So what exactly is everybody’s problem with Silo’s? Not a particularly warm-received phenomenon among IT specialists and consultants. Any junior writer of IT marketing material knows it: first you launch some platitudes about globalization,...
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People Awareness joins Content Awareness
Probably quite a few people were surprised at the announcement of LinkedIn forming a ‘content distribution and technology integration’ partnership with CNBC. Quite a lot of people have experienced LinkedIn as an early, and still leading, example...
Read moreLess Speed and more Objectivity on Google Chrome
There was a rush to get out comments on Google’s new browser Chrome when it was launched at the beginning of September, indeed I even had internal mail expressing surprise that I had not posted a piece on Chrome. Whilst in no way expressing...
Read moreStupid is as Stupid does? Is Google REALLY making us Stupid...
I came across a fascinating article that described the effect of the Internet (as personified by Google), which included some fairly chilling impacts of heavy internet usage - diminished ability to do deep reading (and by association, assimilation of...
Read moreOrganising for Value or for Events?
As we move steadily into Enterprise 2.0 there is beginning to be more and more material around on business architecture the noble art of understanding how a business is organised in terms of its functions and business flow. The first half of the...
Read more5 Minute Friday
I would like to offer a suggestion, which is to spend 5 minutes of your Friday watching this short film. While described as a film about what ‘Web 2.0’ is all about, it’s actually a film about how IT really works today. If you’ve ever...
Read morePile It Up: Google's audio indexing
One of the concepts we cover in our TechnoVision point of view is Googlification: thanks to powerful search technologies, we do not really have to structure our information any more. We just pile it up and search whenever we need something. It is...
Read moreSourcing Start-ups, and deciding on their potential
I now have a set of predictions about emerging technologies, web 2.0, etc from a wide range of sources. In the past month professional researchers, consulting firms, financial analysts, business schools, etc have all put out interesting documents....
Read moreIT Creates a Better Place
Every now and then we may have our doubts about the real meaning of technology. We even may be tempted to think that it is true: IT does not matter. But then, there are these little pearls that truly help us to understand the value of the technology...
Read moreA different premise for operation?
I was thinking about IT, and how the business community can find IT services relevant to their work but not find the IT department relevant, something which was shown in our most recent CIO survey. It occurred to me that perhaps we (the IT...
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