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Monthly Archives: November 2007
People;- Profiles, Communities and Mesh Working
I wanted to develop two previous Blog pieces and tie them together, as in my mind; (at least!), thanks to discussions with others my thoughts are becoming clearer. The first piece was an introduction to the conceptual idea of Mesh Working; and if you want to know why I used this term see Wikipedia on Mesh Networking. My view was that, unlike the closed point to point matrix working environment that the PC Network had …
To the Centre of the Enterprise and now back out again!
I seem to remember that the academics in the early 90s were writing fascinating papers on the need to rethink the alignment of resources through out the enterprise by using the new wonder technology of Client-Server which of course led to a whole round of investments in ERP systems. Now there is a whole new round of papers saying we got it wrong, this has not added value etc., and not surprisingly, there is Nicolas …
Oracle OpenWorld staged the Enterprise 2.0 Community debate
I don’t normally make a practice of commenting directly on individual vendors, after all they have pretty good marketing to make their points, but in this case the positioning and products created some great conversations and debates with other attendees. You can find out more about the actual products from Oracle sources; this blog is about a shift into how Oracle sees combining Web 2.0 into its Enterprise software to create an “Enterprise 2.0” environment, …
Mesh Working; so how do we ‘manage’ it?
So, an intriguing post by Andy and to my mind a useful distinction has been born to help understand the differences between matrix working and mesh working. It inspired me to this short post back on a possible ‘how’ that we’re seeing some in industry start to adopt. So, just how can a business create the conditions to result in the best ‘organisation of the Mesh’ to deliver a given outcome? What things does a …
Mesh Working rather than Matrix Working
This is going to be a rather longer, and more detailed, piece than I normally post, but it’s a big ‘thought’, and I am hoping for a lot of feedback to help piece together what I think I am beginning to see as the core new values in how working practice is changed by Web 2.0. By the way it’s probably controversial, but then that is a big part of what makes working in a …
Google Poetry
In a moment of beautiful peaceful quiet Saturday morning to the experience enjoyable with the latest shooting performance google We write chess programs that can beat even the best Master. We land computer-guided vehicles on Mars, and usually it works. We develop new games that contain an amazing level of sophistication and detail. How reassuring that we still can’t construct software that truly understands human language and is able to translate effectively from one language …
Don’t Merge, Collaborate?
I was just talking to Financial Times journalist Ross Tieman – who is writing an article on partnerships and collaboration between IT companies – and we came back to the old conclusion that there are many examples in biology of successful splitting strategies (cell multiplication to begin with, mammals giving birth, reproduction strategies of plants and many other organisms, rabbit and ant colonies that expand through new subsidiaries, etc.) but only very few of merging …
Open Social – the missing link for Web 2.0 users and the Enterprise?
The last two weeks have been hectic, Norway, Netherlands, USA, and UK, all with multiple meetings with CIOs, some private sector, some public sector and some military. That’s a pretty broad sample and all have the same key issue; their users are deploying Web 2.0 type technologies and deciding to work differently. In some cases, public or financial sectors, it adds the question of who is the user as increasingly their customers, or citizens, are …
The real message is People centricity and not Phones!
I really couldn’t let this week pass without commenting on the bunch of announcements from the telecom and phone sector. The iPhone rolls out in the UK of course, but that’s old news, and been covered well enough already. The news that did interested me is the Google Android approach to the market, and the Nokia approach with its Ovi Portal for Internet based services. However I want to comment on these announcements in what …
Half Baked or Mashed?
This was a must read title of a piece in Information Week that gave a considered view of the wisdom of mixing Enterprise IT and the Internet. It’s a longish piece totalling seven pages, but well worth reading, and contains several polls of Information Week readers to provide breakdowns on what is happening. It’s the interpretation of these polls that I want to draw attention to as I am not sure that I agree with …
