Posts Tagged ‘Charles K. Davis’
Words of Wisdom: Steve Jobs’ Commencement Address
Steven Paul Jobs was born in 1955, co-founded Apple Computers in 1976, and died in 2011 at the age of 56, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. As CEO of Apple, he was one of the greatest visionaries in the history of American business. Under his leadership, Apple developed a culture of innovation that…
Read MoreSpread Spectrum
Spread spectrum is probably today’s most important wireless networking protocol. As unlikely as it might seem, a 26-year-old Hollywood movie star, a screen siren named Miss Hedy Lamarr, invented spread spectrum. In 1942 during World War II, she and a partner (who was a music composer and producer) received a US patent (#2,292,387) for inventing…
Read MoreHow Much Data is BIG Data?
A Fair Question. Everyone in business is talking about Big Data, but the term is impenetrably, wonderfully vague in common use. Certainly, it means dealing with large amounts of data, but businesses have been struggling with processing large amounts of data for eons. The current emphasis on ‘Big data’ has to be more than just…
Read MoreExpert Power & Information Technology Specialists
In his classic treatise “Power In and Around Organizations” (Prentice-Hall, 1983), Henry Mintzberg describes three types of power in organizations – formal, informal, and expert. FORMAL POWER is power derived from one’s rank in the organization. A division director has more formal power than a departmental manager and less than the corporate vice-president. INFORMAL POWER…
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