This is the post I never considered I’d be writing when back in 2006 Ron Tolido and I started the CTO blog. Now more than 300 posts later, and with the help of great support from those who have been kind enough to read and comment, I am writing my...
Read moreHas BPM Reached a Tipping Point?This statement is one of the interesting findings of a survey of over 1000 executives carried out by UK-based research firm FreshMinds on behalf of my colleagues in Capgemini Business Process Management. You can read...
Read moreAs an old guy, I often look at blogs and tweets with perhaps the wrong mindset, so here is a question for those who have been good enough to take the time to read my posts.Should I blog my personal opinions, which might be unsubstantiated by facts....
Read more"May you live in interesting times” is reputedly an ancient Chinese curse suggesting that the stress of chaos and change does not make for a good life."There must be more than a few IT colleagues who feel they are indeed living in...
Read moreOkay, it’s a silly question. But after years of Relational Databases, RDMS (and frankly with database skills and operation being one of the most core and central planks of the IT department) we suddenly have a rash of announcements. This can only...
Read moreIs the industry hyping ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) as the next big thing? I don’t think so. It’s much more a forced response to users driving the issue by deciding to use their own devices. AND this is the big point: it’s the cloud that...
Read moreThe one common feature that unites the various reported trends is that they all represent some form of de-centralization, and since the core reason for adopting the current Enterprise IT model was to centralize, this is a challenging moment.PCs as...
Read moreI got emailed a question asking if I could blog on the more mundane but very important topic of what an average IT shop should do today around the ‘evolution’ of its existing IT. The challenge of new technology and the disruptive change it...
Read moreWhen asked to give a talk and struggling to think of a topic, the general rule at the moment is you can’t go wrong if you talk about Business Intelligence. So I make no apologies about returning to the topic since it is rapidly expanding in...
Read moreThis rather arresting phrase is actually a direct quote from Whitfield Diffie’s presentation, one of the security industry’s best known veterans at the annual RSA Security event.Security is a difficult topic at the best of times and right now...
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