With Apps, Wealth Management Goes Mobile: nyti.ms/vjThm6 PWC Private Banking Survey 35% of private bank… (cont) deck.ly/~5r1ZU

Interesting IT spending and growth data from IDC quoted in Cloud Computing as a Threat to Older Tech Companies: nyti.ms/t3KEH3

Great talk by Marten Mickos on company culture, MySQL and open source: ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterial…

How leaders kill meaning at work: mckinseyquarterly.com/How_leaders_ki… Of all events that engage people in their jobs the most important is making progress.

Food for thought. The Conundrum - hypocrisies and paradoxes of living green: businessweek.com/magazine/book-…

Excellent presentation by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterial… Value derives not from being first but from the rate of learning.

Public relations defined: nytimes.com/2012/03/02/bus… Is that it?

"The skill in writing is to create a context in which other people can think" - Edwin Schlossberg via Tim O'Reilly.

The UK government unveiled another attempt to kickstart infrastructure investment with a commitment to spend an extra £3bn a year but gave …

Analysis by the Guardian found that fewer than a quarter of the UK government's hundreds of national infrastructure projects, including roa…

EHS and Sustainability. Interesting webinar today on Improving Process Safety and Reducing Unplanned Events in Oil & Gas. Significant proce…

'Why can't Britain have roads like the French?' lnkd.in/2muS-R

To Fight Gridlock, Los Angeles Synchronizes Every Red Light: The system uses magnetic sensors in the road that measure the flow of traffic,…

Without synchronization, it takes an average of 20 minutes to drive five miles on Los Angeles streets; with synchronization, it has fallen …

Infrastructure. D (for dilapidated) plus. Slightly better roads and railways, but don’t live near a dam. lnkd.in/MfBawS

Uptime continues to be the key metric for maintenance, followed by asset longevity, cost control, safety and quality. APM systems provide a…

According to APQC unplanned downtime for best-run assets are 7X lower than traditional assets while annual maintenance costs are 6X lower.

Yesterday I attended a Techonomy conference hosted by Cisco at SRI in Menlo Park that focused on the Internet of Everything. The key oppor…

On average, large IT projects run 45 percent over budget and 7 percent over time, while delivering 56 percent less value than predicted.

CII Identifies Attributes Most Related to Project Success. No. 1 was late engineering which includes documents, approvals and responses. If…