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Nenshad Bardoliwalla, one of the authors of the "Driven to Perform" book, has a new podcast called "On the 'Driven to Perform' Book, How it Translates into EPM and GRC skills needs, and how SAP will fare in an SaaS Economy."

Here's an excerpt from the podcast overview: More »

This week Dan Woods, aka the JargonSpy, puts forth the notion that a myth has sprung up around crowdsourcing that has people believing that crowdsourcing involves the creation of great software and tools created by groups of people rather than dedicated and driven individuals. More »

In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods talks about the pending
Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade legislation, "which will put steadily decreasing limits on carbon emissions and create a market for carbon credits." More »

"Mashup Corporations" is now required reading at Brigham Young University's President's Leadership Council. More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods begins by talking about the interactive screen CNN anchor John King used on air during the recent presidential election. More »

Writer Michael Hickens of the InformationWeek blog has written a post about Dan Woods' JargonSpy column on Google Wave..

In the post, Hickens says "It's hard to talk to people about Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s Wave without enduring a certain amount of eye-rolling. So I take comfort in seeing that Dan Woods of Evolved Technologies is taking it seriously." More »

This week the JargonSpy examines the importance of Google's new online collaboration tool called Wave.

In the article, Dan Woods interviews Tom Mornini, chief technology officer and founder of Engine Yard, a company that offers an integrated software stack for Ruby developers, who talks about the importance of Google Wave.

To read the article and gain an insight into Wave, go here.

Driven to Perform authors Stephanie Buscemi, Denise Vu Broady, and Nenshad Bardoliwalla have written an interesting and informative piece for Material Handling Management titled Performance Management: Getting Everybody On the Same Page. More »

In his Forbes JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods shows how "unnecessary and inaccurate data can lead to expensive project delays."

Woods starts off the column by saying that there's an old joke in the software business that says that ERP and other enterprise software programs are "the roach motels for data."

The idea behind this joke is that often the data collected "on invoices, customers, products, partners and logistics gets stored in a database and is never heard from again." More »

This week in his JargonSpy column, Dan Woods looks at "how toolkits are helping to solve the parallel programming bottleneck."

The column mentions several toolkits and goes into explanations of how they help developers overcome the barriers to the difficult processes involved in parallel programming, which Woods describes as "rocket science."

To learn more, you can read the column here.