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"A recent set of studies published by McKinsey Quarterly provides further evidence that the bigger they are the harder they fall.  Given that the McKinsey Quarterly's audience is predominantly business executives rather than IT professionals, it's important that CIOs are aware of the findings and have a reasonable response. Large projects not only fail more often they deliver less.  According to the McKinsey/Oxford study half of IT projects with budgets of over $15 million dollars run 45% over budget, are 7% behind schedule and deliver 56% less functionality than predicted.  That means that:"

In a few short years, social technologies have given social interactions the speed and scale of the Internet. Whether discussing consumer products or organizing political movements, people around the world constantly use social-media platforms to seek and share information. Companies use them to reach consumers in new ways too; by tapping into these conversations, organizations can generate richer insights and create precisely targeted messages and offers.

SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur argues in the Santa Fe New Mexican, in a reprint of an essay recently published in McKinsey Quarterly, that a deep, slow, and silent transformation of our economy is taking place today as a second digital economy supplants the physical one we know. Every 60 years or so, he writes, a technological innovation comes along that slowly alters the economy. In the late 19th century it was the railroads linking east and west, goods and labor, and eventually fueling the industrial revolution.  Information technology is that technology today -- vast, interconnected, and extraordinarily productive. "Processes in the physical economy are being entered into the digital economy, where they are 'speaking to' other processes in the digital economy, in a constant conversation among multiple servers and multiple semi-intelligent nodes that are updating things, querying things, checking things off, readjusting things, and eventually connecting back with processes and human in the physical economy." Previously, humans were responsible for these processes. "Physical jobs are disappearing into the second economy, and I believe this effect is dwarfing the much more publicized effect of jobs disappearing to places like India and China," Arthur writes.

Pour McKinsey Quarterly, l'économiste Brian Arthur, chercheur invité au Laboratoire de systèmes intelligents du Parc, le Centre de recherche de Palo Alto, professeur externe à l'Institut de Santa Fé et auteur de The Nature of Technology : What it is and How it Evolves (La nature des technologies : ce qu'elle est et comment et évolue) a livré une très intéressante réflexion sur l'économie numérique, qu'il a baptisée "La deuxième économie".

Nombreux rapport concernant le numérique et les technologies

The health industry has not always been a leader in technology adoption. The current "high touch" model where caretakers deliver services within silos of care cannot be sustained because of high costs and other concerns. Making this even more of a challenge is a payment system that leaves little room for improved performance due to financial incentives. That's changing and the industry is moving toward greater "connectedness."  This new model will feature these characteristics: data-based transparency, personalized care, and consumer-directed care. Strategies such as predictive medicine and personalized care could allow players to create value in this new environment. This report outlines how executives should react and take advantage.

In our sixth annual technology survey, executives say their companies are boosting IT spending and adopting new technology platforms to support innovation.

In 2009, Wikimedia1 launched a special wiki-one dedicated to the organization's own strategy. Over the next two years, more than 1,000 volunteers generated some 900 proposals for the company's future direction and then categorized, rationalized, and formed task forces to elaborate on them. The result was a coherent strategic plan detailing a set of beliefs, priorities, and related commitments that together engendered among participants a deep sense of dedication to Wikimedia's future. Through the launch of several special projects and the continued work of self-organizing teams dedicated to specific proposals, the vision laid out in the strategic plan is now unfolding.

Todd Park explains how he has partnered technology with open-data initiatives to tap into the many talented innovators and entrepreneurs across the government.