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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Silo Considered Harmful
So what exactly is everybody’s problem with Silo’s? Not a particularly warm-received phenomenon among IT specialists and consultants. Any junior writer of IT marketing material knows it: first you launch some platitudes about globalization, increasing competition and changes that occur faster and faster. And right after that, it is time to deal with silo’s. Silo’s are evil. Our legacy systems resemble them. Isolated and compartmentalised, they lead an utterly useless existence. Luckily, now we have …
People Awareness joins Content Awareness
Probably quite a few people were surprised at the announcement of LinkedIn forming a ‘content distribution and technology integration’ partnership with CNBC. Quite a lot of people have experienced LinkedIn as an early, and still leading, example of bringing together people in Business Networks, but it seems difficult to make the connection from this to a news channel. On the other hand LinkedIn has been preparing its position and financing to move forward and develop …
Less Speed and more Objectivity on Google Chrome
There was a rush to get out comments on Google’s new browser Chrome when it was launched at the beginning of September, indeed I even had internal mail expressing surprise that I had not posted a piece on Chrome. Whilst in no way expressing anything negative against my colleagues posts – all four of them on the CTOBlog and Capping IT Off Blog – I am concerned that the quest for immediacy may sometimes be …
Stupid is as Stupid does? Is Google REALLY making us Stupid…
I came across a fascinating article that described the effect of the Internet (as personified by Google), which included some fairly chilling impacts of heavy internet usage – diminished ability to do deep reading (and by association, assimilation of content) of books or articles. The upshot was an interesting exploration of how much the medium actually influences how we think and act. A larger discussion that is still going on is whether the web is …
Organising for Value or for Events?
As we move steadily into Enterprise 2.0 there is beginning to be more and more material around on business architecture the noble art of understanding how a business is organised in terms of its functions and business flow. The first half of the title, organising for value was used in the McKinsey Quarterly Review and published online in July 2008. The piece recommends challenging the conventional decision making structure on the grounds that local operational …
5 Minute Friday
I would like to offer a suggestion, which is to spend 5 minutes of your Friday watching this short film. While described as a film about what ‘Web 2.0’ is all about, it’s actually a film about how IT really works today. If you’ve ever wondered why people are starting to talk about ‘people-centric IT’ in the same breath as ‘enterprise solutions’, this explains it. It’s quite a famous clip by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor …
Pile It Up: Google’s audio indexing
One of the concepts we cover in our TechnoVision point of view is Googlification: thanks to powerful search technologies, we do not really have to structure our information any more. We just pile it up and search whenever we need something. It is often how people find their way on the Web and it is the preferred strategy for handling mail by Gmail users. Now Google Labs are taking things just a tiny, little bit …
Sourcing Start-ups, and deciding on their potential
I now have a set of predictions about emerging technologies, web 2.0, etc from a wide range of sources. In the past month professional researchers, consulting firms, financial analysts, business schools, etc have all put out interesting documents. The broad direction is pretty consistent, and I guess to you all not too much of a surprise, but the question I most often get asked is where and how can I figure which start-ups I should …
IT Creates a Better Place
Every now and then we may have our doubts about the real meaning of technology. We even may be tempted to think that it is true: IT does not matter. But then, there are these little pearls that truly help us to understand the value of the technology and it’s relevancy in challenging the world problems of today. And to be honest, I don’t think Shai Agassi’s Better Place project is a little pearl. It …
A different premise for operation?
I was thinking about IT, and how the business community can find IT services relevant to their work but not find the IT department relevant, something which was shown in our most recent CIO survey. It occurred to me that perhaps we (the IT community) are working from some wrong, or at least obsolete premises. The tendency in IT is to put things into nice, neat boxes. Our background with programming logic makes us do …
