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In fact, the latest findings in decision neuroscience suggest that our judgments are initiated by the unconscious weighing of emotional tags associated with our memories rather than by the conscious weighing of rational pros and cons: we start to feel something—often even before we are conscious of having thought anything. As a highly cerebral academic colleague recently commented, “I can’t see a logical flaw in what you are saying, but it gives me a queasy feeling in my stomach.”

With VDI, virtual desktop images are stored in a data center and provided to a client via the network. The virtual machines will include the entire desktop stack, from operating system to applications to user preferences, and management is provided centrally through the backend virtual desktop infrastructure.   The promise is that VDI will replace the need for myriad systems management and security tools that are currently deployed. No more demands for traditional desktop management tools for OS deployment, patch management, anti-virus, personal firewalls, encryption, software distribution and so on. In fact, many are suggesting that we can return to thin client computing models

This course advances the concept that humans and their organizations are an integral part of the engineering paradigm and that it is up to engineering to learn how to better integrate considerations of people into engineering systems of all types. This course focuses this concept on the assessment and management of the risks associated with engineered systems during their life-cycle (concept development through decommissioning). Risks (likelihoods and consequences) are addressed in the contexts of the desired quality from an engineered system including serviceability (fitness for purpose), safety (freedom from undue exposure to harm), compatibility (on time, on budget, with happy customers including the environment), and durability (freedom from unexpected degradations in the other quality characteristics). Reliability is introduced to enable assessment of the wide variety of hazards, uncertainties, and variabilities that are present during the life-cycle of an engineered system. Proactive (get ahead of the challenges), Reactive (learn the lessons from successes and failures), and Interactive (realtime assessment and management of unknown knowables and unknown unknowables) strategies are advanced and illustrated to assist engineers in the assessment and management of risks.

Latest Blog Posts Top 10 Questions Businesses Asked Us About Facebook Marketing John Clevenger 02-Jul-2010

Integrated Arts Marketing The rapid adoption of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networking sites has brought a sea change to the way people communicate, interact and relate. Initially these social media channels were used exclusively for social interaction; but today they are integral parts of Fortune 500 corporate communications. Any organization that wants to succeed must effectively leverage social media. Traditional marketing channels are increasingly ineffective as the primary marketing strategy. Social media marketing is the wave of the future, and it produces truly remarkable results.

Creately is a visual collaboration platform used by project teams to communicate more effectively. With Creately's easy to use interface and Shared Projects, everyone on your design, development and business teams can collaborate on software designs, wireframes, business & strategy diagrams easily.

Generic training that can aid in dealing with unanticipated complex terrorist activities is needed. Terrorist acts can create stressful situations involving volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and delayed feedback and information flow (“VUCAD”). Strategic management simulation technology, based on complexity theory, can be used to assess and train personnel who must deal with the threat of terrorism.

Yet we also need more generic training to handle the VUCAD of terrorism

A more applicable technology is known as “quasi-experimental simulation.”17 While the quasi-experimental approach is a compromise between the free and experimental simulation methods, it tends to combine the advantages of both and mostly eliminates the disadvantages of the other two. In a quasi-experimental simulation, preprogrammed information is restricted to only part of the information: incoming messages that assure that all participants experience the same flow of events. On the other hand, many additional computer-generated responses (typically one-half of the incoming information) to participant actions allow realism (and maintenance of high motivation levels). Yet, because of the constant flow of pre-programmed information that keeps significant events and timing constant for all participants, performance can be numerically scored against established criteria of excellence or can be compared between different participants (or participating teams). The observer (who was necessary in the free simulation) has become obsolete. Performance is computer scored, both in terms of how any participant processes information (for example, is strategy developed?) and in terms of the appropriateness of the actions taken to deal with scenario-generated events

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someone from the audience asked which learning trends or technologies we felt were overrated: Mobile Computing and Learning, Social Networking, Gaming, User Content, and Performer Support. And the two clear "winners" were...Gaming and Social Networking with both receiving over 30% of the vote. The "loser", which in our case was a GOOD thing :), was Performer Support with 9% of the vote. Not only is our industry finally seeing PS as a powerful learning approach, but we are also seeing it as something achievable.

The dream is to create a one stop launching pad of vibrant and supportive communities that will act as a learning portal for informal learning. If you've been around the learning industry long enough you'll remember that this approach was also what killed many efforts around corporate learning portals in the 90's. They were overrated as a one stop landing page for every learning asset imaginable. Although the premise was good, the execution left much to be desired. Most learners visited once or twice, were immediately overwhelmed, and never returned again.