About Marjie Cota

Marjie Cota is the VP of Market Development for Mind Over Machines. Don’t hesitate to drop Marjie a comment on this post. Follow Marjie on Twitter , connect with her on LinkedIn or add her to your circles on Google+ for more commentary.

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The Fundamental Techie

IT Personality Traits That May Surprise You

It’s a seller’s market when it comes to top IT talent. As enterprise technology has quickly occupied a larger and larger piece of the organizational asset pie, the technology recruiting scene has become more and more competitive. The Society for Human Resource Management released survey results last year that confirmed what we already know: the high tech sector is finding it significantly harder to find the qualified workers they need.  Read More

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The Benefits of BYOD

Thriving BYOD Culture Drives Business Growth

We are a society that thrives on our personal and mobile devices—they are no longer additions to our personas, but extensions of them. We are intimately connected to our personal technology. So it makes perfect sense that the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) movement has brought the relationship between personal technology and business technology full circle.

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Mashing, Mixing and Maximizing Data

Data Breakthroughs That Changed the Game

Data is a game changer. 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day – and the data comes in all shapes and sizes.  Long gone is the notion that data is just for reporting, or collecting. Mix some innovative understanding of data with some good old-fashioned diligence, and voila – you’ve got a game changer.

Data Access

In 1989, physicist Tim Berners-Lee had an idea to create a single information network that would enable his co-workers to share all the computer-stored data at his laboratory. He was frustrated that access to existing data was so difficult, as it was stored only on particular machines that required additional programming knowledge just to login. Berners-Lee envisioned a collaborative environment where people working together could design something in a common, shared space.

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Enterprise Mobility – Doing It Better

Could Your Enterprise Mobility Strategy Be “Better”?

“To better the world through information technology.” We take our mission seriously, especially when it comes to making our client’s world better. But what exactly does “better” mean? Working smarter? Faster? More efficiently? Expanding sales opportunities? The best technology strategy can only be developed once objectives are clearly understood.

Education is one of the ways we are bettering the world. Often we do it one-on-one with a client, but recently we’ve added another approach:  a technology speaker series. Here, we ask thought leaders to delve deep into topics relevant to organizations’ uses of technology. Read More