While writing this blog, I am at 11 km up in the air, travelling at 816 km/h. Sitting in a comfortable seat and realising I am surrounded bij ICT systems I am glad none of them offer me connectivity to the world below that is passing by on the...
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All posts for April 2012
Predictive Analytics
By maupadhy
Predictive analytics is all over the news nowadays. It is touted as the new solution to all of the problems facing the business world! Suddenly, anybody who is not talking about it feels they are being left far behind in the race. And hence a spurt...
Read moreCase as a Service
There is no doubt that the market is seeing great demand from customers to change the way they procure their IT, not least in the move to the ‘as a Service’ model. There are many different terms applied to the aaS model including...
Read moreThree Ways to Check the Success of my BPM Initiative - Measure, Measure and Measure!
One thing which never ceases to surprise me is how little thought is paid by organizations to defining the metrics/Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by which they will define the success of a BPM initiative. Even when metrics are defined, and...
Read moreMastering Clarity. Why your MDM pitch deck should have 3 points
At the IRM MDM Summit this week there is one element that is coming up multiple times, sometimes because people have got it right and other times because people have got it wrong. There is a wonderful phrase 'Brevity is Wit' and of course the famous...
Read moreHolding the Candlelight Vigil for Traditional Enterprise Architecture and Traditional IT
The Strategic Alignment of Business and IT has been the "grail quest" of the Information Technology world (and every CIO) in the 20th century. One of the paths the IT visionary folks took on that quest was the path of EA, but unfortunately the...
Read moreHow to kill your estimates
It must have been about twenty five years ago. I was working for a large international consultancy firm. One of the reliable ones. The ones that you would think that had everything worked out. But I guess this was merely the product of my...
Read moreTransition to Agile, how does it work? (Part 1)
By everkaik
I just started as an Agile coach for a big player in the financial market in the Netherlands. This company chose 2 years ago for a transition to Agile for all of their ICT projects and employees (app. 800) within the ICT-department. So I stepped in...
Read moreSupercomputers and the Future
By Jude Umeh
Wednesday the 18th of April marked 100 days to the greatest show on earth, along with the promise of even more superlatives, as a direct consequence of the Olympic motto: “Faster, Higher, Stronger”. It certainly made an auspicious date for an...
Read moreWhy SAP HANA is a breakthrough technology
I have been working on SAP HANA for long time. First call with SAP’s R&D was in 2010, when HANA was yet to be named and they were still calling it Hasso DB (for Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP). Now I come to think of it, even if...
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