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A great Tweet from Oscar Berg this morning: oscarberg: IMO #socbiz is primarily a mindset&way2see business in increasingly connected & digital age I think he’s exactly right there: in essence, ‘social business’ is a different mindset about the way a business relates with others, and also with itself (as in the now seemingly-all-but-forgotten ‘Enterprise 2.0′). […]
Crovitz: Complexity Is Bad for Your Health – WSJ.com
It’ll be interesting to see if SCOTUS determines if (a) the complexity of the entire law makes it impossible to strike down the mandate; or (b) if the mandate is deemed unconstitutional, thus sinking the entire complicated law.
Is it too complex to fail? Or, too complex to stand?
“The justices focused on the complexity of the law to debate what happens if they find some parts unconstitutional, such as the individual mandate that forces people to buy insurance. Can the rest of it stay, or must it all fall, and the political branches start on health-care reform from scratch? And how could the court practically pick and choose, given the law’s great length and complexity?”
“Perhaps ObamaCare will be remembered as the breaking point for top-down planning. There is not enough information available for the government to micromanage a system as complex as health care, which represents more than 15% of the economy. Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wrote some 50 years ago about the “pretence of knowledge,” meaning the conceit that planners could know enough about complex markets to dictate how they operate. He warned against “the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess.”
tags: complexity healthcare scotus
5 ways to power the Internet of things — Cleantech News and Analysis
“The Internet of Things could have a mind-boggling 24 billion devices connected by 2020 and that means there will be more than three times the amount of connected devices as people on the planet by that time. So, how will the world power all of these gadgets and machine-driven devices? The answer, beyond plugging all of those devices into the grid, will include farming tiny slices of power when available, from sources like the sun, vibrations, mechanical energy, heat and more.”
tags: cleantech green internet-of-things
Business-Facing IT Jobs In Demand – The CIO Report – WSJ
“…outsources what he calls “run-of-the-mill coding jobs” to India, said there are plenty of positions for enterprise architects, data integration architects, and business analysts. Such jobs include all of the” thinking work” that ends up in code and can’t be done offshore because it requires core understanding of each individual company, Leader said.
Recent college graduates could fill core project management and business analyst positions in IT, he said. Leader himself hired project managers, an enterprise architect and business analysts. Many other jobs, including enterprise and integration architects, require strong skill sets that cannot be filled by students fresh out of college, forcing companies to compete for those applicants. “We cannot find people to fill these jobs,” Leader told CIO Journal.”
tags: wsj entarch integration IT business_analysis
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Het bericht Deploying VisualWorks Applications verscheen eerst op Rob Vens.
Last week I gave a talk about the lessons learned during the exponential growth of our company the last six years. I was invited to to talk at the Appsterdam meetup in Delft about “growing pains”. In other words: what lessons did we learn when our company grew from 3 to 100 employees. I enjoyed the preparations as much as the actual talk, as it forced me to step back.
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Last week I gave a talk about the lessons learned during the exponential growth of our company the last six years. I was invited to to talk at the Appsterdam meetup in Delft about “growing pains”. In other words: what lessons did we learn when our company grew from 3 to 100 employees. I enjoyed the preparations as much as the actual talk, as it forced me to step back and think about the things we did and did not last years.
I covered lessons learned in four categories: company, culture, product development, and product evolution. Attempting to cover all these subject automatically means that you stay at a high level. However, I think I was able to share some valuable experiences from the trenches. It will be interesting to dive deeper in the separate categories in the future!
The slides:
Do you recognize these lessons? What are your most important lessons learned? If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask them in the comments!
I was in a great session at SGHE Summit Conference facilitated by my good friend Brian Knotts (@brian_knotts) titled the Future of ERP. The discussion began with a suggestion from me that our higher education institutions need to find ways to become &#…
I was honored, recently, when the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) decided to interview me on the topics of Enterprise Architecture. The first of those interviews has appeared on the CIPS.CA web site. You can link to it from here.
http://www.cips.ca/CIPS-INTERVIEWS-Nick-Malik-April2012
There is an impending change coming. In many ways this change is being driven by the move into The Cloud, (the commoditization of IT) and the move to Bring Your […]
“At this very moment, there’s an odds-on chance that someone in your organization is making a poor decision on the basis of information that was enormously expensive to collect.”
This week on Active Information, I highlight a report from the Corporate Executive Board on building organizational capability for Big Data.
My post focuses on human capability, which the Corporate Executive Board refers to as Big Judgment. The data literacy aspect is from a synopsis of Tiffany’s training program.
The post: Developing data literacy: Big Data requires inform… – Input Output.
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Roughly 20-30% of the population is acknowledged introverts and it’s no secret that IT has its fair share. One of the more famous is Steve Wozniak who dreamt up the first Apple computer in solitude. It’s highly unlikely that this quantum leap of imagination that changed the world would have bubbled to the surface in a boisterous brainstorming session. That’s because introverts like Wozniak excel in low-key environments and crave quiet to create, as Susan […]
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