Predictions are easy to make, I can boldly predict that in 2013 we will discover the secret to cold fusion... if I'm wrong I can make the same prediction next year, and every year until we crack it. Thus on the time I'm right I can exclaim 'I told...
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Will Big Data drive Big Cartels?
By Steve Jones
One of the challenges of the collapse of 2008 was lots of banking models being applied incorrectly (or being incorrect) and which in a classic case of 'group think' all came up with the wrong answer. This is in a market where they are directly...
Read moreBPR 2.0 - how MDM gives agility to BPM
By Steve Jones
Working which Nicholas Kitson I've just had a new white paper published around how BPM and MDM work together to deliver on the real vision of BPR, namely the ability for a business to be horizontally consistent and efficient while retaining local...
Read moreBig Data is over the hype - can we get on with real work now?
Well that was fast, on the 7th of January I talk about killing the big data hype and then 15 days later over at Gartner one of their analysts, Svetlana Sicular, has said that Big data is over the hype curve. Cause and effect? Probably not as if...
Read moreThe problem of Data Gravity - why tactical solutions never go away
By Steve Jones
Information is Knowledge, Knowledge is power, power is energy over time, energy is mass times the speed of light squared... if something has mass then it has gravity therefore information has gravity...The odd piece about this clearly false statement...
Read moreHow to start with Big Data?
By Steve Jones
When looking at Big Data the first question is always 'where do I start?' for software vendors the answer to a company is simple 'by buying software', but then the answer from software vendors to any question is 'by buying software'. The real...
Read moreChanging IT - moving from 'T' to 'I'
By Steve Jones
Information Technology has been a very mis-named area for many years. When you look at IT spend and investment historically its been about two things - Technology and Technologies that provide Business Processes. The concept of Information has been a...
Read moreKilling Big Data hype - talk about the Big Questions and Big Complexities
By Steve Jones
Tech Crunch have decided that we need to kill Big Data mainly because the hype is getting silly. Over the last few years every startup and established software vendor threw a 'social' sticker onto their products and as Facebook bombed and others...
Read moreAre Microsoft the next big consumerisers of Enterprise IT?
By Steve Jones
Back in 2007 I wrote a series of papers on how Shadow IT, that was IT that was within the business, was one of the biggest trends facing IT. 'Out of Darkness Cometh Light' was about how Mashup developed applications on a managed infrastructure...
Read moreWhat is a Standard? What is a Policy?
By Steve Jones
Sometimes people get confused by terms and recently I've come across a bit of confusion as to the difference between a standard and a policy and critically which comes first. So this is an attempt to give a clear and simple definition of the two...
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