The architecture of information

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• You can’t buy innovation

  2012/01/25 in Innovation, Uncategorized

  Why is it so hard to incent our companies or teams to do anything innovative? Something tangible that makes a difference to the top or bottom line. The vast majority of innovation programmes seem to deliver little more that some nice demos before the programme peters out, with stakeholders often happy to return to their [...]

• The top posts for 2011 were …

  2012/01/09 in Business-Technology

  And the top ten posts from the last year — as recorded by Popularity Contest — are: Knowledge Workers in the British Raj Problems and the people who solve them Working in Hollywood World of Warcraft in the workplace The future of (knowledge) work BPM over promised and under delivered The north-south divide Cloud computing’s [...]

• Outsourcing in an increasingly complex world

  2011/11/16 in Business-Technology, IT Strategy, Publications

  Pressure on margins is driving organizations to increasingly rationalize and externalize supporting functions as they search for more efficient and flexible delivery approaches.

• Is Salesforce.com already legacy IT?

  2011/11/15 in Business-Technology, Cloud & SaaS, IT Strategy

  The more I think about it, the more I feel that we need to rethink what “application” means. The IT industry – and therefore “application” – has been defined by businesses’ need to acquire IT assets. The roles companies play in the industry have accreted around this need, as I’ve pointed out before[1]. The big [...]

• Death of the shopping mission

  2011/11/14 in Business-Technology

  When did you last go on a mission to buy something? Something specific that you had decided you needed. Were you looking for a book to read, heading to a nearest bookstore to browse the shelves? Was it a trip to the local big-box store to stock up on toilet paper and other household odds [...]