Smart Takes

Archive: 11-2011

• GE software tags, aggregates enterprise ‘big data’

  What will collect, aggregate and analyze all the data coming from your company’s operations? GE hopes it will be its new Proficy Historian 4.5 software.

  November 30, 2011, 8:40 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca

• China: for innovation, too big to fail?

  John Quelch writes in the Harvard Business Review that China has a clear, coordinated innovation strategy — and the U.S. does not. Is the “Asian Century” upon us?

  November 30, 2011, 7:40 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca

• A peek at Exeter College’s new ‘third quad’

  Alison Brooks Architects won the competition to design a new quadrangle for a 700-year-old university in the U.K. It’s a study in balancing past and present.

  November 30, 2011, 7:23 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca

• Information overload: you’re at fault, not technology

  Tired, stressed and incapable of paying attention? You’re suffering from information overconsumption, not overload. And it’s your fault, Clay Johnson argues.

  November 30, 2011, 7:00 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca

• Why your office is so unbearable (hint: it’s the design)

  Why does your workplace suck? LUNAR’s John Edson offers three traits that no company can afford to exclude when it comes to office design.

  November 30, 2011, 6:47 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca

• ACS acquires Breakaway; cloud-based EMR training for healthcare

  Xerox-owned ACS will acquire The Breakaway Group in a bid to bring cloud-based training for electronic medical records to nurses and physicians.

  November 29, 2011, 10:19 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca

• U.S. Navy preps electromagnetic aircraft launch system

  The U.S. Navy completed four successful test runs of its new electromagnetic aircraft launch system for carriers.

  November 29, 2011, 8:42 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca

• Atlanta unifies, digitizes downtown surveillance systems

  The City of Atlanta has upgraded and unified disparate surveillance systems to better survey activity in its downtown district. Motorola landed the contract.

  November 29, 2011, 8:11 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca

• With 3-D imaging, a new face for extreme surgery

  A new type of three-dimensional model can help surgeons better predict and plan for the extreme procedure of face transplantation.

  November 29, 2011, 7:42 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca

• ‘Shadow models’ help cities optimize energy consumption

  With the help of atmospheric data and several supercomputers, Spanish researchers have created “shadow models” that can help a city optimize energy consumption.

  November 29, 2011, 6:51 AM PST | By Andrew Nusca