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August 23, 2011
ICT - A key source to improve Productivity
ICT - A key source to improve productivity "Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it's nearly everything" Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. In previous postings I have described a number of arguments and sources that show: · Th ...
August 17, 2011
ICT - One of the key sources to improve productivity – why we are under investing in it?
ICT - One of the key sources to improve productivity – why we are under investing in it? As detailed in my previous two postings, our productivity is weakling and has been doing so over the last few years. The experts (The Productivity Commission, th ...
August 11, 2011
Productivity (of lack of it) …. Everyone is talking about it!.
Productivity (of lack of it) …. Everyone is talking about it!. Is it pure coincidence? Yesterday (10/8/11) at an American Chamber of Commerce sponsored event in Sydney, the key note speaker, the Chairman of BHP Billiton, Mr Jacques Nasser AO, spoke a ...
August 9, 2011
Why are we (Australians) becoming unproductive?
Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it's nearly everything Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. The subject of productivity began to attract my attention a little while ago after reading concerns by a number of leaders on the re ...
June 13, 2011
Practical IT strategy development - A great conversation with Rick Vosila - CIO Chubb Australia
CIO'S CORNER Practical IT strategy development June 10, 2011 _ Rick Vosila, CIO, Chubb Australasia _ Developing, implementing and maintaining IT strategies have been major challenges for many CIOs. There are numerous methodologies and approaches. Aca ...
May 11, 2011
A faster, better sql server and sql azure log appender for log4net
After much effort, trying to get the default DatabaseAppender working in log4net I decided to write my own, so with the help of one of my alpha geeks (Tnx Chinsu) we created this awesome (its awesome because it uses batch inserts and actually works o ...