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10 out of 10, a recorded Sept ‘08 event you may want to look in on

David Suzuki – Campus Tour

BTW, you may also enjoy some Currents reading about CNA, including an article about an instructor who recently was chair for the first World Virtual Science and Engineering Fair at which Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canadian Astronaut, Physician, Scientist, Author and Photographer, was a special guest and judge.

Continual advances in collaboration will enable quantum leaps in quality on route to 2020 and increasingly greater dimensions of value-inherent, intrinsic and pervasive.

A 10.10.2008 event that may interest you

Here’s a 10.10.2008 event that may interest you. Below are a few words that may also. 

It is good to be proactive while exercising due diligence relative to potential alarmism. It may of course be sometime in the future however before it can be certain whether action toward perceived need was essential and enough. Ideally progress continues to embed quality and elevate value in many ways on route to 2020 and beyond. Ideally all increasingly enjoy balance and a wonderful quality of life forever. Ideally each person somehow helps to continually make the journey through life worthwhile. Even if one lives beyond the age of 100, their life is but a dot in the time continuum. Still what you do with your time just may help to make a positive difference for you and others. Enjoy your life, help others to do the same, and bit by bit try to do something that makes things continually a bit better. Thank you for doing so. The key to evolving quality is you.

The Cloud and beyond

Sharing awareness of a couple of Internet Evolution items:

i) blog post about cyberspace protection and Einstein 3.0

ii) an IBM video about what cloud computing is and why it is vital. 

Intrinsically and pervasively quality may evolve inherent to the Cloud and Cyberspace and in some interconnected way may help to increasingly evolve balance, harmony and what social responsibility can mean for humanity.

Cloud Computing… by 2020 will it be virtually a norm?

Today a reader shared this bit of info on cloud computing. Indented are a few related words that are interesting. Also of potential interest may be The Cloud, billing by consumption, and the future of business intelligence, continuity and competition.

among big metatrends, cloud computing is the hardest one to argue with in the long term

By 2020 will Cloud Computing, laptops and handhelds be virtually global norms?

Learning is treasures within a continual journey

It may be true that the hardest part of science, and perhaps of continually combining unity and diversity to enable greater dimensions of intrinsic and pervasive common wisdom and social responsibility, is finding the right questions.

It may also be true that balance will always be innately important, for example perhaps in relation to achieving improved harmony from global perspectives.

It may also be true that Software, Technology, Information and People working together to continually share awareness, raise consciousness, and find the right questions, is also important.

It may also be true that it is important to grow a mindset that encourages seeking and discovering rather than professing to have all the answers or to have found it all.

Find your purpose, lead out loud or in some way be a contributor to continually helping to evolve quality, value, excellence and simplicity within your organization and beyond. As you do so and as you look towards increasingly being of help to progressively ensuring the future is always brighter for all, perhaps consider some common wisdom that may exist within the past, for example perhaps in relation to ancient Chinese proverbs for example that may say that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; and that learning is a treasure. Perhaps also consider these words…

Quality is innately what to strive to have something consist of and how to go about ensuring such. Furthermore it [quality] is joy associated with a mindset that seeks to embed value and excellence within people, processes and products. Quality is however more than a destination… innately associated with the treasure of Learning, the two are an interconnected continual journey that is elevated and expedited by progressive increases to respect, openness, collaboration and trust. The latter, as Stephen M. R. Covey noted in his book, can enable speed. Recognizing that the journey is a journey can however enable greater global dimensions of balance, harmony, and the virtue of patience, within individuals and teams (and perhaps even within processes and products).

Within the possibilities of matters of high purpose and importance you may somehow help to inspire or contribute to (e.g., perhaps relative to progressively enabling greater global community by increasingly ensuring highly cost-effective high speed internet solutions to every home on the planet… or perhaps relative to how increased interconnectedness may one day enable a greener world where no war, poverty, health or issues or risks exist), may you be blessed with great peace and balance. Thank you for all you do. Have a great weekend and life.

Surfing, Sharing and Loving Country Living

Doing a bit of surfing and sharing (then back to loving country living). Here are a couple of items noted today that anyone may wish to look into: i) a podcast that apparently shares ways one can become a better leader (speaker is the President of the Society of Information Management who has some very nice accomplishments); ii) a book (and a popular video by the author).

When looking for ways to continually improve, remember that balance is and must remain important.

Stability, Security, Balance, and no signs of Apocalypse

You may find these articles interesting: Gen Y seek security and balance; 13 Signs of the Apocalypse. What makes you want to stay with your employer? What signs are you receiving that say you should? Feel free to share what qualities you inherently look for within the ideal employer and place to live. Perhaps increasingly social responsibility will be important in the former. Perhaps the simplicity of a peaceful environment with lots of trees, water and beautiful mountain foot trails fits the latter nicely.

Android; and iPhone vs. Blackberry

Business & Tech Time Android update here; Family Tech Time iPhone vs. Blackberry video here. Which do you prefer or feel inherently contains the characteristics that best fit an IT Pro’s needs, or the needs of the general public? Android, iPhone, Blackberry or Other.

