Al-Ahram Weekly | Culture | A critical exile
A century after his birth, Ernest Wolf-Gazo recalls the life and achievements of Theodor Adorno
...a search engine ceaselessly operates in Adorno's mind, attempting to locate non-identity -- his way of escaping the tyranny of subject-object epistemology...
SearchWebServices.com :: Web services are for small businesses, too
by Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst, ZapThink, LLC
...individuals can just as easily realize benefits of Web services as their larger company counterparts by simplifying the interaction and exchange of information among the various pieces of desktop software that they require to maintain their productivity, either as knowledge workers or small business owners...
Canny consumers can always get what they want - www.theage.com.au
By Leon Gettler
This piece is predominantly about the reverse engineering of a new "Pink" drink in response to consumer preferences, and it ties up with some quotes from Peter Drucker:
...Drucker says tomorrow belongs to the knowledge technologists, computer technicians, software designers, analysts in clinical labs, manufacturing technologists and paralegals. These people are as much manual workers as they are knowledge workers; in fact, they usually spend far more time working with their hands than with their brains...
CIO | Future Results Not Guaranteed
by Ben Worthen, CIO
Interesting piece on the failure of demand forecasting and supply chain solutions to include and capitalize on the importance of an enterprise's knowledge workers in conjunction with technology.
...Good demand forecasting requires a combination of accurate data and smart people. Up-to-date sales data and point-of-sale (POS) information will almost always improve a forecast. So will having the processes and people in place to make sense of anomalous results or simply to check computer-generated predictions against the pulse on the street...
...employer-focused, Web-based technology that leverages the experience and knowledge of professionals from all walks of life, to create an ever-expanding knowledge base used to manage human capital and grow organizational profits...
The Globe and Mail :: Electronic health records offer big payoff
By David Ticoll
...There are all sorts of opportunities at the other side of this rainbow. Jobs for new kinds of high-tech knowledge workers. Outsourcing diagnostic imaging and other activities...
msmobiles.com - P300 and P700 - new Pocket PC phones coming from E-TEN around Novembe 2003
...Designed for youthful professionals and road warrior knowledge workers, the E-TEN P300 with a built-in digital camera, helps users integrate their digital lifestyle with mobile business and personal productivity capabilities...
The Globe and Mail :: Slater Steel seeks court permission for bonuses
By Greg Keenan
..."These employees possess valuable institutional knowledge that would be difficult to replace," the filing said. "If these employees are lost, it would be very difficult, costly and time-consuming for the [company] to attract qualified replacements."...
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