HBR - Harvard Business Review

A Harvard Business Review é uma revista editada pela muito afamada Harvard Business School, versando sobre vários temas das áreas de Gestão, Inovação, Liderança, Estratégia, entre outras.
Embora o estilo, os temas e os artigos sejam muito americanizados (e alguns dos assuntos passem a léguas das preocupações das PMEs portuguesas), é mesmo assim um bom investimento para uma melhor compreensão deste Mundo globalizado.

Harvard Business Review is the world's acknowledged authority on business leadership for managers responsible for success in the global economy. Now published monthly times a year, HBR delivers entrepreneurial ideas and insights that help managers strengthen their leadership power. Every issue shows how to use technology for competitive advantage. Guides strategic decision making in times of change. Profiles innovative leaders. Tells how to motivate today's workers. Shares the details of successful online alliances, and more. 

Projecto SWIFT (Secure Widespread Identities for Federated Telecommunications)

A Portugal Telecom e o IT Aveiro participam no projecto SWIFT que parece ser interessante, em especial a proposta para uma arquitectura orientada à identidade para serviços/dispositivos móveis - convém ler o paper "Identity Based Mobility".

This document explains how SWIFT proposes an identity oriented architecture as a plugin architecture from different mobility tools, creating a long sought out bridge between multiple mobility protocols, which can differ from domain to domain. As proposed by the SWIFT project, most of the information that flows throughout the network is identity bound. Therefore, the network is no longer device oriented, but rather identity driven. From network access to service consumption, identities are the endpoints of the communication.

As a result, it makes sense that mobility should also be addressed in the same way leading to new concepts, where identity based mobility is in fact the main driver for mobility, rather than classical device oriented mobility, often considered as the de facto standard for current networks. Positioning the identity as the “brain” for mobility, allows turning mobility protocols into what they were designed to do: serve as tools to aid the continuity of a session, while movement occurs.