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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Trust in Motion
Trust has been a word used quite a lot recently. The lack of trust in credit ratings. The lack of trust between banks. The need to rebuild trust in the global financial system. Stephen M. R. Covey has recently written a highly regarded book all about it called ‘The Speed of Trust – the one thing that changes everything’ – and the ‘Speed of Trust’ title provided one of the inspirations behind this post. In …
The CIO and the Credit Crunch; enabling change
In the last few weeks on my usual rounds of meeting clients I have been expecting that the topic of the credit crunch would be a major item in each discussion. Amazingly not so, other then for some personal chat about the world going mad. Why? Because they feel they can do very little to reduce their own costs further regardless of what the business may demand, AND, they don’t feel that the enterprise they …
Four ways that Technology has changed our buying patterns
In the past couple of years I have read much more widely than ever before as I have tried to understand Business Technology, the bringing together of technology and business into a single capability as opposed to IT which is a separate operation that must be aligned to business. There is no shortage of stuff to read around the topic, and most of it seems to be from a business point of view, and poses …
The true cost of eMail, and saving through Collaboration
I frequently surprise people when in response to an email I pick up the telephone and give them a call, as I usually point out if the phone had been invented after email then it would have been seen as a breakthrough in the ability to collaborate. There is no doubt about it email is simple and easy, and based on thirty plus year old technology! Yup its one of the oldest technologies we have …
Tech Vendors outline the (their) future direction
It’s normally tough to get sponsorship for events, and even tougher to get a full programme of speakers and topics agreed, so imagine my surprise to find not just one, but two events coming up with full programmes containing all the mainstream vendors. One is current and therefore can be followed online through the Bloggers that attend, and the other is in June 2009, but right now you can still read the fairly detailed synopsis …
Guest blogger Mendel Koerts on SAP TechEd 2008
Guess many of you followed the wild adventures of Lee Provoost in semi-realtime mashed-up mode, twittering and videotaping his way through the SAP TechEd 2008 in Berlin (and many other related and unrelated subjects for that matter). Here is another go at this big event, written by our excellent guest blogger and colleague Mendel Koerts. SAP TechEd Berlin – Some t’s left to cross Berlin was buzzing with SAP Tech talk the past week. It …
Time to introduce the tigers to the swans?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s bestselling ‘The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable’ has to be one of the most timely published books ever – and as a taster if you haven’t read it I’d suggest this excellent interview with the author by Bryan Appleyard of the UK’s The Sunday Times. Bryan’s summary is excellent – ‘The name of the book comes from the discovery of black swans in Australia. Before that, any reasonable person …
Something With Substance about Green IT
In a previous post, Something Substantial on Technology and Green IT, I wrote about the difficulties we face as an industry in putting together well thought-out recommendations about how to raise ‘green’ higher on the IT agenda. IT tends to revert to meeting reliability and cost-requirements in the absence of well-defined green standards. Indeed, the problem we face is that the most direct way of aligning green to IT is aligning energy costs with the …
SAPTechEd 2008 – THE experiment for you to join in!
Let’s start in a conventional manner with the announcement that IBM have just launched a new social networking community all about planning, using and deploying SOA, not so surprising as this is the new ‘must have’. Its goal is to encourage all manner of people to get together and share experiences and ask questions of each other, naturally IBM colleagues will be on hand to assist everyone as well. The comparison to existing Web Pages …
Depression
I am probably wrong, but somehow I have this feeling of crisis hanging in the air. Do not ask me how I know, it is just this very well-developed sensitivity for what is happening in the market. On top of that, it is autumn in the part of the world I live in. Brown and yellow leaves are swirling all around while a clammy wind blows through the deserted streets. Looks like everybody has spontaneously …
