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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Case Question: Open Innovation, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The advantages of open innovation are mainly related to idea generation and tapping into a larger overall fund of knowledge. This paper seems to address two aspects of open innovation – the first had to deal with establishing an online “Facebook”-type communication and alert center to help solve internal problems. I don’t really consider this…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Will, see my post below. One thing to keep in mind is the fact that bands will no longer make money on the sale of their music. Instead, their new revenue model should be based around concerts, paraphernalia, and other ancillary activities. This is an interesting article which discusses profitability in the new digital…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The main advantages to record companies of digital over physical media involve production, distribution, and storage of the materials. With digital media there’s nothing to stamp, package, sell and ship to music warehouses. Speed of distribution is therefore maximized. There also are no other barriers such as import/export tariffs or government…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Alan I agree and I imagine that if I were to write a book I would self-publish. If you go through a publishing company they essentially take all the profits, and unless the book is a top seller you’re unlikely to make much from it. Amazon provides an alternative method for the small or medium volume writer to publish their material relatively…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The question essentially whether or not self-publishing is a disruptive technology. To answer that question we first must determine the degree to which online reading via e-books, Kindle, PDFs and the like has displaced more traditional literature media. When it comes to certain literature such as newspapers the internet has certainly been…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I belong to a number of communities of practice, perhaps most notably is clinical research. This is a community that consists mainly of medical professionals and aspiring physicians. Although I have conducted research in the past, I would say I really became a member when I started working here at the RI. The benefits are many although certainly…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by November 10, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I don’t know that abundance is more disruptive than scarcity to society per se but certainly that notion has some merit when it comes to information specifically as well as some forms of art. We are now entering a world where information is essentially crowd-sourced. We can learn almost everything we need to know from Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruption of Abundance, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Nick, great response and interesting article. I don’t think this is a question of one-or-the-other, as the article title suggests, but rather newer technology complimenting the old. The stethoscope is relatively cheap and easy to use and still gives a large amount of valuable information. The stethoscope is also used to listen to the lungs,…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse wrote a new post on the site Discussion for Last Name Starting H-M 9 years, 7 months ago
I just wanted to provide the following link because I found it interesting and felt it was relevant to tonight’s discussion.
There’s different tiers of HIPAA violations depending on the degree of neglect the individual is responsible for:
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 15, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Adam I agree and great link showing the comparability of AWS to other services. Before reading this article I was under the impression that Google was a leader in cloud computing solutions, mainly because that’s what I have relied on for a long time and Google Drive is used by many people that I know. However when it comes to business computing…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 15, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Will, I also work in healthcare and I too noticed a USB issue. However the way Jefferson manages it is different. Rather than forbidding USB drives entirely – which would be a nightmare to enforce – Jefferson installs encryption software on all computers. When you insert a USB device to a new computer, you are permitted to transfer data from the…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 15, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Dan, great discussion and summary of the case. Essentially the decision to go with web-based services comes down to a present value analysis. For a start-up company, while the initial cost of the infrastructure requirements would be high, once established the maintenance costs become relatively low. The question is whether these costs would be…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 15, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
One theme of this article is how IT is an enabler for globalization and related services. However IT-enabled globalization is similar to the centralization/decentralization decision in some respects and different in others. One reference that highlights this distinction is the discussion concerning which processes were to be changed. The…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
In 2008 Amazon Web Services (AWS) was actually offering twelve services, seven of which are described in the article. Four of these could be described more as products whereas the other three were more for support or to augment the other services. The four major services then are Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), SimpleDB,…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Yes IT has certainly been an enabler for “going global”. Any company with a software platform that can be accessed via the internet can become global at relatively less time an expense than, say, a consumer goods company. Netflix for instance was founded in 1997 and now has subscribers in over 40 countries, with most of their customers in North…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
BYOD is fairly well supported in my workplace. Desktop computers are available and are used by the vast majority of employees. However the virtual desktop app Citrix also allows users to access their data on a laptop or from home if they so choose. The guy that sits next to me for instance regularly brings his laptop to work because he prefers…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
This is a great question, and I’m pretty sure I had to describe “the cloud” to my parents while I was home for Christmas. These two articles do a pretty great job of explaining it. To explain the concept I would draw an analogy. Think of local computing storage as your basement or attic; everything you own, all your packages and photos and things,…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Reading Question: Systems Thinking, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Dan great comment and this reminds me of our recently completed human resources course. Hiring people quickly looking at few factors is akin to a “buy” approach or one where you hire employees to perform simple tasks such as working at McDonalds. Taking a more holistic approach to hiring might be utilized by a business that intends to “make”…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Reading Question: Systems Thinking, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
As a clinical researcher, and as an MD, we are almost wholly bound to the scientific method. Admittedly reductionist thinking pervades the medical community. As the paper points out this is so effective in practice and usually produces outstanding results. However a more holistic thinking approach could complement this research methodology and…[Read more]
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Paul Millhouse commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Chris this is a great idea with respect to Matulovic’s BPTO. However in my opinion the problem is more systemic than that. This project is not considered critical to the VWoA because it is essentially a Stay in Business (SIB) action mandated by VW worldwide and pushed down the chain onto them. However this action is required in order to function…[Read more]
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