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(1/31/2007) Resistance to change exists due to a gap in understanding of how to successfully build new forms of partnerships, the report continues, and to overcome the challenges of increased complexity. | (1/15/2007) As innovation helps keep the Canadian economy competitive, and innovation thrives on research and development, IT decision-makers are often hard pressed for faster, larger computing resources that are capable of supporting massive simultaneous workloads. | (1/5/2007) Following weeks of speculation Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has been repurposed to Intergovernmental Affairs, seemingly a casualty of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's first cabinet shuffle. | (12/15/2006) Former Ontario CIO Scott Campbell points out that if governments don't take the lead by dealing with cross-jurisdictional decisions, they run the risk of being replaced by e-communities - non-governmental groups of individuals who come together online to lobby for a decision. | (12/15/2006) Canada is among the global leaders in e-government and service transformation at the federal level, but more Canadians are likely to perceive greater benefits at the local level, where municipal governments are bringing day-to-day services online with a passion. | (12/12/2006) A couple of years ago Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, produced an essay called "The Long Tail." It showed how e-commerce is revolutionizing industries like books, music and film by moving us from mass production and mass marketing to niche products and niche marketing. | (11/28/2006) Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufactures of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products will be the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in the capital of Kenya. | (11/23/2006) A new strategy for funding technology research in the European Union calls for the E.U. to pool its vast resources with those from private industry and individual member states in a public-private partnership. | (11/8/2006) Lower costs, reduced complexity, and increased convenience, were key drivers that led Matrix Solutions Inc. to outsource its data centre operations. | (11/1/2006) An index of all past and present Hot Wires. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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