Readings for the 1st Half of 2002

Berkman, Eric. Skills; Successful CIOs Stress Business Acumen, Not Technical Expertise. [IN: CIO; the Magazine for Information Executives. Mar. 1, 2002; pp. 78-82]
http://www.cio.com/archive/030102/skills.html

Book Detective - Out-of-print STM-literature. Woburn; Web: LSL Boston, 2002 Source for scientific, technical and medical publications. LSL Boston.com L.L.C., 155 M New Boston Street, Suite 142, Woburn, MA 01801. Phone: (781)376-9797, Fax: (781) 376-5599.email: Susanne.Pfau@LSLBoston.com

Datz, Todd. Tapping Into the Company Gold Mine. [IN: Darwin (CIO), June, 27, 2002]."The big guys—…know the value of their intellectual property and the money that patents can bring in. It's time you started paying attention to your patent portfolio." http://www.darwinmag.com/read/060102/intellect.html

Davenport, Tom. Enterprise IT at the Crossroads; Companies Need to Use Technology for Long-term Business Advantage While Making Short-term Cost Cuts. [IN: CIO; the Magazine for Information Executives. Mar. 15, 2002; pp. 36-38] Davenport makes the case for consolidating and integrating every possible process that can be managed by a single solution citing, "What makes for competitive advantage is differentiation, a close fit with the business model and human effort to match strategies to systems." http://www.cio.com/archive/031502/davenport.html

Godfray, H. Charles. Challenges for Taxonomy; The discipline will have to reinvent itself if it is to survive and flourish. [IN: Nature. May 2, 2002; pp. 17-19] Argument for the evolution of organism taxonomy development to a Web-based enterprise that can also be downloaded in print. Notes that it will never be complete in much the way that the human genome mapping is not done even though it has been announced as complete.

Hubel, Martin. A Quick Guide to Managing Content. [IN: DB2 Magazine. Qtr. 1, 2002; pp. 16-18] Comments that only about 20% of the information that organizations need to manage in comprehensive projects is stored in databases. The remainder (images, electronic documents, XML, HTML, faxes, email, etc.) is unstructured data types. http://www.db2mag.com/db_area/archives/2002/q1/contentmgmt.shtml

Kelman, Peter. Recycling IP: Most of the Time You Can't Take It With You. [IN: Mass high tech. May 6, 2002, p. 15] http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?art_id=57103&search=Recycling+IP+

Lambert, Nancy. Patent Express: The End of an Era. [IN: Information Today, Newsbreaks 06/10/2002]. British Lending Library announces eliminate of Patent Express service because: "A number of resources have arisen in recent years that provide patent copies over a wide time range from the U.S., major European countries, the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty or “World” patents), and Japan. Most of them are relatively inexpensive and several, including the Web sites of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office, are free." Among these are Minesoft, MicroPatent, and Derwent. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020610-3.htm

Perez, Jeanette. Protecting intellectual property is now a business imperative. [IN: Intelligent KM, 06/12/02]. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/020613/510news2.shtml

Plitch, Phyllis. The Legal Theorist; What is intellectual property in the age of PCs and the Internet? Pamela Samuelson thinks she knows. [IN: Wall street journal. May 13, 2002; pp. R12-R13]

Russom, Philip. An Eye for the Needle. [IN: Web: Intelligent Enterprise, 01/14/2002, 6p.] Cites the need for categorizing knowledge workers’ expertise and the content they use, which requires taxonomy development. Suggests processes by which the need can be met. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/020114/502feat2_1.shtml

Vaas, Lisa. Tools of the Trade; Taxonomy Skills in Short Supply for All but a Handfull of Companies. [IN: eWeek. April 1, 2002. V. 29, No. 3; p. 41] http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D709%2526a%253D24896,00.asp

Wenger, Etienne. It Takes a Community, [an excerpt from Cultivating Communities of Practice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Press by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder.] [In: CIO; The Magazine for Information Executives. May 15, 2002; pp. 111-114]. Emphasizes seven basic practices to encourage in a company to foster a healthy exchange of information and knowledge. http://www.cio.com/archive/051502/excerpt.html

Wiggins, Richard W. AT&T Business Services to Provide a Norwegian Tour Guide for FirstGov.gov. [IN: Information Today, Newsbreaks. 03/18/2002] Discusses selection of the Norwegian product FAST by the U.S. government. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020318-1.htm

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