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Monthly Archives: February 2007
CIO = Chief Infrastructure Officer or Chief Innovation Officer?
The poor CIO, the role is perhaps around ten years old, at one time was discussed as a role that ought to lead to being seen as a board level executive and now? The discussion on what the role the CIO has to play, and even sometimes does the CIO have a role at all, is everywhere. Seems the CIOs themselves are not too convinced of their future either as late last year a survey …
What’s Acceptable Risk in the MashUp World?
I had an experience many of us encounter last week – the hard drive on my laptop failed. Now, as a CTO who understands how IT works, of course I had all my data backed up and in any event I am completely immersed in leveraging the Web model and so my personal local data storage is frankly an irrelevance. And of course, this is my alter-ego talking, not the real me who is now …
Eyes of the Crowd
What exactly can be achieved through the unbridled power of crowdsourcing? A nice place to find out is the article on this concept on Wikipedia, which – by the way – itself is created through a mild form of crowdsourcing (these are the moments that you feel that good old, recursive programmers heartbeat again). Luckily enough, Wikipedia points us rigidly to potential terminology errors: crowdsourcing is definitely not the same as open source development and …
Commoditising the IT industry through case studies
‘Publishing ‘case studies’ do the IT industry no favours’ was the provocative reply when I suggested providing a case study to a prospective client. My immediate reaction was one of wondering whether I had heard his reply correctly as, with the rest of the IT industry I believed that by describing case studies we were helping clients to understand complex issues. As all IT suppliers spend a great deal of effort, to say nothing of …
Ubiquitous IT can mean Margin and Revenue growth
There is a UK radio programme that describes itself as ‘the antidote to panel shows’, those weary radio programmes where a panel of experts debate the answers to complex questions and whose answers seldom, if ever, really provide a new light on the question. The antidote programme called ‘Any Answers?’, mocks this approach by light heartedly taking a completely different view of any topic than the conventional one. We have had Nicholas Carr asked ‘Does …
77 Million Innovations
I have to confess I am old enough to vividly remember how Roxy Music made its entry into the pop music scene. It must have been early in the seventies, the steam machine had just been invented and most homes were still lighted by candles. Ceramics teacher Brian Ferry thought the moment was right to create an entirely new band, as an eclectic mix of post-modern noise, absurd and yet semi-literary lyrics, powerhouse glam rock …
MashUps rapidly are becoming a commodity!
Remarkable isn’t it? We are now approaching a time when a new technology has become a commodity, and I will define what I mean by that term, even before a fair selection of the IT profession have even heard of it, let alone used it! The gap between the existing implantations, and methods, of what I will call corporate IT, requiring the full time attention of IT professionals and the ‘open’ for anyone to use …