Can a keynote help find the where of your happiness?

Sharing awareness of an upcoming keynote, perhaps the quality within will help people across the globe transform in some way, perhaps finding the where of their happiness.

Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes, the world’s most popular business and financial magazine. In his column “Digital Rules,” Rich writes about technology, entrepreneurship, economical development, and the future of business. Rich joined Forbes in 1992 to start Forbes ASAP, a technology magazine, where he commissioned original works by Tom Wolfe, John Updike and other notable American writers. Rich co-founded Garage Technology Ventures in 1997, Upside Magazine in 1988, and the 5,500-member Churchill Club in 1985. He also is the author of the book, Life 2.0 How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness.

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Green, Fiction or Fact

When determining Green fact or fiction there may be value to looking in on what Gartner has to say, or in digging through an ITtoolbox CIO Knowledge Base, or in exploring BusinessInnovation and what may be included for “using IT as a catalyst to succeed”, or in using a calculator (e.g., perhaps from Nortel) to determine your possible energy efficiency savings, or in reading a free report within ITBusinessEdge, or in various ways to exploring GreenerComputing and “resources for environmentally responsible computing”.

In the past number of months of the current year has your Green movement (IT and corporate in general) made significant progress? For example perhaps progress relative to discerning Green fact from fiction. Ideally your efforts (and the efforts of many including hardware and other vendors) will increasingly bring about improved clarity and positive results that are progressively and continually more intrinsic and pervasive before, by and beyond 2020.

Thank you for all you do; and for helping the world increasingly become one on matters of high purpose. Green IT and beyond!

Earlier this year, Garner Inc. highlighted 10 key predictions that would affect IT and business decisions in 2008 and beyond. Three of the items on the list were:

• “By 2009, more than one-third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods.”
• “By 2010, 75 percent of organizations will use full lifecycle energy and CO₂ footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.”
• “By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status.” ¹

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The positive affect IT is having and increasingly can have

When you look within the progress of your IT vendors (database, application, hardware or other) it is likely you will see them striving in one regard or another to make a world of difference. For example perhaps see this 2006 internetnews.com piece about OpenWorld, or this 2006 news as part of Oracle Global Volunteer Days, or coming closer to the present see this piece about the Volunteer Days in 2007 or this page about Oracle Corporate Citizenship.

The positive affect IT is having and increasingly can have on intrinsically and pervasively evolving quality and quality of life around the world is endless and some may even say virtually miraculous. To Oracle, and all within the IT Industry, who continually strive to make the world a better place, Thank You for all you do. Inherently your quality and your contributions to what quality increasingly can mean on a global scale, are the key.

Eco-Innovation and the Internet

Perhaps you remember this VIIP post; well recently on the EcoInnovator Blog the founder of Better Place said the time is right for electric vehicles. Perhaps you think it soon may be, and perhaps you may also be interested in reviewing videos on the Corporate EcoForum (for example, perhaps one entitled “Engaging Employees and Creating an Eco-Innovation Culture”).

The future will increasing be brighter thanks to the efforts of many. This post takes no credit however does applaud the continual progress that can increasingly be found inherent to the Internet.

The way of Leadership and ensuring the success

Learn to better know the way by looking within and trusting self and others. Leaders can stand back and shift from control and entitlement to radical humility in order to more so respect, reward and empower the team so they say, “We ensured quality, inherently” and actually do. However it may be that it is important even for leaders (or perhaps especially for leaders) to internalize, with foresight, that standing too far in the background may not always be best. People may need to see you periodically to be reassured that you care, have awareness, provide valuable insight and are inherently part of the team as one of the key contributors to success.

You may not find the coach on the ice during the game, but you typically see them with the team during the big game, and often on the ice in practice sessions leading to the big game. The GM and other management may not be immediately in view of the players during practices or games; however are likely catching parts of the action while thinking about what may be needed to increasingly ensure the success of the business.

It may be that teams gearing up to brainstorm on potential improvements may like to whiteboard on enhancements associated with the six W’s of Leadership… who, what, when, where, why and the way (i.e. the how). Something to think about perhaps while you prepare to increasingly learn about and be a contributor to the evolution of a profession and its interrelated possibilities for ensuring the success of business, and in general improvements to the quality of life throughout the global community.

Learning about and contributing to the evolution of a profession

Learning to better know, share and contribute to the evolution of the IT profession is important. As the world gains greater dimensions of awareness all will increasingly see and become greater contributors to shaping the realities of a continually improved future that innovatively and progressively enhances quality of life for all.

The IT Industry is embarking on a global change which has the pure potentiality to have quality (value, excellence and simplicity) increasingly be intrinsic and pervasive.

This blog takes no credit for the innate nature and characteristics of the on-going quality movement; it simply encourages you to increasingly be one with continually making things better. Thank you for doing so.

Governance, Peace, Energy and Talent

Teams gearing up for a bit of brainstorming may like to warm-up with a few videos, for example perhaps on Governance, Peace, Energy and Talent. Globally from various quality perspectives, which of the latter four noted potential topics do you inherently think is most important?

This blog takes no credit for the noted videos, simply shares awareness.