By The use of the term ICT to represent the addition of ‘Communication’ capabilities to ‘IT’ seems to be slipping into articles and slides. Interestingly this also happened in the late eighties through early nineties as part of the adoption of...
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All posts for March 2008
MashUp Camp 6.0 - 17th to 20th March
Just had to mention this, and to point people towards the truly unique event that MashUp camp has become, plus the amount of high grade material it generates. There are several urls that will give you a load of information, comments, opinions and...
Read moreMaster Data – has it become a barrier?
6CommentsAn unusual blog this one as it's not based on, or linked to online sources, but instead comes about from a series of meetings, including my participation in a roundtable event with a number of companies on Master Data. I have been struck by the...
Read moreReinventing the IT function as a force for business innovation from Ivar Sinka, guest blogger
Here is a blog piece from Ivar Sinka, who is part of Capgemini's UK’s Business and Information Strategy practice. I hope it will trigger some interesting comments. In his blog piece on the 12th of March, Andy Mulholland raised the point that the...
Read moreSomething Substantial on Technology and Green IT
I guess like many people I am frustrated by the topic; on one hand there is no lack of outpourings on the topic, and on the other it's difficult to find well thought through and substantiated material. I was pleased to find a new report that actually...
Read moreWeb Science / IT as it really is?
I want to quote from the homepage of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), a joint endeavour of MIT and University of Southampton: ‘The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The Web is transforming society. In order to...
Read moreIT is essential; but the IT department may not be…
Actually the rest of the statement adds the phrase; to ‘Business Innovation’ which leads to the sad finding in the annual Capgemini CIO survey that IT departments find themselves in fifth place when it comes to innovation in the business. This...
Read moreCloud, Grid, Utility or Infostructure? How to be low cost, green and smart!
Bit of a disjointed series of connections; first I read how a single major trunk connection failure in India takes out a significant amount of the Indian Software Industries online capabilities until it's fixed. Then there has been another Blackberry...
Read moreTechnology Populism versus Worthy Development equals Twine
We all know the concept of ‘watching a train wreck in slow motion’, but I am not sure what the opposite effect is called, however this week I suspect that is what I have been watching. At one end of the track has been the publishing of a new...
Read moreGreat Expectations; but how effective?
I am not sure if it’s the time of the year for surveys, a sign of impending worry about 2008 as a potentially tough business year, or maybe a year of technology change, but there are a lot of surveys about. Gartner’s Massimiliano Claps has a...
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