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GENERAL BUSINESS EXECUTIVE UPDATE

Microsoft in Twilight Zone: End of the Beginning, or, Beginning of the End?
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/04_16/b3879001_mz001.htm

Executive Compensation: Pay at some of the biggest U.S. Corporations
http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/2004/0416_execpay.pdf

Can Brain Scans Read Consumers' Minds?: Thoughts Now, Feelings and Beliefs Next? 
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/04_16/b3879103.htm

CEOs Learn the Technology Ropes: The New CEO-CIO Relationship
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/apr2004/tc20040413_9334_tc146.htm

Taming IT Projects: A Primer for Business Executives
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/apr2004/tc20040413_1163_tc146.htm

Privacy: What CEOs Need to Know
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/apr2004/tc20040413_0170_tc146.htm

Info Security "from the Ground Up"
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/apr2004/tc20040413_9762_tc146.htm

The Pros and Cons of IT Off-Shoring for Business Enterprises
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/apr2004/tc20040413_4748_tc146.htm

Linux is Popping All Over
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040330_8251_tc167.htm

Misadventures in Indian Outsourcing:
Can US Small Business Enteprises Trust Many Off-shoring Vendors? Would You?
http://www.businessweek.com/print/smallbiz/content/apr2004/sb2004041_5674.htm
Many of these outsourcing companies out there "are now spoiled rotten."

Off-shoring: An 'Unfair' Game Deterimental to US Citizens and US Economy?
http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/11/commentary/dobbs/dobbs/index.htm

The Joy Of Leadership
http://www.cio.com/archive/031504/leadership.html?printversion=yes

Upcoming U.S. Tech Shortage of Technology Knowledge Workers?
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8221460.htm

Get Out of the 'Routine'... Or Follow the Dinosaurs!
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/04_12/b3875615.htm

Productivity Gains = Anemic Job Growth? Can't Trust History Any More?
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/04_12/b3875603.htm

Starbucks To Serve 'Digital Songs to Go' with Cafe Latte
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2004/nf20040311_7142_db016.htm

Off Shore Outsourcing: The Real Cause for Decline in American Jobs?
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/04_12/b3875614.htm

Jobless Recovery Attributed 'not' to Outsourcing but High Productivity
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/04_12/b3875601.htm

All Companies Need a Chief Knowledge Officer... Says Lester Thurow
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/78/helpwanted.html
Related Readings:
Knowledge Management and New Organization Forms:
A Framework for Business Model Innovation
http://www.brint.org/KMNewOrg.pdf
Knowledge Management for New Business Models:
Advancing Information Strategy to 'Internet Time'
http://www.kmbook.com/kmebiz/kmebiz.html

Managerial Capitalism is Dead Says Harvard Professor... Self-Determination is In
http://pf.fastcompany.com/magazine/78/szuboff.html

Coming of Age... The Social Enterprise and Social Capitalists
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/78/social_intro.html

Can Human Memories Be Erased?
http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0006783F-2CFE-1FE2-ACFE83414B7FFE9F

Trends in Advertising Industry: From TV to Internet?
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/ceo/articles/0,15114,565460,00.html

Internet Telelphony (VoIP) Special Report (Business Week)
 When PCs are used to make phone calls through Internet... Users Gain...
Sophisticated Features, Lower Prices that will Restructure Telecom
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc2004016_3363_tc138.htm
When is a phone call not a phone call? FCC Ponders...
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc2004016_9317_tc138.htm
VoIP Becoming Popular with Customers: Telcos duke it out with Cable companies
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc2004016_6608_tc138.htm
New P2P Game Beyond KaZaA... Will It "Screw the Phone System"
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc2004016_5171_tc138.htm
Phone Service the "Zero Cost" Way: Internet Threatens Telcos and Cable Companies?
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc2004016_0848_tc138.htm

Grokker... Poses Threat to Google?
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,563090,00.html

Better search results than Google?
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/05/seeing.search1.ap/index.html

The Best and Worst Managers of the Year 2003
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/04_02/B38650402best.htm

ABC of Intellectual Property: A Refresher in IP Protection
http://www.csoonline.com/fundamentals/abc_ip.html

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE UPDATE

Why A National Security Card Would Make Us Less Secure
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4698350.html

Security: Browser-Based Attacks On The Rise
http://www.securitypipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18901129

The New CIO: In a Real "C" Role?
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,91843,00.html

The New CIO: More Sustainable?
http://www.cio.com/archive/040104/role.html?printversion=yes

Where's the Beef?: Determining and Measuring IT Value
http://www.cio.com/archive/040104/value.html?printversion=yes

Here's the Beef!: Real Insights Into Measuring IT Value
http://www.kmnetwork.com/KnowledgeManagementRealTimeEnterpriseBusinessModels.pdf

Google's GMail Announcement Stirs Up Privacy Concerns Around the World
http://www.thestandard.com/article.php?story=20040408162241679

IT Project Management: Soft Skills Matter Besides Technical Skills
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,92031,00.html

The Joy Of Leadership
http://www.cio.com/archive/031504/leadership.html?printversion=yes

Upcoming U.S. Tech Shortage of Technology Knowledge Workers?
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8221460.htm

Conquer Outsourcing Fears: Become the Outsourcer CRO
http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article/0,1406,a=118611,00.asp

Process Quality and Software Quality Model Frameworks: A Review
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,90797,00.html

Bursting the CMM Hype: In Search of 'Objective' Metrics
http://www.cio.com/archive/030104/cmm.html?printversion=yes

The TCO Trap: Balancing 'Costs' and 'Value' 
http://www.cio.com/archive/030104/realvalue.html?printversion=yes

GPS and RFID Technologies: The 'Morale Costs' of Monitoring and Tracking
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,90518,00.html

DHS Gets Relegated to the Corporate Security Margin
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,90863,00.html

Mining Healthcare Data for 'Predicting' Patients' Futures
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,90833,00.html