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Gabriel Giordano
PhD in Management Information Systems, The Florida State University. Gabriel Giordano is an assistant professor in the Information Systems Department. His current research looks at virtual work teams, computer-based communication and deception, and differences between traditional and computer-mediated work settings. Gabriel has presented research on these topics at international conferences, and his work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of the AIS, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Communications of the AIS. Before coming to IESE, Gabriel worked at Research International, where he was responsible for automating marketing research reporting processes, and at Westinghouse, where he worked in the Emergency Management Department at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Areas of interest: * Virtual Teams * Computer-based communication and deception * IS strategy
Posts by Gabriel Giordano
CIO Concerns – 2009
January 9, 2009 - 3:33 pm
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With the economic turmoil that businesses will face in the coming year, technology managers will face a new level of difficulty that should seem especially tough after several recent positive periods regarding business technology. Many technology analysts are now releasing reports that summarize CIO concerns for the difficult times ahead.
Most analyst seem to agree with [...]
Finding Lies in New Interview Settings
November 26, 2008 - 12:21 pm
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One of the main concerns for many people in tough economic times is the job search process. Researchers have found that a poor economy can have a significant psychological effect on individuals looking for jobs. Individuals affected by downsizing will likely have low confidence and self-esteem and will think that it is necessary to appear
super-qualified [...]
More on cloud computing…
November 11, 2008 - 5:11 pm
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A couple of posts ago, I talked about Microsoft’s potential move into cloud computing. However, since that time, Microsoft formally announced their development of a cloud-based system and cloud computing has been getting even more media attention. This post is a follow-up to the previous post, and it is meant to be a quick guide [...]
Microsoft’s “Virtual” Future
October 24, 2008 - 5:19 pm
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Microsoft has traditionally been a company that sells packaged software for personal computers. However, as several companies have recently created online environments for running applications, Microsoft has quickly changed their strategy to compete with this new model (which is now often called “cloud computing”). As described in MIT’s Technology Review, “a computing cloud is made [...]
HP-EDS Merger
September 18, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Tags: EDS, HP
Posted in Current Affairs | 8 comments
A huge story in the IT world this week was the announcement of the acquisition of Electronic Data Systems by Hewlett-Packard. Information Week reported that the deal is the largest in the outsourcing sector’s history, and that it is the second largest ever in the IT industry overall (It’s second only to HP’s $19 billion [...]
