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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Tech Predictions 2009: Slow IT
When I first read Carl Honoré’s bestseller ‘In Praise of Slow’ I was devastated by his now famous example of speed-parenting. A few years ago, he was so obsessed with speed and efficiency that he actually liked the idea of One-Minute bedtime stories. Honoré read about it in a newspaper, impatiently standing in line at an airport gate. While figuring out how to get the complete series as fast as possible through Amazon, he suddenly …
The Incognito Banking Corporation and the Fairy Godmother 2.0
One of the greatest privileges in any field is working with the next generation, and specifically, listening to their perspectives on the issues. A little while ago I met one of Capgemini’s ‘BTC-ers’, Sham Mitra. (BTC stands for Business Technology Consultants, and is Capgemini UK’s technology graduate intake and development programme). Sham was keen to engage in the next practice work and I asked Sham to provide his perspective on the Web shift. What then …
What happens to my product portfolio if …
Sun has been in the news a fair bit recently, and not always around their product portfolio either. We should all be watching Sun in the news as this is the company that ‘owns’ Java, one of the fundamental pieces of the current mix of technologies, and whose big servers have been used at the core of many web systems. It was, as ever, the news that didn’t make the headlines that caught my eye. …
Technology that Matters
I have written already two times about the XO laptop, an extremely important initiative of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. But I think you should all know that the Give One Get One action has started again through Amazon. Just a case of very proper timing, I guess, with Christmas and a New Year coming. But also in a period of downturn that gets many people to rethink their position in a world that …
Apple/O2 versus Blackberry/Vodafone versus Google/T-Mobile
The launch of the Blackberry Storm, the ‘answer to the iPhone’, produced all the coverage you might expect. And of course it all centred on the features of the Storm, and the comparison with the other touch phones features, the old ‘speeds and feeds’ argument to differentiate. As I have commented before when all products have the same ‘tick the box’ features that doesn’t help, and these days it is more rewarding have a trial …
Tech Predictions 2009: Bricolage IT
You probably won’t be stunned by my prediction that 2009 looks like a bumpy year indeed. No matter how we put it, many IT departments will need to cut down on their costs. Applications and infrastructure will be consolidated, innovative projects may be on hold and the rest of the budget – if any – is likely to be spend on risk management, reporting and regulatory compliance. Interesting enough, this may lead to an even …
Why Business Models need Cloud Computing
I have wondered for most of the last couple of years just how long ‘free’, meaning paid for by advertising, services on the web could go on for, and with a recession looming this seems to be the time that this could get cut back. However when I look into this a little more carefully I find that my impression of ‘free’ as a business model supported by advertising is perhaps already out of date …
Now, who’s the President?!
You thought you got it all worked out. Used the Web 2.0 like no one else to mobilise a huge crowd of supporters. Announced to appoint a national CTO, in charge of using technology pro-actively to create new jobs and restore competiveness. Created an online dialogue with your citizens, even before your term began. Yes, you were going to be a geek in the best sense of the word, leveraging information technology to reach new …
Second Chance for Second Life, and other Virtual Worlds
A couple of years ago if you wanted a high impact post that would generate a lot of comments, all you had to do was post something on Second Life. It was very much the hype topic at the time and supporters and detractors were pretty well balanced in numbers thus guaranteeing a lively set of posts. Personally I was ambiguous in that I believed 3D was an important step forward that would benefit quite …
Digital Inclusion
Dr Chris Yapp has been working for some time with UK government on its Digital Inclusion agenda. As the digital economy expands, and its inter-relationships with the ‘real-economy’ deepen, the issues raised present important macro factors for our industry, the clients we serve and society at large. They also create some intriguing possibilities to enhance the general perception of the IT industry in this moment of downturn. I hope you find the read as thought-provoking …
