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"n India, the speed and scale of the response has taken a very different form, spearheaded not by government, but by the private sector. Indian companies face a huge potential skill gap for, while the technical education in the Indian Institutes of Technology is of a high level, the general education standards across the country are poor. For Indian's rapidly growing IT sector, represented by companies such as Wipro, Infosys and TCS, this could be a disaster. Yet instead of accepting this, these companies have reached out into communities across the continent to significantly impact the development millions of youngsters. Executives at Wipro, for example, work with tens of thousands of colleges across India to train teachers to develop IT skills, build state-of-the-art curricula, and encourage students to become what they term 'work-ready'. With a recruitment target in 2011/12 of 60,000, the teams at TCS play a similar role in helping young people across India understand from an early age what the most valuable skills for the future are, and how best to acquire them. Like Infosys they also work closely with hundreds of thousands of teenagers to actively increase their skills."

"Here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner director of global research Peter Sondergaard warned conference attendees that the impact of consumerization is the single most significant trend that will impact IT over the next 10 years. "We stand at the foot of a new high tide" said Sondergaard. "There is a shift in technology ownership.""

Consumerization of IT" nennen das die Analysten. Gemeint ist: Immer mehr Leute sind von der Leistungsfähigkeit ihrer heimischen PCs und privat genutzten Internetdienste so angetan, dass sie sich fragen, warum sie sich am Arbeitsplatz mit altersschwachen Rechnern und grauenvoller Grosskonzernsoftware herumschlagen müssen. Und statt sich zu ärgern, bringen sie halt die private Technologie mit an den Arbeitsplatz.

"Was treibt Sie eigentlich in Ihrer Eigenschaft als Vorstandssprecher des Microsoft Business User Forum (mbuf) um?"

"Over the past few years, organizations have opened their electronic doors to partners, suppliers, and customers. At the same time, an influx of young, tech-savvy workers is having a tremendous impact on companies and their IT organizations. They enter the workforce with tremendous energy and new ideas, but lso with their own set of preferred tools and applications-from obile devices and laptops to social networking tools."

"The quest for talent is coming to you, and it won't be for the faint of heart! New assumptions and practices will require more imagination, more commitment and more cutting-edge action than companies have faced before. Are you prepared for the new levels of competition and the new rules? Join us as we explore the changing assumptions and practices that propel companies to the leading edge of the quest for talent."

„Millennials vor den Toren" -Anspruch der Internet-Generation an IT

Banking giant Credit Suisse has sated its power-consumption hunger through the use of virtualization

"CS schafft 250 Informatik-Arbeitsplätze und will mit der ETH Lausanne vor allem im Bereich Cloud Computing forschen."

Ein Grund für den Wahlsieg von Barack Obama war dessen Social-Media-gestützte Wahlkampagne.

"The 21st century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. "

"An Activity Based Workplace (ABW) is all about choice. The planning and design of an ABW includes a menu of spaces to support different workplace activities rather than forcing people to do everything at the one desk. An ABW can increase desk utilisation by not assigning desks to individuals. People can physically locate themselves wherever it is most appropriate for them to undertake their work. If quiet concentrative work is necessary then a 'focus' room or semi enclosed area can be utilised; if an informal discussion is required people can use a range of unbookable rooms; if an ad hoc presentation is required there can be small rooms equipped with screens and audio visual equipment; meeting rooms of all sizes can house the latest technologies; and typically there are central hubs on each floor accessible to all. This is all over and above traditional desk and meeting room set ups - the possibilities and opportunities for ABW are limitless. The menu of spaces typically range from open to closed, individual to collaborative, quiet to vibrant, bright to subdued. And usually there is a fairly even balance of space dedicated to communication and meetings as there is dedicated to workstations themselves."

Data governance is an approach that can help organizations to more effectively manage, protect, and use the growing volume of personal information, intellectual property, and other confidential data in their possession. A strong data governance program may also reduce IT costs, improve the quality of data, and shorten response time to meet compliance requirements.

"InnoCentive, Inc. builds a Web community for open innovation that enables scientists, engineers, professionals, and entrepreneurs to collaborate to deliver solutions for R and D-driven organizations. The company posts problems on its Website and offers open research, development, and innovation assistance."

Karim Lakhani is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School's Technology and Operations Management Unit. He is a serious scholar of crowdsourcing, trying to build theories of if, how and why it works. In the past he's also written on open source theory and innovation, including articles about Wikipedia and open source science Read More http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/academics_crowdsourcing?currentPage=1#ixzz13N4ZOVu0

"Viele CIOs sind mittlerweile auf Facebook registriert und kommunizieren dort über berufliche Themen. Die Grenzen zwischen dem Mitarbeiter und dem Menschen verschwimmen, konstatierte der Audi-CIO Klaus Straub kürzlich. Und wie sein Kollege Thomas Hemmerling-Böhmer von der Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG ergänzte, wollen auch die Kunden heute dort abgeholt werden, wo sie sich im Privatleben aufhalten."

"Mitarbeiter und Kunden wollen heute selbst bestimmen, mit welchen Tools sie arbeiten beziehungsweise wie sie angesprochen werden. Kluge CIOs berücksichten das."