"Convergence" is a popular term, used in several industries, and usually relating to the blending of two disciplines. In general, the popularity of the term is probably due to the fundamental need for people to gain multidisciplinary knowledge over time. Doing so helps both the company and …
Modern Business Decision-Making
Centralized, top-down decision-making is a business model of the past. As Network World (2004) points out, “decisions don't have to be made or checked by the people at the top all the time” (p. 72). Distributed human decision-making provides for parallel progress, assuming all members are operating …
Folderization and Tags
As computer hardware becomes less expensive and the dollars-per-gigabyte ratio of hard drives falls, the trend is to store huge numbers of files and never delete. For the average user, a hard drive may never reach capacity. As a result, traditional search methods have become proportionally slower …