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Capping IT Off
Monthly Archives: March 2011
It’s all IP in the Cloud
All the hype surrounding Cloud computing, coupled with the mandatory cautionary tales around security and control, or the lack thereof, makes it is easy to overlook a small but significant component of the cloud proposition i.e.: Who owns what Intellectual Property in the Cloud?
The ‘no-training’ myth in Social Media
‘Why should we need training for our new collaboration platform, nobody had training for Facebook and everybody is using it’. It might be a recognizable phrase if you introduce social media solutions in organisations. However the peculair thing is that the same people who claim that you don’t need any training for a collaboration platform will claim that everybody needs a training for the new SAP ERP that just has been implemented. The fallacy If …
Mind the user experience gap
According to Race Online 2012 there are “9 million adults in the UK who have never used the Internet“ that’s a fifth of the adult population. Back in the good old pre-Dot-com-crash days we, as web designers, used to make fun of how little the clients understood, but the truth is we were all just insecure and learning about the possibilities of this new digital world in parallel with our clients. The Internet was new …
Improving social media monitoring…
As Social Media Monitoring travels through the technology hype cycle it’s clear that many early adopters are experiencing disappointing results. Having heard the stories of start-up businesses like Threadless or GiffGaff harnessing social insight to create real, tangible value (see my post on GiffGaff – a case study of customers in control), many large organizations are often disappointed at the results they are getting from SMM. If you find yourself in the “trough of disillusionment, below are some of the common pitfalls along with some suggestions to improve results and drive value from your investment.
Mobile DQ – the Next Evolution of Mobile BI?
I recently attended a Webinar on SAP’s geographic data services (such as geocoding and proximity matching). In listening to the material being presented, I began to consider a much broader picture of data quality in the current market place. Although geographic data services is not the core focus of this post, I wanted to pass along a white paper in case you are interested in learning more about the topic. In past posts I have …
Why do IT Projects fail? – a testers point of view.
We all know a project that has been ended before it actually went live or went way over budget. Why is this? So many professionals, so much knowledge and still there are a lot of major projects that don’t seem to be on time, within budget and/or in scope with the right kind of quality. Obviously this can be because of very good reasons out of the control of anyone (name for example nature disasters …
The “Bob Ross-effect”
Probably when growing up your mom or dad or any other elder told you to think before you act. Nothing wrong with this advice, it’s so true. When making a presentation you should have a story before you even open up your slide design tool, in most cases PowerPoint. Most people just dive into SharePoint and start making slides and ‘go with the flow’. If it works for you, fine by me but it’s always …
Responsibility and responsible disclosure
Earlier this month a story went round that the GCHQ (responsible for Britain’s SIGINT activities) wants to monitor Britain’s most vital private networks for unusual network traffic. Prime Minister David Cameron invited a number of large companies at Downing Street to discuss these plans. A somewhat disturbing thought at first: wiretapping with permission? And what about the permission of the owner of the data passing, as this initiative would also involve companies moving third party …
MDM strategy is a business challenge
About 5 years ago I made a statement that there was no such thing as IT strategy. What I meant was that there should be no such thing as a strategy purely for IT but instead it should be about how you solve business challenges and address the business strategy. In other words good “IT strategy” is actually an implementation roadmap to solve business challenges. Now in the MDM world this is actually central to …
Chain Testing the next level
This is a guest post by Hans Lumadjeng. Hans is an expert on chain testing in the Netherlands where the emphasis of his approach lies in the mitigating of business risks. In past decades our clients were confronted with the ‘spin-off’ of System Integrations (SI) in different areas where a lot of information (data) was transported through different systems or platforms. One of the main reason to implement SI projects was the business’ needs to …
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