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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Un-Babel
I am not much of a Bible expert, but I do know it were the descendants of Noah (the guy who did all the difficult things with shipping animals, really the very first logistics consultant) that founded the city of Babel on the plain of Shinar. There, guided and united by their leader Nimrod, they built a tower that was destined to reach the heavens. This was apparently not in the Divine Master Plan and …
Hang out at the best events this autumn
You know the problem, back from the summer break, and now the invitations to the various trade shows are rolling in, too many of them to go to all of them, but must get some feel for what is happening… Used to be reasonably easy when there were a handful of well known mainstream shows, and maybe a couple of major vendor events. Now there are new events appearing, and disappearing, as fast as products …
SaaR or Software as a Revolution
Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com states that he has the intention to ‘change the Software industry’, and many would agree he has made an interesting start in the Customer Relationship Management, or CRM, sector. However what caught my eye was the relatively low key announcement of the new capability that allows Salesforce.com customers to develop their own applications on the Salesforce.com servers, using the Salesforce.com Apex Platform toolset. After completion and I assume testing, …
White Wire Strategy
Chris Anderson posted a neat blog recently called ‘the black wire and the white wire’. The black wire connects Chris to the corporate network, which is connected to the Internet. The white wire is a standard consumer connection to the Internet. The black wire constrains the information and services Chris has access too. The white wire doesn’t. It seems to be faster too. To my mind this thought provoking post, and the associated comments, ultimately …
Open Source Consultancy – is it possible?
It is fair to say that Open Source has had a major impact on the software industry. If I attempt to take a balanced view then I would say that different circumstances in terms of what we want to use software for, has also played a major part, and has led us to have at least five recognisably different models; Software as a Service or SaaS; Application Service Provider, ASP; Business Process Outsourcing, BPO; Application …
iPodification leads to Nothing
I have always argued that Steve Jobs should never touch that iPod Scroll Wheel. Simple things should stay simple. But who am I to argue when he continues his fascinating ‘delete the button’ act with the new iPod Touch: essentially an iPod (and Wifi enabled Internet device, really) with just a touch-sensitive screen to control it? It’s yet another compelling demonstration of the ongoing iPodification of computers: we start to get used to ‘non computer-like’ …
Sandy
Many of us believe we ain’t seen nothing yet in terms of the usefulness of the Web. Or perhaps from the other perspective, many see massive political, business and societal risk in the evolution of the Web. But with thanks to Peter Evans-Greenwood for sharing with me a fascinating link over the weekend, perhaps we are starting to see how this usefulness will manifest itself – and how the inherent risks can be managed. The …
From Benchmark to Mashmark
The following is a guest post from a good colleague and friend Hans van Grieken who has often been a thought leader. It’s a novel idea and a good one building on the wisdom of the crowds. I am sure it will promote some good posts ! Andy A personal call to enrich some of our sector specific market Metrics For decades the Consulting Industry has made huge sums of money by measuring their client’s …
Microsoft Office and Google Apps: Internal or External?
The press loves to position this as a fight between two giants in the market, see Business Week article ‘Apps versus Office – Google ups the Ante’. Next there was the report in IT Week around Microsoft about to start trialling a free version of Office paid for by it showing adverts. It may be good press in terms of stirring up interest, but I am not at all sure it’s the right argument in …
