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Welcome to the nGenera Blogs. The nGenera blog roll provides you rapid access to the opinions and perspective from a number of nGenera's leadership team. nGenera Blogs is a special part of the nGenera Community that we have placed in this section to make it easier to find and participate in the conversations. Scroll down to view our collection of blogs:

- Frank Capek
- Steve Elmore
- Tammy Erickson
- Brian Magierski
- Vaughn Merlyn
- Margaret Schweer
- Roy Youngman
- Wikinomics

Steve Elmore

A Family Tragedy
For 3 years we have been living with a family tragedy. My sister-in-law is an international fugitive wanted for kidnapping her daughter (see story on America's Most Wanted here). This has created a permanent divide in our family and ... read more
The Role of Ethics in Organizational Strategy
Moore's Law (Intel, 2005) states that the speed of processors will double every eighteen months. While this has held true for the most part, it highlights the fact that the rapidity with which technology advances remains constant. This poses a ... read more
Product Development Flowchart
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Valleywag: proof anyone can blog
Vallywag's Paul Boutin recently blogged: "When the smoke clears after the crash and burn of the money machine behind today's tech startups, there's one word no one will ever write into a business ... read more
On terminations
An employee, whether terminated for cause, force reduction or cultural misalignment, needs to leave with their dignity intact and remain an advocate for the organization they are departing. After reading Chris' blog about leaving Jive, I can only imagine the ... read more
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Tammy Erickson

Are "High Potential" Programs an Anachronism?
Has your company labeled you a "high potential?" Do you know? Do you care? There's a debate growing among human resource professionals on the usefulness of "hi-po" programs. In theory, the idea of singling individuals out for this label ... read more
Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
There's an art to tweeting. And, I'm sorry to say, most people just haven't mastered it. Twitter, for the few uninitiated out there, is a social networking site that limits your posts to 140 characters. You can sign up to " ... read more
Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
There's an art to tweeting. And, I'm sorry to say, most people just haven't mastered it. Twitter, for the few uninitiated out there, is a social networking site that limits your posts to 140 characters. You can sign up to " ... read more
Our Generation X President's First Year
President Obama is arguably the United States' first President who is a member of Generation X. (I say "arguably" since the boundary line between Boomers and X'ers is subject to debate. Born in 1961, in my view, he's the vanguard ... read more
The Moment Social Media Became Serious Business
It happened last year, around the first of July. In my experience, the switch was just about that abrupt. All last spring, most senior business leaders I met shrugged off the business applicability of Web 2.0. Allowing access to social ... read more
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Brian Magierski

Stop obsessing about Enterprise 2.0 ROI!
Here is a link to one of the most intelligent things I believe has been said about the Enterprise 2.0 / Enterprise Social Networking / Enterprise Collaboration space yet … and it was written by a blogger who’s expertise is ... read more
Rackspace Prices IPO
Rackspace (RAX) priced today at $12.50 / share near the low end of a range of $12 to $16 per share through a dutch auction process. It was a tough deal to get through even with Rackspace’s high quality numbers. They ... read more
Google's Trojan Horse into the Enterprise?
On the heels of Salesforce.com partnering with Google Enterprise to integrate Google Apps into Salesforce.com, Google has now done an equally extensive partnership and integration with SuccessFactors around embedding Google Apps and ... read more
How Enterprises are using Twitter
Here is a great article from today’s Boston Globe about how Comcast and Southwest Air are using Twitter - fascinating stuff. It also highlights Dell’s social ... read more
Get Satisfaction!
Just happened upon a pretty cool new web service called Get Satisfaction. It is a community site self proclaimed as “People powered customer service for just about everything”. I found the service doing a search on private video ... read more
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Vaughan Merlyn

