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Monthly Archives: October 2010
E20, Social and Generations: adopt vs adapt
Last blog post of Martijn Linssen, on Enterprise, Social, adapt and adopt. Today’s enterprises are facing a tough challenge – who will be able to take up the glove this time?
A recipe for enterprise agile. Mixing Scrum and Smart
To cut to the chase, those of you who have worked on enterprise or service oriented projects before already know this. These types of projects are characterized by a large number of organizational, functional and technically complicating factors. Enterprise software development projects are surrounded by a large number of complicating characteristics and challenges: Many different stakeholders. Projects have many different parties in the organization that are involved. Often such project realize goals for different departments …
The end of Business as Usual is only the beginning (part 3)
In Part 1 of this series we introduced Vorpal Inc, a traditional company in the popcorn machines business, entering new markets by bringing some ‘Shadow IT’ into the light. In Part 2 we derived a generic approach from Vorpal’s service-oriented transition, ending with a hint at the need for fast-delivering development methods… Part 3: Fast-delivered Business Value The “Mashup Corporations” book rightfully approaches service-enabling as a mean to create Business Value. Which is a perspective …
The end of Business as Usual is only the beginning (part 2)
In Part 1 of this series we introduced Vorpal Inc, a traditional company in the popcorn machines business, entering new markets by bringing some ‘Shadow IT’ into the light… Part 2: The larger picture The larger picture of what Vorpal is going through is a shift from ‘hub IT’ to ‘Edge IT’. The wagon wheel representation shows this as a next step in historical enterprise applications evolution: The ‘hub’ holds the core enterprise data and …
The end of Business as Usual is only the beginning (part 1)
A curious book When joining Capgemini Belgium, the Vice President of Technology Services offered me a book that was co-authored by Andy Mulholland, the CTO of the global Capgemini organization. The title of the book is “Mashup Corporations – The End of Business as Usual“. It was first published in 2006, while an updated, second version was published in 2007. And it turned out to be a curious book. It has a story line, but …
This is a guest blog by Maarten Oosterink. Maarten is a managing consultant within Capgemini working on IT security. Skimming (fraud on payment terminals and ATMs) is on a downward trend, but fraud via online banking is on the rise. This week the Dutch Banking Association launched a campaign on safe banking (in Dutch). They launched it to educate end-users by explaining how criminals work and how to defend yourself. As an IT security professional, …
Close, but no cigar
In earlier blogs, I have stated that I needed to clean up my archives. Well, I did. Well, I am still doing it. OK, I’m not there yet. But anything that definitely could be discarded is gone. Out. Shredded. Deleted. Wiped from the surface of the earth and, more importantly, from my house. So, now I am down to one cabinet which holds papers that may prove to still need to remain available. Where possible, …
Weekly digest of week 39 2010
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