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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Cloud and Social: the tectonic plates of IT 2.0
We’re on the verge of a new era in IT. Web 2.0, E2.0, SOA 2.0: anything 2.0, which I combinedly call IT 2.0 My first IT experiences dating back 25 years, I’ve noticed that it basically provides humans with machines. Or more accurately, human tasks are slowly replaced by machine tasks where possible It takes time to turn human tasks into machine tasks, so basically they shouldn’t change while being built. They also shouldn’t change …
If you are not in Google, you don’t exist
What will happen if you don’t popup in search engine results in about five years?
The pitfall of Enterprise and Social: evolution takes place in small steps
According to MIT’s definition in the wikipedia, “Enterprise architecture is the organizing logic for business processes and IT infrastructure reflecting the integration and standardization requirements of the firm’s operating model” Enterprise Architecture is a well-debated topic. It certainly is an ambitious goal, and encompasses a rather huge area: the enterprise. One could compare it with city architecture, although those folks usually take a bit longer for redesigning and -building entire cities. In IT, almost everything …
Why is Capgemini embracing video?
Debate TV is Capgemini’s new forum for sharing experience, pooling knowledge and learning together. It’s an opportunity to collaborate around the issues that we all face today, and ultimately to improve the way we do business. The conversations on Debate TV will address specific questions of the kind that we encounter in our work in consulting, technology and sourcing. Also other topics, such as these are also mentioned on the technology blog will be covered. …
Is technology secondary in getting your communities to innovate?
Capgemini Research uncovers the implications of Employees’ motivation to participate in innovation platforms. These implications are related to culture, communication and organisation more then to technology or platform. This gives insight into the success factors of any social innovation endeavor.
The Analytics of Corporate Performance Management
BI &CPM can help make better decisions but Analytics can help make the best decision.
Weekly digest of week 3 2010
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
Enterprise Architecture: The Only Way Forward
Just returned from another assignment as an enterprise architect. In the UK this time. Nice job, great people, well-received deliverables. But again, it was not easy for me and the team to finish 100% of our original statement of work. And to play a prominent role also in the last part of our enterprise architecture cycle: the governance of the implementation projects. Why can life be so difficult for enterprise architects these days? Why is …
Introducing our agile dashboard
The Accelerated Delivery Platform’s (ADP) Agile Dashboard is a pragmatic and publicly available tool (free) for managing project progress online. The Agile Dashboard was originally intended to manage progress for our agile projects, but these day it is used in a much broader perspective. As the ADP Core Team receives a lot of questions about it, it’s time to present a small introduction here, including future directions. Administrating projects The Agile Dashboard simply administrates projects, …
How can we prevent a Social CRM bubble? Lessons from the boom and bust of CRM
Social CRM offers the CRM industry a huge opportunity to put the customer back at its rightful centre but as George Santayana once said “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.





