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One of the challenges that technology and business professionals have in today’s over-whelming information environment is making sense of the jumble of disciplines they are required to know to do their jobs well. I am an information security professional; the field of security is so broad that I needed a structure to manage the information I require on a regular basis. A few years ago, I began to rely on an open source mind-mapping tool called Freemind. I built a mindmap for the field of Information Security. The link below makes this mindmap available for your use on the web. I hope you find it a helpful device as you think about securing your business. I will continue to improve this mindmap so check back often. Be sure to click around there is a lot of information in this mindmap. Interactive Information Security Mindmap

Recently Nick Donofrio, IBM’s Executive Vice President Innovation & Technology, was quoted stating, “If you're looking for the next big thing, stop looking. There's no such thing as the next big thing.” This seems to imply that innovation is dead. I disagree. I think that innovation is now assumed. The rate of change has accelerated so fast that you have to work on the edge of continual change in order to succeed. This makes execution the new innovation. Those companies that can aggressively and effectively get things done will succeed in the next cycle of business and technology. They may well get out in front of the technology wave we are riding and actually innovate by accident. This is exactly what happened with the development of the iPod by Apple. Apple now has a larger market capitalization than IBM.