Guess we are all in agreement by now? As Tim Cook confirmed this week when launching the new iPad (not ‘iPad 3’ not ‘iPad HD’ not iPad Maxiumus Optimus Prime GT 7.3.1 X, just iPad, sounds simple, makes even more sense) we have clearly entered...
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Is it security or privacy or both that we should think about?
In recent posts I have been looking at the change that new technology is creating. From one direction we see how businesses want to use clouds, mobility, big data and social tools to create new capabilities externally to do business in new...
Read moreWhat have BPM, big data, social tools, and business models got in common?
I have had very interesting and broadly similar conversations on this topic that started with colleagues Rick Mans, our resident expert on social networks and tools, and Laurence Buchanan who has helped the rich and famous prosper with social CRM...
Read moreWarning – action required: key Internet changes taking place
Some say it's difficult to get excited about infrastructure. It's not a point of view that I recognize since infrastructure is really the foundation layer on which everything rests. If the network or Internet service goes down then you don't have to...
Read moreSo which tablet will your enterprise choose? The facts on 2011 will surprise you!
After the predictions for 2012 were posted came the reality of the 2011 market statistics. Maybe it’s not a surprise that 2011 was the year which the tablet really took off, but what is a surprise is the scale with which it took off. For me the...
Read moreOracle introduces game-changing integration; Open Group sees a sea change in the market
Three things this week have individually and collectively really made me think I was seeing something both interesting and important. Two of them are down to Oracle and the third was at the Open Group meeting inSan Francisco. Let’s start with a...
Read moreIs your company setting up in new countries? Then it’s a ‘green field’ opportunity!
It’s not often that there is a genuine ‘green field’ opportunity, a real chance to start from scratch without the handicap of legacy, both in systems and working practices. Oddly enough it’s happened for me several times recently and the...
Read moreA use case to illustrate how clouds, mobility and big data create new business capabilities
Did you read last week’s CTO Blog post which noted and linked to the views of Gartner, Forrester and IDC that we would see 2012 as the year in which a really recognizable shift would be underway to deliver new front office business capabilities and...
Read more2012: the year of unstructured technologies and market change
I was deliberately pretty conventional in my comments about technology for 2012, but after reading Gartner’s views that up to 35% of expenditure will move from IT by 2015, that 2012 will be the year of big data, and also that enterprises will...
Read moreMobility rather than mobile applications is making the running
The Christmas slowdown always gives me the opportunity to catch up on my reading list and I was surprised how much of it related to mobile technology. Perhaps I should explain that my systematic approach is to keep a running list of URLs with the...
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