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How Not to Change Anything at Oracle

Want to make tech headlines without having to change anything ? or in fact, do anything? If you?re Oracle, all you have to do (or not do, as the case

Why I’d Never Buy an Apple Watch

The new Apple Watch has many cool features to be sure, but I just don’t like the fact that Apple discriminates on the basis of handedness. The Apple Watch comes

Delta: Corporate Social Media Done Right

In my latest Cortex newsletter I referred to “tone deaf” corporations who have flexible technology like corporate social media in place, but lack the organizational flexibility to use it properly.

The Paradox of Self-Organizing Teams

What?s wrong with this scenario? Bob, your VP of Engineering brings a ScrumMaster, a Java developer, a UX (user experience) specialist, and a Linux admin into his office. ?We need

A Good Architect Is Like a Good Parent

Parenting is perhaps the most difficult job any of us is likely to have in our lifetimes, and we earnestly do our best as a rule. And yet, some parenting