Digital media growth effort starts Nov 22, 2008
"We're defining it very broadly because what this is really about is not the industry, but the knowledge workers," Hecht said. "This is as much a play for the knowledge worker as it is for industry.". (Nola.com -- Sports)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Schools Nov 21, 2008
We haven't moved to the awareness of the globalization of markets and economies that has produced a "Knowledge Worker" Age, where leadership is moral authority rather than position or formal authority. Look what's happening in Detroit right now. (Time.com)
Economic package unveiled (Updated with full text) Nov 4, 2008
Tumpuan akan diberi kepada sektor strategik yang bernilai tambah tinggi dan projek berimpak besar dari segi nilai pelaburan, teknologi dan knowledge workers ... Langkah ini adalah untuk menggalakkan pelaburan, terutamanya pembangunan sektor hartanah negara; Ketiga: Bagi memudahkan proses pengambilan pekerja asing berasaskan pengetahuan (knowledge worker), permit kerja, yang pada masa ini diberi kepada majikan, akan juga diberi secara langsung kepada pekerja tersebut. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Is The Smartphone Your Next Computer? Oct 11, 2008
It's reasonable to think such a scenario will be par for the course for the typical knowledge worker in three years' time. But what's the reality today. (InformationWeek)
SitScape Launches Software Product for enabling Lightweight Visual Composite Web Applications such as Dashboard Pages for Non-Technical Knowledge Workers Sep 9, 2008
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- SitScape today announced at the DEMOfall 08 conference a software product "Situational Web Remixer," which can empower non-IT knowledge worker to quickly assemble lightweight visual composite Web applications such as dashboard pages in minutes ... Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO conferences, said, "SitScape is tremendously innovative in the way it allows knowledge workers to quickly assemble new lightweight Web applications on-the-fly and... (PR Newswire)
Tempted by a Spot of 'Social Notworking'(TM)? Not if You're a Brit, Says 3 Sep 9, 2008
For the modern knowledge worker, productivity has nothing to do with long hours on the job, but flows from an active and motivated mind. This motivation is sure to plummet by being treated like a naughty schoolchild. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Tableau Software Provides Visualization Capabilities to Netezza Sep 2, 2008
This will enable fast and easy data exploration and visualization for any knowledge worker. (Logo: ) "Tableau's visualization and mapping capabilities greatly enhance the end-user experience by simplifying the way people can access our high-performance analytics," said Matt Rollender, director of strategic and technology alliances, Netezza. (PR Newswire)
Printer maker offers to help people print less Aug 29, 2008
Companies already have made progress going electronic with insurance claims, bank transactions and other paperwork, he said, and they are now turning to "the knowledge worker and the ad hoc use of paper.". But Le Clair said any effect will be small compared with initiatives such as centralized printing, through which companies can track usage by person or department much better than with individual printers at each desk. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Rockets, satellites push Arizona's economy Aug 9, 2008
"These are high-paying knowledge worker jobs that aren't going away in the future," department spokeswoman Patti Urias said. The space programs also have become an important source of general-fund revenue for the state's universities, which are facing budget cutbacks. (AZCentral -- Business)
Moving towards a world of unified communications Jul 22, 2008
Nortel estimates that the average knowledge worker receives up to 50 messages a day in up to seven different places and on numerous devices. And it's getting worse. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
May We Have Your Attention, Please? Jun 14, 2008
It's official: The average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow. Roughly once every three minutes, typical cubicle dwellers set aside whatever they're doing and start something else -- anything else. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Harlan Cleveland, at 90; dean, author, statesman Jun 8, 2008
He was quick to anticipate the implications of the information revolution and predicted the arrival of the knowledge worker in the global marketplace. He also believed, as he wrote in his book "Birth of a New World" (1993), that "flexible, uncentralized systems work best," whether the system is a government, a business, or a charitable endeavor. (Boston Globe)
Coping with transition May 12, 2008
From the industrial age, Malaysia has moved to the knowledge worker age, and to succeed, its leaders have to cope with the changing demands of knowledge workers ... The advent of the knowledge worker is rapidly changing. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Mashups a hot item at Web 2.0 show Apr 22, 2008
Featured are enterprise mashup widgets called "Mashlets," which are portable, shareable micro Web applications used for common knowledge worker activities such as analyzing sales data and enterprise risk analysis. Users can share Mashlets through enterprise portals, blogs, wikis, or e-mail. (InfoWorld)
A rule that won't be broken Apr 15, 2008
By 1990 virtually every "knowledge worker" had a PC or a terminal. We had reached saturation point - in information-intensive industries such as finance and government the number of end users equalled the number of employees. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Steve Jobs "miracle" in the valley Apr 1, 2008
"That doesn't look a thing like Steve Jobs," said Dan Lyons, a 47-year-old knowledge worker. "That's the . Anybody can see that.". (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Save time at work by taking the time to read this Mar 16, 2008
