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Monthly Archives: July 2008
A Business Model or Architecture for Web 2.0
In my last Monday post I brought up the topic of Business Technology, BT, as the name for the new generation of web based technology, as opposed to IT and PC based technology, ending by posting the question. ‘What is the Business Architecture that would gain value from Business Technology?’ This post is based on collecting, and collating, a wide variety of views and is my attempt in one quick post to provide an ‘ah …
Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: Is U.S. innovation headed offshore? [Business Week] Apparently not, even though more research and development is joining manufacturing in the shift toward low-cost nations. Where are they now? [The Industry Standard] The darlings of the first dot com bubble were seen as innovation made concrete. Where are they now? Can America keep its …
Socio-Technical Systems not IT Systems (‘The Dreyfus Moment’)
I’ve been intending to post on Socio-Technical Systems for a little while now, and Andy’s recent post on Business Technology has provided the prefect timing. Since a post I made in February on how the IT industry might have inadvertently corrupted the word ‘system’ – I appear to have been getting quite close to what might only be described as a personal ‘Dreyfus Moment’. For those of you familiar with the Pink Panther films, you …
Business Technology not Information Technology
Time to be either controversial or helpful in identifying what is the real issue in the use of technology for business as we look ahead. It’s pretty clear too that from CEOs, to CIOs; from CTOs to CFOs; to say nothing of users and consumers, we are using a wider range of technologies than ever, and more particularly that this is largely due to the advent of a new ‘paradigm’ (please forgive me for the …
Exciting IT? Come to the Dark Side.
I am about to leave for holidays. And so are probably a few more of you. Thought it would be nice to leave you with a couple of ideas and concepts. Just to keep you focused among all the distraction of doing nothing and enjoying the great outdoors. I can’t really tell you where I am going (although I will reveal that the local currency is quite low compared to the Euro), but the weather …
ASAP is dead! Long live ASAP!
My colleague Mendel Koerts has been publishing guest blog-items on SAP BMP / eSOA and the SAP TechEd before and it is with great pleasure that I give him the stage again. Yep, you guessed it, it’s about SAP. But not the SAP as we know it. I happen to watch Mendel working on an important book about ‘Architected SAP’. Consider the following item by Mendel as a prelude, and follow this blog for more …
New Web 2.0 services; Data Portability
Making Data Portability suck less; Not the phrase I would have used to headline my web site but for GNIP, (apparently pronounced guh-nip), that’s what they choose to describe their mission. GNIP is a start-up that obeys the increasingly popular start up technology model of providing a horizontal service across the width of the web to gather/access everything, then selling a service of providing the ability to take a focus out of this breadth to …
Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. The Customer is the Company [Inc.com] Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month — with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it’s never produced a flop. It’ll never work [Null hypothesis] In light of the claim that inflatable cars are set to become the vehicle of …
Microsoft is cool – if you are a teenager (or a home user)!
I read this really rather tough appraisal of Microsoft by one of the technology papers the other day, and of course it was focussed on Microsoft as a supplier of technology for the enterprise. Not so strange as that is the way most people in our line of work relate to Microsoft, but is that really the whole picture? I am really struck by the difference in the generations and their view of Microsoft. To …
Features Overrated
Nah, let’s not produce yet another obvious comment on the queues of people, anxiously waiting to buy – and maybe, just maybe even activate – their new iPhone 3G. After all, this is world news that nobody can escape from, easily beating missile tests in Iran and the election dispute in Zimbabwe. What did strike me though in some early comments was the claim that the functionality of the iPhone is not so special at …
