05.01.2010 | By Robert Mayfield, PhD
The cost of poor company knowledge management is high and getting higher. Managing knowledge in an era of compartmentalization and specialization is more difficult when organizations face layoffs, looming retirements, and the scarcity of trained, qualified workers....
03.01.2010 | By Kennedy Maize
What do Gmail, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have in common? All are examples of cloud computing. All present serious data security challenges....
01.01.2010 | By Kennedy Maize
“Cloud” computing has become the latest buzz in the information technology world. What does it mean? Is it real? And how can it affect your business world?...
01.01.2010 | By Edward Cuoco and Victor Milligan
Power traders need to get faster, more accurate information on how markets are working and how they are swinging. They should look to telecommunications and manufacturing markets for solutions....
11.02.2009 | By Kennedy Maize
Social media have emerged as an important force in the workplace, both as new ways of doing business and as challenges to organization management. Among those challenges is defining acceptable employee behavior on and off the job....
11.02.2009 | By Kennedy Maize
What is the smart grid all about? A new book—a dictionary—attempts to define and demystify the jargon and bafflegab surrounding the buzzing smart grid. It’s a somewhat flawed but worthwhile first attempt at unraveling the often bizarre and sometimes baloney-filled smart grid nomenclature....
11.02.2009 | By Kennedy Maize
While industry interests were trying to get on board the smart grid gravy train last fall in Washington, D.C., in rural West Virginia folks were dealing with the force of a political locomotive pushing a high-voltage interstate grid, with property owners opposed and labor in favor....
11.02.2009 | By Peter B. Stark and Jane S. Flaherty
It’s no longer a 9-to-5 world. Management gurus Peter Stark and Jane Flaherty offer advice on how to manage time in today’s multi-tasking environment....
06.26.2009 | By George Lobsenz
Clashes between industry and the Department of Commerce on backward compatibility of standards could stifle and delay the development of a “smart” electric transmission and distribution grid....
05.28.2009 | By Kennedy Maize
Could demand from plug-in hybrid cars crash the grid? A DOE national lab addresses the issue....

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