By C. Bate
Trust has been a word used quite a lot recently. The lack of trust in credit ratings. The lack of trust between banks. The need to rebuild trust in the global financial system. Stephen M. R. Covey has recently written a highly regarded book all about...
Read moreIn the last few weeks on my usual rounds of meeting clients I have been expecting that the topic of the credit crunch would be a major item in each discussion. Amazingly not so, other then for some personal chat about the world going mad. Why?...
Read moreIn the past couple of years I have read much more widely than ever before as I have tried to understand Business Technology, the bringing together of technology and business into a single capability as opposed to IT which is a separate operation that...
Read moreI frequently surprise people when in response to an email I pick up the telephone and give them a call, as I usually point out if the phone had been invented after email then it would have been seen as a breakthrough in the ability to collaborate....
Read moreIt’s normally tough to get sponsorship for events, and even tougher to get a full programme of speakers and topics agreed, so imagine my surprise to find not just one, but two events coming up with full programmes containing all the mainstream...
Read moreGuess many of you followed the wild adventures of Lee Provoost in semi-realtime mashed-up mode, twittering and videotaping his way through the SAP TechEd 2008 in Berlin (and many other related and unrelated subjects for that matter). Here is another...
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By C. Bate
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s bestselling ‘The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable’ has to be one of the most timely published books ever – and as a taster if you haven’t read it I’d suggest this excellent interview with the author...
Read moreIn a previous post, Something Substantial on Technology and Green IT, I wrote about the difficulties we face as an industry in putting together well thought-out recommendations about how to raise ‘green’ higher on the IT agenda. IT tends to...
Read moreLet’s start in a conventional manner with the announcement that IBM have just launched a new social networking community all about planning, using and deploying SOA, not so surprising as this is the new ‘must have’. Its goal is to encourage all...
Read moreI am probably wrong, but somehow I have this feeling of crisis hanging in the air. Do not ask me how I know, it is just this very well-developed sensitivity for what is happening in the market. On top of that, it is autumn in the part of the world I...
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