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Hiding in plain sight

Monday, March 1st, 2010

This article is focused on information technology, security, and monitoring the flow of your IPR beyond your firewall.

Technical? Yes. But I will try to make it understandable for a non-technical audience (the one that actually could use some of the ideas).

The concept? More than an article, a simple sharing of a potential issue and its (cheap) solution.

With a side-effect: once implemented, the solution could also act as a preventive defence against yet unknown issues using the same method- overloading the “filtering”.

Why now?

Over the week-end I was “testing the waters” inside an online community, to see if it would be a worthwhile effort to resurrect a security software/platform that I started creating at the end of the 1980s, to fill my (pre-Internet) travel time.

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Writing-tank

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Next week I will start publishing some “what if” segments derived from my previous Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI article.

As today is Sunday, before starting with the first what-if in this series, I wanted just to share some writing ideas.

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Ryanair vs ENAC- observations on Schengen's side-effects

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Following Italian news is almost a full-time job, and also in Italy I met quite a few people whose only source of information is the sampling of few TV news.

If you missed the news- it has been reported that the T.A.R. (an administrative court of appeals) sided with ENAC’s decision that “in the interest of consumers” any kind of ID issued by Italian authorities (including hunting and driving licenses) is acceptable to identify yourself for internal flights, not just those recognized by other members states.

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Preview: Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

The title of this article is both a provocation and a simple statement of facts.
It is funny to observe as something that was often the most critical issue with startups and growing SMEs is now visible in sensibly larger organizations.
The issue? The temptation of reducing risk by spreading too thin across multiple line of activities.
In [...]

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Preview: Micronews & citizens' audit

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

In 2008 I converted part of my research on social networks and social networking online into material to be embedded within a marketing book.
I wasn’t the first (e.g. Google’s CEO said that the impact on printed news would be an increased demand of quality content), and would certainly not be the last extoller of the [...]

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Preview: A borderless world

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Since at least 1970s, we all became used to (potential) seamless and instantaneous access to financial resources worldwide.
Over the last few decades, this extended also to the assembly line and supply chain.
The missing link is still the people.
We are burdened by increasingly Byzantine rules on movement and resettlement, whose complexity is creating an industry in [...]

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Preview: Geolocalization

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

If you visited websites recently, often you found that the website was tailored not just to your our language settings, but also to your own location.
As an example, search websites now have “virtual” country search sites- and, of course, spammers too.
While companies redesigned their (physical) logistics chain, often the value of geolocalization (i.e. pinpointing your [...]

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Preview: No Man's Land

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

I had the chance to observe organizations and communities since quite an early age, and something was really fascinating.
When organizations expand, often it is assumed that the “culture” of the original entity will spread to all its parts- as if the center were the heart, and the parts (branches, subsidiaries, etc) were limbs of the [...]

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What’s coming next :)

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

As I wrote few days ago, I prepared few short articles.
I will alternate between technical and non-technical abstracts.
Each article comes from a simple consideration: for all the talking about “continuous improvement”, few organizations consider what is needed to seed innovation and self-sustaining improvement.
If you visit the CMMI website, beside books, whitepapers, and reports on technology, [...]

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What would you like to read about?

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Well, this short post is really for my current subscribers and twitter followers (on @robertolofaro and @aleph123, or people linked to my business/pro-bono facebook profile.

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