June 28, 2010
Print PDF Recent conversations with insurance, biotech and hospitality companies highlight growing interest in open source models for industry vertical apps. These firms are considering opening up and sharing parts of their core business applications, not just infrastructure or common enterprise systems like HR or financials. While none of these examples are straight-forward open source where all of the code will be freely accessible and the code development is crowdsourced, they liberally borrow from the ...
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May 5, 2009
Print PDF by Chris Curran, with research by Michael Mariani I am very passionate about coaching team sports and have been a basketball player most of my life. So, I read with great interest a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article, What Can Managers Learn From College Basketball? There are three very interesting points: 1. That the majority of new jobs are sourced through “weak ties,” not close relationships. (I never heard this before, but ...
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