No Magic Words Could Do It Justice

Oxytocin is needed, but it is no magic bullet

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Returns on IT Investment: Could We Do Better?

Spending on IT continues to show long-term growth throughout the economy, apparently reflecting a belief in the economic benefits of IT. However, we also see organizations struggle in practice to demonstrate such benefits. Conventional thinking suggests that individual organizations can improve their performance in this area through better financial analysis of opportunities. But does this char...

If I could do it all over again.

Real life experiences were used to put together this list of steps to be followed during the planning and implementation of a formal MRP II planning and control system. Project management and organizational skills are critical to the success of the project. The implementation plan is carried out by a project team and subcommittees with the support of top management. Cost/benefit analysis and pe...

Banning 'magic mint' could slow research.

Magic Words: How Language Augments Human Computation

Of course, words aren’t magic. Neither are sextants, compasses, maps, slide rules and all the other paraphenelia which have accreted around the basic biological brains of homo sapiens. In the case of these other tools and props, however, it is transparently clear that they function so as to either carry out or to facilitate computational operations important to various human projects. The slide...