysts_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/01/49OPanalysts_1.html From where will the next disruptive innovations in IT come? And who’s out there looking at the big picture, incubating the IT solutions we’ll need 20, 30, or even 50 years from now? Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:00:00 PST dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/01/49OPanalysts_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/24/48OPanalysts_1.html Well, it’s almost that time of year, when the holiday cards start to roll in. You know the drill — the ones from relatives and close friends get opened and showcased prominently, especially if their kids or dogs are cute. But the courtesy ones from people you barely remember sit there in a pile for weeks until you overcome the guilt of chucking them. Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:00:00 PST dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/24/48OPanalysts_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/17/47OPanalysts_1.html A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the U.S. is losing momentum in IT certifications growth, compared with emerging markets such as Eastern Europe, India, and Latin America. Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:00:00 PST dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/17/47OPanalysts_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/10/46OPanalysts_1.html Last week I attended an interesting dinnertime event at Silicon Valley's Churchill Club. For the sake of full disclosure, I’m on the club’s board of directors. The main attraction was Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, being ably interviewed by New York Times journalist John Markoff. Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:00:00 PST dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/10/46OPanalysts_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/03/45OPanalysts_1.html It was crazy in San Francisco last week as a rumored 40,000 people swamped Oracle’s OpenWorld conference — the first time I’d ever seen a tech conference have the clout to shut down a whole city block and set up tents in the street. Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:00:00 PST dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/03/45OPanalysts_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/27/44OPanalysts_1.html Quick. When was the last time you remember being pleasantly surprised by how effectively a company used data about you to improve your customer experience? We all remember back in the ’90s the wow of going to an ATM and seeing our actual name on the screen for the first time. We all remember the first time we experienced collaborative filtering from an e-commerce site — “if you liked this, you may also like … .” Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:00:00 PDT dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/27/44OPanalysts_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/20/43OPanalysts_1.html Dear reader: Ask not what IT can do for you, ask what you can do for IT. With the crucial midterm congressional elections just a couple of weeks away (not to mention a bevy of state and local contests), it’s time to issue my first annual From the Analysts political endorsements. Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:00:00 PDT dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/20/43OPanalysts_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/13/42OPanalysts_1.html Back in the 1800s, many educated people became practitioners of the bogus, bigoted “science” of phrenology, which used skull measurements to determine the capabilities of one’s brain and the quality of one’s character. You may remember — if you were born in the 1800s or watch a lot of Discovery Channel — seeing those phrenological drawings of folks’ skulls divided into little compartments that specified the function of the parts of the brain within. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:00:00 PDT dminfoworld@yahoo.com,letters@infoworld.com (David L. Margulius)http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/13/42OPanalysts_1.html