I'm honored that Daniel A Joseph and John Ettlie have chosen to reference an article on the productivity paradox that I wrote back in 2005. Their reference appears in Strategic ERP Extension and Use, Standford Business Books, 2005 ISBN 0-8047-5098-X, in a chapter titled "IT-Supported Productivity: Paradoxes and Resolution in R&D", pages 130-139.
Joseph and Ettlie challenge the provocative editorial, "IT Doesn't Matter" that was published in Harvard Business Journal in 2003 by Nicholas G. Carr. Their argument is that IT does matter--without skilled management, commodized IT can actually result in lower productivity.
Over the last week, I've been looking at a couple of books. iText In Action is the penultimate reference on the iTextSharp PDF creation library, and PDF Hacks is a great compendium of hints and tricks for working with PDF files.
Here are a couple of PDF Hacks that I found particularly intriguing, in spite of the fact that they're only tangentially related to the PDF format:
Hack #27: Become a Publisher. This one describes how to establish yourself as a publisher so that you can issue your own ISBN numbers. To do this, all that's necessary is a credit card and a visit to http://www.isbn.org.
Hack #29: Publish POD and E-books. POD stands for print-on-demand and it seems that printing books using POD is not as expensive as one might think. http://www.lightningsource.com charges a yearly setup fee and a nominal fee per printing which is something like $5/book.
The Federal Reserve bailout of Bear Sterns strikes me as just absolutely criminal and corrupt. Ayn Rand must be spinning in her grave. What a load of bollucks. That's all I've got to say on that topic.
Joseph and Ettlie challenge the provocative editorial, "IT Doesn't Matter" that was published in Harvard Business Journal in 2003 by Nicholas G. Carr. Their argument is that IT does matter--without skilled management, commodized IT can actually result in lower productivity.
Over the last week, I've been looking at a couple of books. iText In Action is the penultimate reference on the iTextSharp PDF creation library, and PDF Hacks is a great compendium of hints and tricks for working with PDF files.
Here are a couple of PDF Hacks that I found particularly intriguing, in spite of the fact that they're only tangentially related to the PDF format:
Hack #27: Become a Publisher. This one describes how to establish yourself as a publisher so that you can issue your own ISBN numbers. To do this, all that's necessary is a credit card and a visit to http://www.isbn.org.
Hack #29: Publish POD and E-books. POD stands for print-on-demand and it seems that printing books using POD is not as expensive as one might think. http://www.lightningsource.com charges a yearly setup fee and a nominal fee per printing which is something like $5/book.
The Federal Reserve bailout of Bear Sterns strikes me as just absolutely criminal and corrupt. Ayn Rand must be spinning in her grave. What a load of bollucks. That's all I've got to say on that topic.
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