Gartner recently released its research document on “Context-Enhanced Performance: What, Why and How” and the steps CIOs and enterprise architects need to take to increase productivity within their organizations. The report made for great food for thought. If you have access to Gartner, I highly recommend you look at the full document. The research indicates that organizations are not maximizing “context-aware computing to proactively serve up needed information to associates, or to improve collaboration.”
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The Future is Now
Monday, October 18th, 2010Tags: contextual intelligence, Gartner, IDC, increase productivity, Information Optimization
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5 Steps to Optimizing Information
Thursday, March 18th, 2010According to an IDC white paper, 75% of workers suffer from information overload—from both quantity and diversity. We don’t have to look far to understand why at every turn there’s a new blog, wiki, survey, video, podcast and email. Here are 5 steps to convert this overload into overdrive by optimizing your information and empowering your workers.
1. Establish secure, global connectivity with a single access point
We live in a world of transparent borders where information may reside in various forms and various repositories. ERPs, CRMs, email archives and IM clients are only a sliver of the different data silos that we have today. Employees, partners and customers must be able to securely connect to information—irrespective of its source and its location—according to their needs and role.
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