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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Chefs or Cook Books? Contacts or Content?
The CEO’s vision is for us to be ‘the leaders in knowledge applied to xxxxx engineering’ was the opening statement at the off-site meeting of a world renowned engineering company who is the name in their industry sector. As the day progressed it became clear that even they were feeling the competitive pressures of cheaper manufacturers, commoditisation of engineering generally, and all the other recognisable issues of most businesses today.
Thoughts on innovation. Straight from Siberia.
What were they thinking, the strategists from Wal-Mart, Intel and British Petroleum when they were putting together their tiny little plan for a new electronic health records system? Or let’s rephrase this: how are innovations created in the first place? A relevant question, especially on the threshold of a new year in which – if we read the ostentatious signs right – innovation tops the agenda of many business strategies again. A good subject to …
Green Computing – more to it than you think!
I found myself on a Panel discussing ‘green computing’; actually it was part of the Gartner Data Centre event in London as opposed to being a particular decision by me to get involved in Green Computing. I guess that’s a pretty recognisable position for many of us, we know it’s something we should be taking more notice of, but lack the time to get involved enough. So what did I learn and what makes me …
Innovation happens elsewhere. Doctor’s prescription.
I truly like to watch it: companies that during the course of the years transform into incarnations that just do not resemble the original any longer. Often, it is a sign of a strong urge to innovate. Also, it can be the demonstration of a grinding lack of realism or simply a proof of an inflated ego. Or all of that. Either way, there’s always something exciting happening near companies that are reinventing themselves.
Who creates, who uses, and who supports?
If this doesn’t produce some posts, nothing will!! JP Rangaswami, the former head of alternative market models, and before that the former CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort, and someone whose work in using technology well I have followed, and admired, has just been quoted as saying: ‘Over time the role of the IT professional will be to help clients (sic) to do things for themselves, instead of taking something away and fixing it’. This both intrigues …
Trust and Web 2.0 Business Models
This blog is in some senses a continuation of my thinking through what I can see happening in the different ways that individuals are behaving online in Web 2.0, and the characteristics of those successful Web 2.0 businesses. To me a Web 2.0 business is characterised by its use of ‘awareness’, see the previous two blog entries, from an online business which is recognisable by having the usual business model transferred online. There is a …
