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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Weekly digest of week 21 2010
A weekly digest provided by Capgemini
Death by Landscape
Suppose you are in the IT department of a (very) large organization and have been developing systems for your organization for quite some years. Chances are that you will have a landscape of systems great and small that all serve a particular purpose, or that have served a particular purpose. Systems that were built in a variety of languages, such as Visual Basic, Cobol, C, PowerBuilder, Java, or packaged systems including SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft or …
Weekly digest of week 20 2010
A weekly digest provided by Capgemini
Weekly digest of week 19 2010
A weekly digest provided by Capgemini
Doing old things in an old way on a new platform (and fail)
The biggest mistake you can make when introducing something new, is to keep the process exactly the same.
Knowledge Assets –A wealth for corporate
Have you got a chance to pose a question to yourself, how companies are creating wealth? It is purely based on intellectual assets of the employees. Knowledge is the fundamental base for wealth creation, productivity and innovation.”Knowledge” is emerging as a most important resource compared to land, capital, and labour. Knowledge Management is one of the ways companies create, disseminate and leverage their intellectual assets. Physical assets will have the limited period of life with …
Weekly digest of week 18 2010
A weekly digest provided by Capgemini
Infinite monkey theorem – the key of the Generative Web?
The infinite monkey theore states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time, will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. With 24 hours of video uploaded every minute on YouTube, there are a lot of ‘monkeys’ who are hitting their ‘typewriters’ in creating their next master piece. So actually it isn’t surprising that the there is a really great video on YouTube every now and then which is considered a masterpiece (just a matter of enough ‘monkeys’).
Weekly digest of week 17 2010
A weekly digest provided by Capgemini
Startups, Innovation and Capgemini
Last week I attended a Show and Tell session, featuring three innovative, venture-backed startup companies at our office in London’s West End, and must admit that I came away with the distinct feeling that any economic recovery in the UK, and elsewhere, will likely be fueled by relentless innovation and entrepreneurship from startups like these.





