Jonathan Spira

Jonathan Spira
Jonathan B. Spirais a researcher and industry analyst known for his work in the area of collaboration and knowledge sharing and the problem of information overload...
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The search engines leave out something very important, ... They don't ask after a search, 'Was this helpful?'
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Before you consider how to deal with these issues on an individual worker level, you've got to first step back and look higher, and ask managers if they know what it means to manage knowledge workers, ... Our mental image of efficiency is rooted in the factory scene from Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern Times,' and managers base performance on how many widgets fly out the door. But customers and raw information aren't widgets, and you can't expect to handle them according to schedule.
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The second thing is, how do you provide an equivalent infrastructure so people not in the office are not penalized? Obviously, if they're penalized, the company is also.
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Products which allow companies to replace the time-consuming and inefficient task of manually compiling and maintaining asset inventories, thereby allowing companies to actually know what they have, are key for companies that need to compete successfully in the knowledge economy.
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I've always held that in the proportions we're dealing with, the index number is not only irrelevant, but possibly misleading, ... In search, size does not necessarily matter.
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The application and server market is changing so quickly that adding a product that does real-time configuration management with Symantec's existing portfolio will give Symantec's customers a greater capability to actively manage their environment.
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No one should install any software without telling the computer user before doing it. Burying it in a disclosure document that is not read by 99.9 percent of users is not an excuse.
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It's not only technology, it's how knowledge workers behave. Companies have to recognize we're now dealing with a different type of work force, with significant changes. Quite honestly, there has been a very poor job done educating the business world about managing knowledge workers.
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It's hard to say what will be next, but I have no doubt there will be other companies that have showstoppers.
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It's just mind boggling. All manufacturers have been aware that this is an ongoing problem that they have to watch for, so why they are unable to anticipate this type of problem is incomprehensible from an engineering standpoint.
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It's a very tough tightrope to balance oneself on. Everything could be the next important emergency that needs to be taken care of.
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The possibilities of that tie-in are endless if one contemplates the possibility of software and tools delivered over the Internet and paid for by online adverts. This also gives Microsoft the ability to control its own destiny and eliminate the service that Yahoo is providing selling the ads.
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Any challenger to a market where one player holds 80 percent share not only has to build a better mousetrap but improve upon the mouse.
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This is not the first time that we've seen overheating batteries or power supplies. It seems that the attention that should be paid to these details is not paid.