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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Product pricing Cost Recovery or Value to the Buyer
This is a second part to my Blog on the difference between cost and value, in the first part I was arguing that in fact Business and IT has moved beyond arguments on ‘alignment’, and in fact is now totally converged. The converged situation presents the opportunity to rethink the entire design of processes in a radical manner. We can now abandon the current designs which were established in a paper age, and then computerised …
SI = System Integrator or Solution Implementer?
Just recently it has struck me how little pure technology has been raised to me as a topic at a meeting, email action item, even in client discussions. The most amazing part of all is the degree to which it doesn’t figure so much in discussions with the technology vendors themselves. It seems to me that there are two interesting possibilities to why this is happening and I would like to get some comments back …
The ‘second IT revolution’?
Well, I guess it’s that time of year for reflection and prediction – and while prediction can certainly be mildly dangerous it can of course also be a little fun to reflect back and see how one got on. And so onto the prediction! The term ‘second IT revolution’ has been used a few times already for sure – sometimes used to describe the ubiquitous nature of IT services, or to describe the move towards …
The difference between cost and value
If there is one question that has been common throughout my time in computing it’s been whether or not computers, or more recently IT, do add value to a Business. Nicolas Carr has been the most incendiary contributor to the debate some years back and today still an active contributor. However in my usual way I want to look at this topic in a different way, questioning whether we have reached a point in the …
A Practical Example of Applying ‘Communities’
I got an interesting opportunity to apply the thinking on creating and using communities that I and my colleagues have been developing. Quick recap on previous blogs on the topic; two parallel streams of activity are visible: 1) Social Networks 2) the notion of everyone and everything being available in a connected infinite Mesh spanning companies, countries etc. as opposed to the internal ‘Matrix’ model of a finite number of point to point links. My …
New technology solves the Green issue – ‘Printing’
I was indicating that I was rather disappointed not have a good technology topic for a while, and would you believe it but they both cover the topic of printing, a good old fashioned technology that was supposed to die as the ‘paperless office’ took over. Now, Green IT has really put this back on the table again as a ‘sexy’ topic, and printers everywhere sport labels asking if its really necessary to print this …
Outsourcing the intranet
I’ve been thinking for some time that a logical conclusion to the plethora of free (or at least cheap) social web applications will be companies simply outsourcing their intranets. Delivering a few portlets (or Open Social applications) into iGoogle or Facebook would seem to solve the problem of connecting your employees with the business, and has the additional benefit of helping employees connect with other employees. However, I was still surprised when I woke this …
Strategy and differentiation
A lot of us place a great deal of hope in enterprise applications. After all, applications have been a great source of differentiation in the past. In a world where globalisation has firmly taken hold and we’re all under intense cost pressure, everyone is searching for that edge that will push up margins or grab a little more of the market. The poster child for this is Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart made a massive investment in a …
HP Software Universe and a Business issue
Another industry event; this time its HP Software Universe in Barcelona, and again it’s bigger with more attendees, (around 4000 people), than in previous years. This fits a pattern I have seen over the second half of this year with industry events getting better attended again after a period when interest and attendees had declined. It seems that people are realising that there is a sea change in technologies and their use in business going …