Design Thinking 2.0: How Web 2.0 Might Foster and Enable an Innovation Revolution
About 3 years ago I first become aware of what can best be called a ‘movement’ dedicated to “Design Thinking,” when the term started showing up in some of my favorite blogs (e.g., Idris Mootee’s Innovation Playground). The ... read more
“Branding” Your IT Organization
I love this post on Attraction of Identity from my kindred spirit, Russ Aebig. (And not just because he references my work on Business-IT Maturity!) Russ poses the question: As an organization, who are you? What ... read more
Avatar – Blending “Hi Tech/Hi Touch”
Way back in 1982, futurist John Naisbitt authored the fascinating book Megatrends. I especially recall my reaction to one of the trends – High tech, high ... read more
Lessons in Listening: Superior Performance Demands Great Listening!
One of the ‘gifts’ I’m enjoying in my semi-retirement is more time pursuing my musical hobbies – including performing with local musicians and friends. That creative outlet reinforces for me, at the deepest level, how much good musical performance ... read more
Exploring an IT Operating Model for Enterprise 2.0 – Part 4: IT Governance
In Part 1 of this series, I suggested that the implications of Enterprise 2.0 for the IT organization are dramatic. I also suggested that the ways of designing and ... read more
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Margaret Schweer

The Silent Generation Meets Generation Y: How to Manage a Four Generation Workforce with Panache - Part 6a
Accomodating Four GenerationsIn order to accommodate the four generations, companies are going to have to implement the following 4 critical steps: Insure flexibility Create educational opportunities for as long as employee is working Create signature experiences for employees to attract ... read more
How Bad Is It vs. How Could We Make It Worse
It struck me recently that in over 30 years of consulting this is the first recession where I have had to cope with Cable TV! I am no longer sure that the constant flow of bad news is creating ... read more
Plugged In-The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work Book Reveiw
I hope you are all doing well during these very interesting times! On Friday I had occasion to visit with Tammy Erickson a friend and colleague for many years. She shared with me her new book, Plugged In-The ... read more
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Roy Youngman

Apple versus MS - Is it Relevent?
Like many colleagues, I get a kick out of the Apple versus Microsoft television commercial wars. Apple’s ads are funny at Microsoft’s expense, appeal to a youthful generation, and are simple to understand. Microsoft recently gave < ... read more
The Impact of Cloud Computing on Outsourcing
A former colleague and friend, Esteban Herrera, commented on Nick Carr’s summary of Nick’s new book, The Big Switch. Nick is really getting around - on September 25th Nick ... read more
Intelligence, Artificial and that Other Kind
Nicolas Carr had an interesting post the other day about this year’s Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. All the excitement this year seems to be over two entries “getting very close to passing the Turing Test for the ... read more
SaaS Project Management Tool Review
I was hunting for a Project Management tool last week. I really wanted a software as a service” (SaaS) tool for a couple reasons: I wanted a more Web 2.0 collaborative approach to planning and coordinating project activity than what ... read more
Olympic Lessons
Well, sadly, the Olympics are over. At least I can return to some normal sleeping habits. I wonder if there is anything I learned from all this that can be applied to the business enterprise or at least personally? Let's ... read more
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Wikinomics

Will You Use Target’s Mobile Coupons?
As we all know, mobile phones offer much more than talking and texting these days. As anyone with an iPhone or any smart phone knows, there are thousands of applications available to conduct transactions on your phone. Yesterday, read more
Lessons in collaboration from B.B. King’s
I am reminded today of the blues. Back in December, nGenera held our members conference in Memphis, TN, hosted by the good folks at FedEx. On the second evening, we were treated to dinner and at B.B. King’s Blues Club ... read more
Games, user experience, and retroactive Continuity–All enabled by platforms
As I may have mentioned before, Valve Software’s Portal is a favorite game of mine. At our December 2009 Insight conference I profiled it as an example of a game that does an excellent job of making ... read more
A Decade of Frustration Ahead?
It’s been a fascinating week. I’ve been in Washington DC since Saturday, primarily attending the annual conference and international symposium held by the Consortium for School Networking, which goes by the acronym CoSN. CoSN is the primary professional membership ... read more
The iPhone, growing up digital, and my daughter’s education
I have a daughter that is almost two years old. As a general rule, she is not allowed to watch TV – but she is allowed to spend quite a bit of time on her Mom and Dad’s iPhones. She’s ... read more
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