Marco Tapia

Marco Tapia

IT Consulting Services Senior Advisor at PicNet

Since founding PicNet in 2001, Marco has been responsible for its overall strategic direction, its consulting services and its business development. Marco's experience includes Company Director, CIO, Business Technology Consultant and IT Project Manager. He has managed large and medium size IT functions for national and international corporations.

Marco Tapia

October 24, 2011

Will Steve Jobs' final vendetta haunt Google? is Android the "grand theft" of the iPhone?

Steve Jobs: I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs told Isaacson. “I'm going to destroy Android because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go to t ...

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Marco Tapia

October 21, 2011

Productivity advances over the next 20 years will be determined largely by how widely and rapidly we use IT to help existing industries adapt.

October 21, 2011 - Publisher Len Rust Modern technologies and applications, particularly of information and communication, are a major driver today not just of improved quality of life but also of economic growth. The implications of the growth of th ...

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Marco Tapia

October 17, 2011

Workers 'waste $109bn'

Mark Hawthorne (SMH) October 17, 2011 A third of Australian employees plan to quit in the next year, more than half say poor management has the biggest impact on their productivity, and 18 per cent of the average working day is spent on "work that wa ...

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Marco Tapia

October 6, 2011

Executive remuneration is up, shareholder returns are abysmal and productivity has stalled. There is something wrong with that productivity picture!

A great article was produced in the AFR on 1/10/11 about executive remuneration and productivity, better say, the discrepancy on how the increase of executive remuneration is reflected in a decline in productivity!!! Andrew Cornell explains in his ar ...

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Marco Tapia

October 4, 2011

The Big Five IT trends of the next half decade

This is a great article by Dion Hinchcliffe from ZDNET who explain how these new technologies will challenge CIO's and their quest to improve productivity in corporations. Summary: In today's ever more technology-centric world, the stodgy IT departme ...

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Marco Tapia

September 12, 2011

A simple example of how you can improve productivity. Watch a YouTube video in half of its time.

Want to increase your productivity? When you want to watch a YouTube video of a presentation or someone talking for a long time, just increase its speed with this plug in: YouTube HTML5 Video Player http://www.youtube.com/html5 You can watch a 1 hr v ...

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