Managing Technology


Recent Managing Technology Articles

Group Insurance

By William R. Pape |  Jun 15, 1997

A former CIO explains how virtual teams can quickly gather information for even your most far-flung staffers.  Read more

Grand Illusions

By Moe Meyerson |  Jun 15, 1997

A middle manager's lighthearted look at why intranets are great for sharing inaccurate information.  Read more

Good Vibrations

By Alex Palermo |  Jun 15, 1997

An online psychic explains how he is using technology to predict the future, talk with the dead, and track customers.  Read more

Interfacing the Facts

By Alan Joch |  Jun 15, 1997

A technology expert wonders if the next universal desktop will be easy to use, and tells why ease-of-use is important.  Read more

Future Computing

By Gary A. Taubes |  Jun 15, 1997

The ultimate business software is here, but you'll have to wait about 10 years to run it.  Read more

Mission Impossible?

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jun 15, 1997

An executive editor at Inc. declares the Road Warrior mission: Manufacturers, make things work!  Read more

Is Your Data Safe?

By Sarah Schafer |  Jun 15, 1997

Tips and suggestions for choosing the best security for your company's computer system.  Read more

Wee Windows Computer

By David Abrahamson |  Jun 15, 1997

A U.S. Army major reviews a handheld device that works in the Windows environment, but that may cramp your style.  Read more

Location, Location, Location

By Joshua D. Macht |  Jun 15, 1997

Here's a nightmare scenario: You're far from home, lost and driving through some mountain range on a snowy winter night when suddenly your car dies. Fortu...  Read more

A River Runs Through IT

By Joshua D. Macht |  Jun 15, 1997

When the Red River recently overflowed its banks and flooded Grand Forks, N. Dak., it displaced more than 50,000 residents and devastated virtually every ...  Read more

How the West Was Wired

By David B. Sicilia |  Jun 15, 1997

A look at how Great Plains farmers used barbed-wire fences to transmit telephone calls.  Read more

Kicking Paper Cold Turkey: Our Reporter Goes Electronic

By Phaedra Hise |  May 3, 1997

Last month I was out with my friend Ted, who runs a small bicycle-marketing business, and he whipped out a little digital datebook called the PalmPilot to...  Read more

Are You Being Served?

By Sarah Schafer |  May 1, 1997

Here's how to untangle the options available to small businesses in search of a computer server.  Read more

Online 101: Intranets

By Phaedra Hise |  Apr 28, 1997

Not all successful Web sites are actually on the Web. Large companies with many different office locations have for some time been using ...  Read more

Make Room for Data

By Cary Lu |  Mar 15, 1997

Inc. 's former technology editor examines some solutions to the problem the Internet faces from overloaded phone lines.  Read more

Fax-Finding Mission

By Sarah Schafer |  Mar 15, 1997

Looking to save money on long-distance faxing? You might want to try the Internet. The fax-service provider FaxSav<...  Read more

Block Buster

By Sarah Schafer |  Mar 15, 1997

Worried about how your employees spend their time online? Just make sure you look before you leap onto the blocking-software bandwagon. Some of the...  Read more

High-Tech Hoods

By Sarah Schafer |  Mar 15, 1997

Criminals have discovered what businesspeople have known for years--automation pays.  Read more

Foreign Power

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Mar 15, 1997

One of Inc.'s editors tells a cautionary tale of what might go wrong when you take your laptop overseas.  Read more

Remote Possibilities

By Moe Meyerson |  Mar 15, 1997

A light-hearted look at how cell phones, modems, and pagers may have made communicating too easy.  Read more

E-Mail Grows Up

By Sarah Schafer |  Mar 15, 1997

Various businesspeople tell how they are using different E-mail packages to handle a variety of tasks.  Read more

Online 101: Finding a Web Site Designer

By Phaedra Hise |  Jan 24, 1997

So you've decided you need a Web site. Perhaps your competitors are already online and making you nervous. Maybe a large customer has asked for Web intera...  Read more

Host Your Own Web Site

Jan 1, 1997

Before you start to design your Web site, you should decide whether you will store it in-house or with an Internet service provider (ISP). Serving a Web s...  Read more

Let Your Clients Do the Talking

Jan 1, 1997

The start of a client relationship is the riskiest phase, according to Dana Hutchins, president and creative director of Image Works, a multimedia product...  Read more

Log On Before Check-In

Jan 1, 1997

Customer satisfaction can soar if you help customers with their planning. Hospitality Partners, a management company responsible for 10 hotels in the Wash...  Read more

Should Netscape Control the Web

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Dec 15, 1996

This article details the problems that users may face as companies stuggle to control the Web browser industry.  Read more

Scoring on the Net

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Dec 15, 1996

Inc. magazine's editor-at-large explains how he hit a home run while shopping on-line.  Read more

GuruWatch

By Inc. staff |  Dec 15, 1996

A noted business expert tells how small companies can use technology to create a highly competitive workplace.  Read more

Autoharping

By Joshua D. Macht |  Dec 15, 1996

A new safety service available to Europeans that allows traffic condition messages to be transmitted between cars.  Read more

Cyberjockeys

By Sarah Schafer |  Dec 15, 1996

An M.I.T. doctoral student talks about his work in shrinking monitors, keyboards, and more for smartclothing.  Read more

The Wiring of the Green

By John Grossman |  Dec 15, 1996

High-tech golf course management and marketing systems combined to make these profiled links among the best.  Read more

Business on Call

By Jennifer deJong |  Dec 15, 1996

Many diverse businesses are learning they can use their new pagers for much more than getting beeped.  Read more

Working Under Pressure

By Lance Rennka |  Dec 15, 1996

The director of an underwater hotel explains how guests are using technology as they learn advanced diving techniques.  Read more

Digital Security

By Sarah Schafer |  Dec 15, 1996

An overview of several new approaches to protecting your computer from unauthorized users.  Read more

Hacked to Pieces

By Paul G. Lewis |  Dec 15, 1996

A CEO explains how any company's E-mail system is open to attack and how to protect yours from being hacked.  Read more