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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Imagination in the use of Web 2.0 thrives!
I have just been invited by two ‘friends’, meaning good colleagues within the IT industry with whom I like to interact and exchange opinions, to join Dopplr which is a new and imaginative way to solve an interesting issue for people like me who travel widely and often. Too often I discover that I was in the right place at the right time to meet one of my Web 2.0 social ‘friends’ some time afterwards …
Bill Gates and the Second Digital Decade
Amazing to try to visualise events like Consumer Electronics Show, CES, without Bill Gates doing the keynote, yet as was widely billed his presentation this year was his last as a Microsoft employee. It was interesting to hear him say that as we enter the second decade of digital use the focus shifts from device convergence to becoming people centric (can you have people and machine convergence?). Whilst this is not exactly new, see my …
DAVOS and the power of collaborative innovation
I was surprised, gladdened, and then worried to find that the theme for the most powerful people in the world when they gather in the resort of DAVOS this year is ‘the power of collaborative innovation’. Looking at this issue from a technology standpoint, it’s great to see that world leaders have noticed the revolution in capability with the way people at large have grasped the use of web 2.0 technology, but are these great …
Security Hangman
In the past week, in which I met several of our clients that are planning for this year, I only found more confirmation for the proposition in my previous blog item. Although CIO’s have been struggling for years with immovable, petrified IT households, many now seem to be ready to make a breakthrough. Using crisis as a welcome burning platform, they simplify and open up their systems. That way, they create the headroom for innovation …
Telcoms new competition; Technology, Services & Innovation!
Two events within 24 hours of each other triggered this blog post. The first was a discussion with some colleagues about the growth of a whole new segment in the telecom mobility market worth in the UK alone around $1.5 billion in 2007; and the second was the arrival by email of the Ovum ‘Straight Talk’ opinion piece that they send out monthly. The opening article was entitled; ‘Fear and Self Loathing in Telecoms’ and …
Crisis? Hurray, Crisis!
Think about it: many spiritual, self-help, motivational gurus first have been through a period of devastating crisis before becoming the source of all energy and light. Whether you are Louise Hay, Tony Robbins, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, Rhonda Byrne, or (forgive me) even Buddha, apparently you have to face your deepest moments of agony and depression first and only then you may break on through to the other side. No renewal without a proper catharsis …
Consumer Electronic Show – its where business is going!
It’s bigger and more frenetic than ever, and somehow it seems very suitable that Bill Gates gave his last ever keynote as the chairman of Microsoft at Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. I guess Microsoft can probably be picked out as the company that made computing and / or IT most usable by the masses, and right now is doing so much more than a lot of IT folks realise to compete again with a …
Web 2.0 meets AI and the “Law of Diminishing Returns” from Sam Ceccola
The following is a guest post from a good colleague and friend Sam Ceccola, who is effectively the CTO for the USA. I am sure it will promote some good posts ! Andy I have been reflecting over Christmas on my experiences in the IT community serving clients that are constantly pushing the envelope through the use of computer systems to gain intelligence in ways that will really drive a business forward. These clients range …
Lost in Translation
The ‘business/IT divide’ appears to be bigger than ever at the very time when business technology is converging and everyone and everything is becoming connected. So it is little wonder we have so much real-world debate on new business technology models and how business can embrace them! At the very time when we are seeing the exponential rise of communities of interaction, mesh working, information centricity and co-value creation/value networks as new cornerstones of business …
Micro Blogging; the personal RFID tag?
This is linked to my views on changes in the way we are working that I previously referred to as moving from Matrix Working to Mesh Working. The more I try to fit the various pieces together the more I think it’s not just about work, it’s about the increasingly blurring of our lives between people, places and events all over lapping, so may be it’s better to say ‘Mesh Interacting’. A complex meshing together …
