In my last Monday post I brought up the topic of Business Technology, BT, as the name for the new generation of web based technology, as opposed to IT and PC based technology, ending by posting the question. ‘What is the Business Architecture that...
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Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: Is U.S. innovation headed offshore? [Business Week] Apparently not, even though...
Read moreSocio-Technical Systems not IT Systems (‘The Dreyfus Moment’)
I’ve been intending to post on Socio-Technical Systems for a little while now, and Andy’s recent post on Business Technology has provided the prefect timing. Since a post I made in February on how the IT industry might have inadvertently...
Read moreBusiness Technology not Information Technology
Time to be either controversial or helpful in identifying what is the real issue in the use of technology for business as we look ahead. It’s pretty clear too that from CEOs, to CIOs; from CTOs to CFOs; to say nothing of users and consumers, we are...
Read moreExciting IT? Come to the Dark Side.
I am about to leave for holidays. And so are probably a few more of you. Thought it would be nice to leave you with a couple of ideas and concepts. Just to keep you focused among all the distraction of doing nothing and enjoying the great outdoors. I...
Read moreASAP is dead! Long live ASAP!
My colleague Mendel Koerts has been publishing guest blog-items on SAP BMP / eSOA and the SAP TechEd before and it is with great pleasure that I give him the stage again. Yep, you guessed it, it's about SAP. But not the SAP as we know it. I happen to...
Read moreNew Web 2.0 services; Data Portability
Making Data Portability suck less; Not the phrase I would have used to headline my web site but for GNIP, (apparently pronounced guh-nip), that’s what they choose to describe their mission. GNIP is a start-up that obeys the increasingly popular...
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Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. The Customer is the Company [Inc.com] Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month — with...
Read moreMicrosoft is cool – if you are a teenager (or a home user)!
I read this really rather tough appraisal of Microsoft by one of the technology papers the other day, and of course it was focussed on Microsoft as a supplier of technology for the enterprise. Not so strange as that is the way most people in our line...
Read moreFeatures Overrated
Nah, let’s not produce yet another obvious comment on the queues of people, anxiously waiting to buy - and maybe, just maybe even activate - their new iPhone 3G. After all, this is world news that nobody can escape from, easily beating missile...
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