This is a second part to my Blog on the difference between cost and value, in the first part I was arguing that in fact Business and IT has moved beyond arguments on ‘alignment’, and in fact is now totally converged. The converged situation...
Read moreJust recently it has struck me how little pure technology has been raised to me as a topic at a meeting, email action item, even in client discussions. The most amazing part of all is the degree to which it doesn’t figure so much in discussions...
Read moreWell, I guess it’s that time of year for reflection and prediction – and while prediction can certainly be mildly dangerous it can of course also be a little fun to reflect back and see how one got on. And so onto the prediction! The term...
Read moreIf there is one question that has been common throughout my time in computing it’s been whether or not computers, or more recently IT, do add value to a Business. Nicolas Carr has been the most incendiary contributor to the debate some years back...
Read moreI got an interesting opportunity to apply the thinking on creating and using communities that I and my colleagues have been developing. Quick recap on previous blogs on the topic; two parallel streams of activity are visible: 1) Social Networks 2)...
Read moreI was indicating that I was rather disappointed not have a good technology topic for a while, and would you believe it but they both cover the topic of printing, a good old fashioned technology that was supposed to die as the ‘paperless office’...
Read moreI’ve been thinking for some time that a logical conclusion to the plethora of free (or at least cheap) social web applications will be companies simply outsourcing their intranets. Delivering a few portlets (or Open Social applications) into...
Read moreA lot of us place a great deal of hope in enterprise applications. After all, applications have been a great source of differentiation in the past. In a world where globalisation has firmly taken hold and we're all under intense cost pressure,...
Read moreAnother industry event; this time its HP Software Universe in Barcelona, and again it’s bigger with more attendees, (around 4000 people), than in previous years. This fits a pattern I have seen over the second half of this year with industry events...
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