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But it has achieved all it can in that respect and any further improvements would be marginal. The next frontier for it is the non-routine work that lends itself less readily to automation - and here the talk is of 'augmentation': helping people come to decisions more quickly, and helping support any consequent action.
With knowledge workers, such as managers, who deal with non-routine kinds of work, the idea of productivity is different. As (management guru Peter) Drucker pointed out, you don't pay them by the hour but by results,' says Lopez. 'The question is: how do you help that class of worker become productive?'
Restrictive Polices vs. Capturing Productivity
The promise of all forms of interactive communication including those defined as Web 2.0 and form the foundation of social networking have the potential to significantly increase productivity, yet these technologies are "open" in terms of who one can communicate with. Many employers restrict the use of company e-mail systems for personal use, as this opens up legal liabilities to them and also can significantly impact e-mail system performance. There's a balance what is needed between...
This shift from restrictive policies or a lack of new technology to adoption is seen in the rapid growth of Instant Messaging in companies, and with that, the exponential growth of Twitter as a means of microblogging and interactive communication. The following syndicated article from Knight Ridder News Service illustrates this transition in terms of Instant Messaging (Sostek, et.al.):
The appeal of the software, its users say, is its immediacy. Rather than an e-mail that might sit ignored in an inbox, an IM invitation pops right up on the computer screen, flashing until it gets attention. Once the request to chat is accepted, the pop-up window stays open until the users log off, allowing for steady back and forth communication.
If there's a deadline, we can get more done using IM than e-mail," said Ms. Crandell.
The appeal of IM also highlights some of the flaws of e-mail, the backbone of corporate Internet
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Whereas adult obesity rates have always been present, they have never been so high. What is more worrisome is that youth is becoming increasingly obese. The American Heart & Stroke Association conducted a study, for instance, in which it found the following data to be true: "Among children ages 2 -- 19, about 1 in 3 are overweight and obese (BMI-for-age at or above the 85th percentile of the 2000
..social skills are built and educational choices are made that influence the entire adulthood" (90). Thus, the concern on the possible effects Internet addiction can have on the youth's development as an adult makes escalating Internet use and eventual addiction not just a concern, but must also be considered as a serious mental health problem that progresses through the user's formative years from adolescent to adult stages. It is in
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This lead was accomplished through a partnership nearly a half-century old among government, industry and academia. I member of that partnership was the National Science Foundation (NSF). As Strawn noted, early on, scientists and engineers at American universities began to join the young ARPANet, as they worked on basic research funded primarily by the NSF. Acknowledging this, the NSF began supporting national supercomputing centers, in the mid-1980s, as a
At the bottom line, the issue at hand is with the sanctity and safety of the students and the responsibility of the university to preserve and develop that. Moreover, many of these students are dallying into multi-dimensional virtual worlds that are beginning to closely resemble the physical world and that are having their own ethical issues arise (Wankel & Malleck, 2010). Universities need to educate themselves as to what those