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Monthly Archives: August 2011
User-centric working – the PC is dead and personal computing thrives
I wrote this post in anticipation of the 30th birthday of the PC in August with the accompaniment of various articles and posts about this pretty momentous occasion. Momentous because the ‘personal’ element was the beginning of a really genuine shift in the way we work, leading to the ‘consumerization of IT’ as we term much of today’s changes. That is a path that has led us from expensive hardware limiting its use to enterprises, …
Have the wheels come off the PC industry?
It’s been an amazing couple of weeks kicked off by Acer delivering poor results, followed by Dell lowering its forecast for sales in 2012, then a boost with good revenue figures from Lenovo, but with a reported 46% coming from emerging markets, finally the real kicker of news from HP. After talking up their competitive positioning and innovation around webOS, developed from their purchase of Palm and its operating system, suddenly six months later with …
On holiday? What are you using to read this?
What to write about in the middle of August with most Europeans on holiday? Well the answer is pretty clearly mobility and the change in expectations of what being on holiday means. If work has already changed from the definitions of attendance at a certain place at a certain time to use the provided tools (i.e. being in your designated office during business hours using your enterprise-provided PC), then does the definition of being on …
Big data is not a voluntary move, it’s happening to you NOW
It seems as though big data is the latest candidate for the hype cycle, and even though I reacted to a number of articles and white papers a month or so back, it appears to be back on the agenda again. The triggers this time are a press interview in which I was asked to give my views, and the publishing of a very good – meaning very practical account of what to consider and …
Social networking is creeping into your enterprise – time to manage it!
Today, yet another email arrived trying to tell Paul Hermelin, our CEO, (with a copy to myself) that this company had made a breakthrough in social collaboration tools. These mails, more often than not at a CEO level, are getting to be a depressingly familiar item in my mail box, at least three a week I would guess. There are two things that amaze me; first that the senders do so little homework because if …
