PwC’s CIO/CMO Roundtable with Geoffrey Moore

by

Guest Post by Ted Shelton On a recent evening in Silicon Valley, PwC hosted the well-known author Geoffrey Moore and 15 CIOs and CMOs from some of the leading Bay Area global technology firms. Over dinner Geoffrey led a spirited conversation on the new challenges that CIOs and CMOs are facing – rapid expansion of digital tools and techniques as a part of marketing activities; blending of marketing with other functional areas such as customer […]

Design Choice and Iteration

by

There are two misleading ideas (espoused theories) about how architects and designers make decisions.According to classical decision theory (Herbert Simon), one or more designers develops a series of alternative options, working collaboratively or in c…

The Interconnectedness of All Things

by

Cloud, SOA, Enterprise Mobility, Social Media/Enterprise/Business, The Internet of Things, Big Data (you name it) – each in its own way is part of an overall tendency. The general trend is for enterprises to become increasingly involved in increasingly broad ecosystems. … Continue reading →

What Are You Doing To Get Off XP?

by

In case you haven’t heard Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP and Office 2003 in April of 2014. What this means is that Microsoft will no longer patch security vulnerabilities discovered in XP or Office 2003, and therefore there will be security holes discovered that can be exploited by hackers which will never be […]