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A 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 that these would not necessarily be under the CIO or IT? The point being made was that these new business requirements and enabling technologies are not part of the IT …
2012: 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 struggle with these topics in 2012, I think I can afford to provide some of my own personal views. There is a big point in the Gartner predictions relating to the topic …
Mobility 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 title of the piece in topic groups. And heading the mobility list was the promising-sounding online Harvard Business Review article ‘Building a Mobile App Is Not a MobileStrategy’. I expected …
Ten Game-Changing Technology Shifts for 2012
I expect you will have read Ron Tolido’s post on seven very specific IT areas to watch in 2012 . Well, there are some things which are traditional and one of them in this industry is to start the new year with a set of predictions about which new technologies will be important in the year ahead. Well here are my thoughts on the topic that takes us beyond the current three terms that are …
7 Very Specific Enterprise IT Areas to Watch in 2012
You didn’t think we would let you go into the New Year without at least one top 7 list from our side, now would you? After all, it may be a time of economic pressure in some parts of the world, only very rarely we are on the threshold of exciting, promising developments in Enterprise IT like we are now. So without further ado – before they already start celebrating in New Zealand – …
Schizophrenic Tester
Ah yes, testers and me. We go back a long, long time. It’s much like love, really. We had our high a few years ago, when I wrote an article series for an IT magazine. In this series I used practical observations and some basic anthropology to describe the psychological mind set of various practitioners in IT. Experiencing many different IT organizations across the world, I had noticed that there is a strong correlation between …
Managing the business of IT, and the challenge of more ‘value’!
Launched back in the good times of the summer of 2009 with the mission of helping organizations manage the business value of IT, with a fanfare of videos from several CIOs and the support of Intel, the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) received a somewhat cool reception on the grounds of ‘yet another framework’. I got interested when I read an article a year later on how early adopters were talking about savings of up …
HP changes the ‘I’ for Information and the ‘T’ for Technology in IT
I attended HP Discover in Vienna with some sense of wondering what it might bring. It turned out to be the old HP back, but with a clearer understanding of their core strengths and a new energy and focus on how they are delivering them. As with all such events there was a number of bloggers present providing good coverage of the event overall including an official HP blog. But that’s enough publicity for the …
Another 11.2 million iPads and 1.2 million Android tablets ship this quarter to join those already in your, and everyone else’s, enterprise so you need to do something!
Every now and then I get really excited about a newly released or upgraded product. I must confess it doesn’t happen that often, but what does it for me is when I see something that I know is the missing piece in a particular jigsaw. And that jigsaw is connected to the title of this blog. My jigsaws, and their pictures, are almost always user or business solution oriented, you might say down the stack, …
