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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Living And Dying The Online Way
These days it seems that just about anything you can think of has already been done online, including the morbid topic of death related services. Apparently there is a quietly burgeoning industry of post mortem service providers that will, for an appropriate fee, take care of winding up your online affairs and “estate” after you pass on.
It is not information overload, it is information gluttony
If things are important they will come to you. There is no need for digital packratting. Although there are no costs for it, you sure pay a price by cluttering your information flow.
The Ninth Type Of Deadly Waste
Even with the troubles of product defects at Toyota, the Lean methodology derived from the Toyota Production System is still valid. The simple fact is that Toyota has strayed from their own path and ventured into the world of mass production ways of working. With disastrous effect. The plan that Mr Toyoda has presented basically comes down to a renewed, and more strict, focus on the customer and on quality. And even though many people …
Weekly digest of week 7 2010
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
What would Google CRM look like?
A few years ago, when I was working for SAP, I posed a question to my team: “If Google were to launch a CRM solution, what would it look like and how would SAP respond both tactically and strategically”? I mocked up some fictitious “Google CRM” screenshots showing Google CRM mashed up with Google Docs, Google Adwords, Google Maps etc and I described the solution as a free CRM solution funded by advertising revenue that would shake up the CRM market.
Here have something you don’t want
If you have only one option, there isn’t so much left choosing, is it? However most enterprises think this is the way to implement concepts such as Enterprise2.0. They choose one solution (without consulting the people who will have to use the solution) that is often presented as the solution to everything for everybody.
To the movies
Dutch local government is a lot like the movies. It makes you laugh, cry, scream, hold your breath, yawn. I live in Rotterdam, and have seen a lot of movies from the City recently. I applied for a car parking permit, building permit and a bicycle parking permit. I’ll tell you about the parking permit to show where the analogy fits. A normal person states, it`s easy to decide if you are entitled to a …
To search or to find? That is the question
There’s more information on the Internet than one could apprehend in a hundred lifetimes, and it’s growing too – and (most of the times) kept up-to-date. Different organisations, places and networks holding that information make it hard to get it all together, so how to make that information homogenous, and uniformly accessible? Can it be done? Should it be done? Over the last decade we went from data to knowledge.The World Wide Web has linked …
What’s new about cloud security?
I’m being asked quite a lot at the moment about cloud security. Is it possible to secure the cloud, is there anything different about cloud security? I believe that about 70% of cloud security is just good security and you would need to do it whether or not you’re in a cloud. The rules for user authentication, device hardening and audit, for instance, are not much affected by cloud. Then, about 15% of cloud security …
Weekly digest of week 6 2010
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini





