I wanted to develop two previous Blog pieces and tie them together, as in my mind; (at least!), thanks to discussions with others my thoughts are becoming clearer. The first piece was an introduction to the conceptual idea of Mesh Working; and if you...
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To the Centre of the Enterprise and now back out again!
I seem to remember that the academics in the early 90s were writing fascinating papers on the need to rethink the alignment of resources through out the enterprise by using the new wonder technology of Client-Server which of course led to a whole...
Read moreOracle OpenWorld staged the Enterprise 2.0 Community debate
I don’t normally make a practice of commenting directly on individual vendors, after all they have pretty good marketing to make their points, but in this case the positioning and products created some great conversations and debates with other...
Read moreMesh Working; so how do we ‘manage’ it?
So, an intriguing post by Andy and to my mind a useful distinction has been born to help understand the differences between matrix working and mesh working. It inspired me to this short post back on a possible 'how' that we're seeing some in industry...
Read moreMesh Working rather than Matrix Working
This is going to be a rather longer, and more detailed, piece than I normally post, but it’s a big ‘thought’, and I am hoping for a lot of feedback to help piece together what I think I am beginning to see as the core new values in how working...
Read moreGoogle Poetry
In a moment of beautiful peaceful quiet Saturday morning to the experience enjoyable with the latest shooting performance google We write chess programs that can beat even the best Master. We land computer-guided vehicles on Mars, and usually it...
Read moreDon't Merge, Collaborate?
I was just talking to Financial Times journalist Ross Tieman - who is writing an article on partnerships and collaboration between IT companies – and we came back to the old conclusion that there are many examples in biology of successful splitting...
Read moreOpen Social – the missing link for Web 2.0 users and the Enterprise?
The last two weeks have been hectic, Norway, Netherlands, USA, and UK, all with multiple meetings with CIOs, some private sector, some public sector and some military. That’s a pretty broad sample and all have the same key issue; their users are...
Read moreThe real message is People centricity and not Phones!
I really couldn’t let this week pass without commenting on the bunch of announcements from the telecom and phone sector. The iPhone rolls out in the UK of course, but that’s old news, and been covered well enough already. The news that did...
Read moreHalf Baked or Mashed?
This was a must read title of a piece in Information Week that gave a considered view of the wisdom of mixing Enterprise IT and the Internet. It’s a longish piece totalling seven pages, but well worth reading, and contains several polls of...
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