Mann, who runs the Web site , has attracted a following among knowledge workers with an empowering message: your time and attention are scarce and valuable, so give them away wisely. (How to tell a knowledge worker. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
How To Take Back Your Time And Attention Jan 20, 2008
This is a particular problem for knowledge workers. (How do you identify knowledge workers ... Knowledge workers have huge amounts of freedom in how they work, they aren't micromanaged, they just have goals to achieve. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
SOA 2008: The year of the guerrilla Jan 9, 2008
0 technology for knowledge worker collaboration did not catch fire with enterprise IT in 2007, but hope is still held out for it this year ... 0 is it lacks a clear definition making it hard for enterprise IT to see where it has a value to knowledge workers, Farrell said ... 0 technology for knowledge worker collaboration did not catch fire with enterprise IT in 2007, but hope is still held out for it this year. (Search Webservices)
Collaboration Costs $588B a Year Jan 3, 2008
As much as e-mail, instant messages, blogs and their brethren technologies have helped knowledge workers better collaborate, interruptions and duplications derived from these forms of digital communication and content are overwhelming workers to the point of distraction ... "Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us," authored by Basex analysts Jonathan B. Spira and David M. Goldes and released Dec. 19, claims that interruptions from phone calls, e-mails and instant messages eat... (eWeek)
Kforce Professional Staffing Passes Historical Revenue Mark of $1 Billion Dec 27, 2007
Knowledge'' reflects the dual concepts of the knowledge worker, an individual who brings a wealth of professional, personal and technical skills; and the knowledge-based employing organization. Force'' symbolizes the strength of the knowledgeable team that achieves the organization's business objectives. (Primezone Releases)
Google gets ready to rumble with Microsoft Dec 17, 2007
"It's a 90-10 thing." Inside the cloud resides "almost everything you do in a company, almost everything a knowledge worker does.". Schmidt clearly believes that the arcs of technology and history are in Google's corner, no matter how hard he tries to avoid mooning the giant. (International Herald Tribune)
Encouraging thinking for a living Dec 10, 2007
Knowledge workers lawyers, doctors, consultants, designers and anyone who thinks for a living comprise just over 25 per cent of the country's workers, but provide a disproportionate value to the economy. If Canada is to compete successfully in the global economy, managers need to create and foster a work environment that encourages knowledge workers to innovate, powering the Canadian economy for the future ... In addition to valuing informal communication, conversations by the cooler, Intel also... (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Opportunities essential for drawing 'knowledge workers' Oct 31, 2007
Opportunities essential for drawing 'knowledge workers ... Opportunities essential for drawing 'knowledge workers ... "Knowledge worker" is the term applied across industries for people who create, research, develop and invent. (AZCentral -- News)
Do You Work in a Zoo? Oct 19, 2007
The Cost of Not Paying Attention: How Interruptions Impact Knowledge Worker Productivity. estimated that American businesses (BusinessWeek, 7/19/07) through workplace distractions. (BusinessWeek)
Harvard prof. envisions Enterprise 2.0 Web services Oct 13, 2007
Wikis and social networking are "concrete capabilities" that would be valuable in the enterprise for knowledge worker collaboration, he said ... 0 software needs to be very attractive and easy to use, to draw knowledge workers away from email, which is currently the networking and collaboration tool of choice ... Wikis and social networking are "concrete capabilities" that would be valuable in the enterprise for knowledge worker collaboration, he said. (Search Webservices)
Socket Mobile's PDA Revival Sep 28, 2007
But while a smartphone may often be the better choice for the typical corporate knowledge worker, 's SoMo 650 reminds us that the stand-alone PDA is still a good platform for a variety of business applications that rely on mobility -- think medical patient care, retail merchandising and inventory, or point-of-sale. Socket Mobile positions the $695 SoMo 650 as an alternative to larger and pricier industrial-style handheld computers or standard PDAs. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Exposure to the invisible cloud of energy called electrosmog is rising Sep 24, 2007
If you are an urban knowledge worker, keen to take advantage of the conveniences of information technology, your exposure to the invisible cloud of energy called the electromagnetic field - EMF, or electrosmog - may be considerably higher than that of your low-tech, old-media peers. It's 1 a.m. Is your neighbor's refrigerator behind the wall you sleep against. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Culture Clash in Office 2.0 Sep 8, 2007
Stephen Collins, CEO of acidlabs, a consultancy focused on Web applications and Web strategy, told the audience that the kind of employee he calls "knowledge worker 2.0" can't be held to traditional corporate standards of behavior. He described this type as having broad skills and using many tools. (Datamation)
Open Text: Organizations Need to Prepare Now for the Coming Retirement Wave and Major Shifts in the Workforce Aug 14, 2007
According to Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the largest independent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and solutions, organizations that understand the changing world of the knowledge worker and are preparing now to collect and share information more efficiently and effectively will be in the best position to transition knowledge from retirees to younger workers and mitigate the effects of Baby Boomer retirement. For many industry sectors, organizations... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Filemaker 9 focuses on ease of use Jul 11, 2007
