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Those of you who attended either the SAP Sapphire in Orlando or Berlin may have seen the launch of a book by Nick Earle of Cisco and myself entitled ‘Mesh Collaboration – creating new business value in the network of everything’ and based on many of the points that have been posted here over the last twelve months. Here is Nick telling us his views on why we wanted to write the book and a little on how we used Mesh Collaboration to do it.
About the author
Capgemini Global Chief Technology Officer, Andy is a member of the Capgemini Group management board and advises on all aspects of technology-driven market changes, together with being a member of the Policy Board for the British Computer Society. Andy is the author of many white papers, and the co-author three books that have charted the current changes in technology and its use by business starting in 2006 with ‘Mashup Corporations’ detailing how enterprises could make use of Web 2.0 to develop new go to market propositions. This was followed in May 2008 by Mesh Collaboration focussing on the impact of Web 2.0 on the enterprise front office and its working techniques, then in 2010 “Enterprise Cloud Computing: A Strategy Guide for Business and Technology leaders” co-authored with well-known academic Peter Fingar and one of the leading authorities on business process, John Pyke. The book describes the wider business implications of Cloud Computing with the promise of on-demand business innovation. It looks at how businesses trade differently on the web using mash-ups but also the challenges in managing more frequent change through social tools, and what happens when cloud comes into play in fully fledged operations. Andy was voted one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the world in 2009 by InfoWorld and is grateful to readers of Computing Weekly who voted the Capgemini CTOblog the best Blog for Business Managers and CIOs each year for the last three years.
Nick,
Congratulations on the launch of your book “Mesh Collaboration”. I like to commend you on initializing the centralization and collaboration of global IP devices to bring Value added services that spans multiple companies and enables new business models.
It is more than half a decade now since the Mobile industry is trying to create a centralized and standardized device repository in order to innovate, launch and deliver value added services to now 2,5 billion plus devices. Although we have come a long way in terms of managing mobile devices, the challenges we face in terms of collaboration (read interopeability) and standardization are enormous. Recently, we raised the bar by adding Broadband wireless and converged devices to the basket of globally networked devices.
Now listening to your video and in near future reading your book, nothing can stop me from wondering how Cisco plans to and will achieve centralization and creation of a platform for managing and using (for business benefits)networked IP devices. What industry standards will you join forces with, which innovative ideas will you build to transcend non-IP and non-Cisco devices (mobile phones for example) and finally how will you enable businesses and your customers to collaborate across devices in the semi-globalized world?
I will be very pleased to hear from you on how to create bridge head between the devices and business processes. Also, I will be pleased to share some of my experience in Mobile industry, Internetworking industry (for Cisco if I may say) and applications industry (i.e. SAP Netweaver).
Hope to stay in touch and best wishes in your leadership endeavour at Cisco.
Regards,
Kaushik
Nick,
Congratulations on the launch of your book “Mesh Collaboration”. I like to commend you on initializing the centralization and collaboration of global IP devices to bring Value added services that spans multiple companies and enables new business models.
It is more than half a decade now since the Mobile industry is trying to create a centralized and standardized device repository in order to innovate, launch and deliver value added services to now 2,5 billion plus devices. Although we have come a long way in terms of managing mobile devices, the challenges we face in terms of collaboration (read interopeability) and standardization are enormous. Recently, we raised the bar by adding Broadband wireless and converged devices to the basket of globally networked devices.
Now listening to your video and in near future reading your book, nothing can stop me from wondering how Cisco plans to and will achieve centralization and creation of a platform for managing and using (for business benefits)networked IP devices. What industry standards will you join forces with, which innovative ideas will you build to transcend non-IP and non-Cisco devices (mobile phones for example) and finally how will you enable businesses and your customers to collaborate across devices in the semi-globalized world?
I will be very pleased to hear from you on how to create bridge head between the devices and business processes. Also, I will be pleased to share some of my experience in Mobile industry, Internetworking industry (for Cisco if I may say) and applications industry (i.e. SAP Netweaver).
Hope to stay in touch and best wishes in your leadership endeavour at Cisco.
Regards,
Kaushik