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I was working with some customers this week, and the topic of “how do you generate events?” comes up. Not how as in the dirty mechanics, but how when something is done manually today, getting that systematized. So, please bear with me on the following …
A few weeks ago I was paging through an issue of Mother Jones and the article, “All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup” caught my eye. The story discussed how more and more, managers are asking their employees to take on heavier workloads with longer hours without any incentives. What was even more striking […]
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Another somewhat-delayed week’s-worth of Tweets and links, organized in the usual way with the usual categories and the usual ‘Read more…’ break: Anything to do with enterprise-architecture and all the other usual business-big-picture stuff: tetradian: [post] The is-ness of business http://bit.ly/pR0YbC #entarch tetradian: [post] Questions on business-model to enterprise-architecture http://bit.ly/pD8pRZ #entarch #bizarch #bmgen (for @ArtBourbon) […]
Over on Active Information, I wrote a post inspired by a recent consult. As I was thinking about the post, and the consult, I scribbled and then preview tweeted the following:
“Data isn’t just a mechanism to manage the business you have, it’s a tool to learn what business you could be in.”
Read the post. Implement the message.
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A project manager and very good friend of mine once called and asked to speak with me, urgently, and privately. I was somewhat intrigued and suspicious. She wasn’t given to flights of fancy, so I couldn’t imagine the issue.
She enters my office,…
A project manager and very good friend of mine once called and asked to speak with me, urgently, and privately. I was somewhat intrigued and suspicious. She wasn’t given to flights of fancy, so I couldn’t imagine the issue.
She enters my office,…
There is much to recommend about changing how we create, deploy and offer our services and products to customers. Yet there is an entire consulting industry built around avoiding the pitfalls of cloud.
Given the responses to my previous post ‘Guess I could do with some help here…‘, seems it’d be useful if I clarify a bit more what kind of help I most need. (Or we need, rather, as an industry and discipline: probably the only ‘I’-part here is that I seem to be one of the […]
Reading KCore‘s excellent blog-post ‘High quality, High Impact KM: Start with the right questions‘, this early section of the article caught my eye: I’ve set out my stall when it comes to KM and by now it should be pretty clear that I believe that successful KM outputs are reliant on people. I also strongly believe […]
The barriers and accelerators to individual markets and new markets are evolving and in constant dynamic change. Standards and interoperability are at the center of these issues and affect the very levers of change in markets. Cloud Computing is one su…
It’s official: ‘Cloud computing’ is now meaningless | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld
Dave was inspired by our recent podcast:
“…yet another Gartner hype cycle report is now out. You can expect to see its accompanying graphic (below) used in every vendor’s presentation from now on. (There must be a law or something.)”
tags: linthicum cloudcomputing
CloudCamp Boston @ OpenStack, Oct 6, 2011
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.
tags: boston cloudcomputing
Schumpeter: Think different | The Economist
“Mr Christensen and his colleagues list five habits of mind that characterise disruptive innovators: associating, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Innovators excel at connecting seemingly unconnected things…”
Twitter to open source Hadoop-like tool — Cloud Computing News
Twitter retains BackType’s plan to open source Storm. “Twitter says it is planning to open source Storm, its Hadoop-like real-time data processing tool.”
tags: Twitter storm streamprocessing cep
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The title of my new blog post is provocative. Why would I ask such a question, especially after covering number of CIO surveys, trends, leading CIO thought leaders and underlining the strategic importance of IT in this very blog? I am asking this quest…