One of the consistently hot topics across the CTO community in Capgemini is the readiness of enterprise-grade, cloud-based applications. As a service integrator and orchestrator continually innovating services, we need to assess what...
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Enterprise Karmic Koala
When on holidays, I try to be unaware of technology as much as possible (people that happen to know my e-mail out-of-office messages will recognise this). Only natural. But not as easy as it seems. Two years ago, when we drove back through the French...
Read moreThe true cost of eMail, and saving through Collaboration
I 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 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 moreTransations and Interactions
I have been having an interesting dialogue with an ex colleague York whose own blog is well worth a read. The particular dialogue has been around what is essentially the changing, and expanded environment in which we are all increasingly working....
Read moreMy Laptop, Your Laptop
It’s something I particularly like to do when speaking at Open Source conferences, where the sentiments every now and then just tend a bit too much towards the politically correct. Open Source is Free, Green, Saving the World and – most...
Read moreThe Semantic Web may be becoming more likely with RDF
In recent posts I have touched on the challenges of too much content, too little context, together with the further challenge of the sheer number and types of devices that will create and use data ...
Read moreSector as a Service with Utilities versus Online Products
I have been struck recently by how many times I have been in conversations about what I think I can best describe as the ‘removal of value’ from products, or at least the failure to create a sustainable business proposition. Most alarmingly most...
Read moreDebunking the Myths of Long Tail and so much more!
The whole wisdom of the crowd’s concept I buy into, but with one very important proviso; I personally believe you can only trust the result when it has been tested and refined by debate. Not quite sure who said this profound point but the best one...
Read moreDAVOS and the power of collaborative innovation
I was surprised, gladdened, and then worried to find that the theme for the most powerful people in the world when they gather in the resort of DAVOS this year is ‘the power of collaborative innovation’. Looking at this issue from a technology...
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