Development by Davis: “Leading by letting go” plus 5 more

Leading by letting go
Poll: What's your favorite creative design tool?
AMD Announces Support for RealD's BlueLine Technology; Addresses Rapid Market Adoption of 3D DLP Projectors with AMD FirePro Graphics
AMD Extends Leadership in Data Center Innovation - First to Optimize the Micro Server for Big Data
AMD Delivers a New Generation of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon "Ivy Bridge" Processors in its New SeaMicro SM15000 Micro Server Chassis
Is open source democratic?

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Organizations today face unprecedented challenges. A recent IBM sponsored global survey found that the key challenges CEOs face today are rapidly accelerating pace of change and complexity. Furthermore, performance continues to decline whether measured through Return on Assets or Return on Invested Capital; U.S. firm's Return on Assets has progressively dropped 75% since 1965, as Peter Drucker pointed out in 1999, management has done much to automate work with mechanizations improvements during the 20th Century of 50/1. What remains however, is improving the effectiveness of the knowledge worker. Furthermore, data shows that only 25% of the workforce is passionate about their work, despite the plethora of techniques and resources spent on L&D and global figures for engagement show that 80% of employees are less than fully engaged at work.

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Poll: What's your favorite creative design tool?

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT

Which creative tool do you use the most?

MyPaint

Krita

GIMP

Blender

Inkscape

Audacity

Scribus

Kdenlive

Adobe Photoshop

Last week, Red Hatter Máirín Duffy gave us a run down of her favorite open source creative tools. This week, we turn the table and ask you which application you favor in every day practice.

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AMD Announces Support for RealD's BlueLine Technology; Addresses Rapid Market Adoption of 3D DLP Projectors with AMD FirePro Graphics

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced it has entered into a strategic licensing agreement with RealD Inc. (NYSE: RLD), which will pair AMD FirePro™ professional graphics with RealD's patented Bl...

AMD Extends Leadership in Data Center Innovation - First to Optimize the Micro Server for Big Data

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the SeaMicro SM15000™ server, another computing innovation from its Data Center Server Solutions (DCSS) group that cements its position as the technology leader in the micro server category. AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server revolutionizes computing with the invention of Freedom™ Fabric Storage, whic...

AMD Delivers a New Generation of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon "Ivy Bridge" Processors in its New SeaMicro SM15000 Micro Server Chassis

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of three pioneering innovations that firmly cement the company as the leader in fabric computing, micro servers and data center technology. The first innovation is a new chassis, AMD's SeaMicro SM15000™ server, which extends fabric-based computing across racks and aisles of the...

Is open source democratic?

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT

In his recent post, Glyn Moody asks an important question: "Can open source be democratic?" He describes how free software emerged as a distributed, bottom-up system of writing code. The central defining aspects of that culture are a uniquely open process not just of programming but also of its organization, and a close relationship between programmers and users. Effectively, users and programmers together were both contributors, they collaborated on the project. Glyn goes on to explain how this community effort changed over time to become more institutionalized, more corporate and more dull—"becoming a 'Firefox Affiliate', hardly something that sets the pulse racing." Ordinary users no longer play an important part in open source projects.