I wrote the following article a month or so back and it gained a lot of appreciative remarks. It’s a follow-on from my post entitled ‘Mind the Gap and the Accidental Technologists’, in which I highlighted the difference between the way a business manager wants to use business technology to solve new front office business requirements from the way an IT manager is required to use IT to manage the back office business requirements. It’s …

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I have just had a colleague call me to say that he spent an hour and half with some IT folks to get a point across, and in the next meeting with the business team, it only took five minutes. This is not unusual at the moment, but it’s the very point that I always have in mind when writing my posts: the ‘gap’. The topic of how well IT is aligned to business has …

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I honestly thought that the terms ‘Semantic Web’, and ‘Web 3.0’ had disappeared for good as concepts that belonged to an earlier phase of the development of the web. It wasn’t – and isn’t – that I don’t agree with the objectives of ‘semantics’; I am just a little unsure of the ideas that were associated with these terms at the time, regarding their context within the rest of the developing web. Semantics itself is …

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I wrote a blog post entitled ‘we want web 2.0, whatever that is’ a couple of years back, which drew attention to the challenge of hype with new technologies and their capabilities as laid out by Tim O’Reilly in his original definition of web 2.0. My plea was for people to appreciate the entirety of Tim’s thinking, in order to really grasp the very profound concept he was trying to identify. Instead, what I saw …

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