Enabling the innovators within

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Jan 3, 20071 min

Columnist’s corner: The time has come to decide which 2006 New Year’s resolutions to abandon and then hold onto those worth bringing along for the 2007 ride. While you’re at it, David Margulius has a few to add to that new list in this week’s installment of Enterprise Insight. My favorite: enable innovators within your IT shops and allocate as much as 3 percent of your budget for such risky, yet creative, ventures.

Best of the blogs: Toward the end of last year, David Linthicum posed the following: Should you fire your enterprise architect? Well, the post drew “a large, somewhat grumpy reaction.” So he’s reworking the test for determining an answer and even grading on a curve. But the problem remains. “Many organizations are getting bad advice, and IT architectures continue to hinder the growth and agility of many businesses.”

The news beat: A security vulnerability is found in an Acrobat Reader plugin; it could let arbitrary JavaScript code launch a malicious attack. The IDG News Service looks at January’s coolest gadgets spanning more useful cell phones, a rugged laptop, and a network camera. And, in a piece of very sad news, Earthlink’s CEO Garry Betty has passed on after battling cancer.