NEWS
With Motorola Sale to Lenovo, Google is Unloading a Headache
By Stephen Lawson via CIO UK
Yesterday Lenovo agreed to buy Motorola from Google for $2.91 billion, pending regulatory approval, much less than the $12.5 billion Google paid for Motorola in 2011. It would seem that Google bought the company for its patents rather than for his handset business back in 2011, Google kept those patents in the deal. This allows Lenovo to enter into the US market, as a Chinese multinational company, one wonders what this means for Google's relationship with China.
Frost & Sullivan's Enterprise Social Study Shows Market Growing Quickly
By Melanie Turek via No Jitter
"The market data is clear: More and more employees are using ESN to help their organizations become more agile and responsive; categorize information and make it more accessible; manage tacit and explicit knowledge; facilitate collaboration within and across teams; increase their engagement; accelerate decision making; and improve business processes."
ARTICLES
Cloud Availability Trumps Security Concerns when it Comes to Shadow IT
By Dave Le Clair via Network World
"As pressure mounts to deliver value with ever-increasing speed, lines of business (LOB) are often drawn to cloud computing's ease of use, flexibility and rapid time-to-value." What are IT leaders to do about it? Dave Le Clair gives 5 ways CIOs can make sure LOB choose the right option.
7 Ways Wearables Will Go to Work
By J.P. Gownder via Information Week
I haven't really paid much attention to all of the wearables hype, until I read this article. I don't want to look like RoboCop, and I doubt that anyone I know does. But these 7 ways wearables could change industries caught my attention.
INSPIRATION
IT Executives Need Deeper Understanding of Transformation
By Liz Benison via CIO UK
"Nearly every organisation in every industry is undergoing dramatic change, and IT executives can be key enablers of these changes — but only if they can adapt and update their own roles. CIOs and other IT executives need to fully understand the fundamentals of transformation. Then they need to lead their organisations through the cycle of change."