Our goal was 20 minutes or less for a knowledge worker to be able to setup the server from start to finish. Among the new features in Filemaker 9 is a Quick Start screen for new users; Conditional Formatting, which highlights data based on parameters the user sets; and the ability to email a link to other FileMaker users, which they can click to access your database. (MacCentral)
Journyx Announces 2007 Excellence in Project Accounting Philosophy Scholarship Winner Jun 27, 2007
"Our company is committed to eradicating cost ignorance from our knowledge worker society and leading organizations to the highest levels of profitability through innovation." About Journyx Timesheet Journyx Timesheet is a timesheet and expense management solution that enables organizations to automate management of employee time and expenses for project control, customer invoicing, and payroll processing. Journyx offers patented technological solutions -- not just generic tools -- that are... (PR Newswire)
Xerox Unveils New Document Search Software - FactSpotter Jun 23, 2007
"Today's knowledge worker has quite a task in front of them. Each and every day they search for specific data, information, or corporate knowledge in order to do their job well," said Mike Maziarka, director, InfoTrends Dynamic Content Software and Image Scanning Trends Consulting Services. "We all need tools that will make it easier to search for that 'needle' among the 'haystack' of masses of information that exist in our world today. FactSpotter meets this need because it can make searches... (IT News Online)
Adobe Tops Estimates, Outlook Weighs Jun 15, 2007
Revenue from the knowledge worker segment that includes Acrobat rose to $184. 8 million from $160. (SmartMoney)
Can Email Be Saved? May 31, 2007
For the average knowledge worker, though, things don t look so bad on the surface. The typical enterprise email inbox doesn t reflect the nature of the problem. (CIO Information Network)
'Drive-by interruptions' taking a toll on production Apr 21, 2007
Interruptions now consume 28 per cent of the average knowledge worker's day, according to New York-based research firm Basex ... "It's how these things all mesh together sometimes like an orchestra without a conductor...[and] the tools that serve as a lubricant and keep knowledge flowing, such as e-mail, the Web, and instant messaging, also act as a wrench in the works when they interrupt the knowledge worker and cause information overload.". (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Citrix Cashing In on the Virtualized Corporation Apr 11, 2007
We enable the IT team to administer from one back-end management console which kinds of desktops are delivered to which types of users based on role (knowledge worker, call center, etc. and requirements, says Hollison. (CIO Information Network)
BEA Unveils Web 2.0 for Enterprise Mar 29, 2007
The product is aimed at improving knowledge worker productivity, McDermott said. And BEA's third new enterprise Web 2. (eWeek)
Adobe raises estimate after 1st-quarter profit up 37 percent Mar 22, 2007
Knowledge worker software, which includes Acrobat and other titles used to create and read digital documents, took in $174. 8 million. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
NewsGator Partners with /n Software to Provide RSS Platform Mar 9, 2007
"RSS significantly improves knowledge worker productivity because it goes out and brings updates and new items directly to them while also helping to improve awareness of a particular topic," Berkowitz said. NewsGator hopes that this partnership will bring future developments as well as a well-rounded product offering. (eWeek)
Demand booms but skills are lacking Feb 11, 2007
To address the knowledge worker shortage, the government believes that its Joint Initiative for Priority Skills Acquisition (Jipsa) programme, with its focus on developing and recruiting priority artisan and technical skills and, in the short term, developing a graduate employment strategy and recruiting retired specialists and expert mentors, is a huge step in the right direction. To address the knowledge worker shortage, the government has discarded the old training systems and introduced a... (iAfrica.com)
The Whac-A-Mole approach to information management Feb 6, 2007
Some time ago - actually quite some time ago - the amount of information that your average knowledge worker is expected to keep track of, disappeared over the horizon into the Land of Impossible Things. An important and clever trick has evolved - and continues to evolve - to help us deal with this Impossible Thing. (ITworld -- News)
Can SAP enterprise search succeed in a crowded market? Feb 6, 2007
The search box has become a primary interface for the knowledge worker, and these companies fear that, without it, they may miss yet-unknown opportunities, according to Whit Andrews, a research vice president for Stamford, Conn ... The search box has become a primary interface for the knowledge worker, and these companies fear that, without it, they may miss yet-unknown opportunities, according to Whit Andrews, a research vice president for Stamford, Conn. (Search SAP)
Is the Enterprise Ready for its own MySpace? Jan 26, 2007
A typical knowledge worker has specific work to get done each day, and they collaborate in ways they re comfortable with over the phone, in meeting rooms, and via email. Much of the collaboration is serial in nature, but it s collaborative and the work gets done. (Datamation)
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She explained how Cool Cities came about by admitting, he government didn't prepare enough for the decline in manufacturing we are undergoing here in Michigan, and it didn't prepare for the new knowledge worker economy. Cool Cities is a way to make up for that significant slight. (Ionia Sentinel-Standard, MI)
The Art of Influencing Up Jan 10, 2007
Knowledge workers are people who know more about what they are doing than their boss does. My guess is that you, like most of my readers, are a knowledge worker ... Many knowledge workers (especially those with technical backgrounds) have years of education and experience that enable them to come up with great ideas. (BusinessWeek)
