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Words often have more than one meaning. Wiki is definitely one of those words, with different meanings for different people. Dan Woods explores wiki taxonomy in his JargonSpy column, published on Forbes.com.

Performance management allows today's corporations to take in all the information coming from disparate systems as well as from the markets and news wires and use it to run the business in highly agile and effective ways. Instead of looking back (driving using the rear view mirror), performance management lets you see where you are now and where you are going. Dan Woods' column on Forbes.com provides a pithy deep dive into performance management.

In his JargonSpy column on Forbes.com, Dan Woods explores the seeming contradiction of "commercial open source," exploring how the pure air of open source software has been mingled with the sooty air of commercial software (yes, we jest). More »

Dan Woods' JargonSpy column, published on Forbes.com, examines the world of agile programming methods, including eXtreme Programming (XP) and Scrum, with a look at the Agile Manifesto. More »

Dan Woods is a featured blogger on Forbes.com. His JargonSpy blog was launched on July 28 and the first installment, called Serious Shadow Games, delves into the phenomenon of shadow IT.

• How can a company created to execute a mass-market infrastructure adapt to the pressures to offer enterprise long-tail products for niche markets with a low cost per lead ?
• How can the collaboration and social networking techniques that are natural to the personal lives of the younger generation of digital natives be harnessed to improve productivity in a company?
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Read Dan Woods' latest blog about how the design and granularity of services is the secret sauce for effective business process modeling (BPM). He also references the community-authored business process expert book currently being written in the BPX community on SAP Developer Network as well as explaining the role of community in effectively designing services that match the business problem domain.

One of the favorite ideas that occurred to me when I wrote Wikis for Dummies was the notion of a Tom Sawyer wiki, one of the sure-fire paths to failure if you are attempting to launch a wiki. More »

The Education of a CTO brings to the table something that doesn't currently exist: a way to mentor CTOs and help them effectively do their jobs. Dan Woods tells this story based on his own experience as a CTO at TheStreet.com and other companies.

Dan saw the problems that CTOs cause themselves, the problems that they face in their companies, and the fact that their jobs are ill-defined. At most companies, no mentors are on hand to train the CTO.

So, faced with daunting management challenges and methodologies insufficient to solve the problem, what is the way out? If CTO performance has been sub par, what must be done to restore the CTO to hero status?

The program presented in this book is threefold:

• First, the CTO must more fully understand his own personality—the raw technology persona
• Next, the CTO must shift his focus from technology to business value.
• Finally, the CTO must learn about more about each business specialty in order to effectively construct technology solutions.

So much content is created about technology without any explanation of who is going to use a system or why it is being used at all. One of the fundamental principles of the Evolved Technologist is that a complete explanation of the context in which technology is going to be applied is crucial to a clear analysis of technology issues. More »