Get a few beers into a group of developers these days and it’s not uncommon for the complaints to start flowing about BPM (Business Process […]
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Innovation [2010-05-25]
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. Innovation and R&D [The Economist] […]
Continue readingDanger Will Robinson!
Andy Mulholland has a nice post over at the Capgemini CTO blog, which points out that we have a strange aversion to the colour red. […]
Continue readingPeople don’t like change. (Or do they?)
I seem to be having a lot of conversations at the moment around whether people (you, me and everyone else) like and embrace change, or […]
Continue readingTea bags: the unexpected
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks in the House Secrets exhibit. A thrifty tea merchant from New York named Thomas Sullivan is credited with […]
Continue readingDecisions are more important than data
Names and categories are important. Just look at the challenges faced by the archeology community as DNA evidence forces history to be rewritten when it […]
Continue readingComplexity isn’t (at least in enterprise IT)
There’s a lot of talk these days about complexity in enterprise IT. The heterogeneous solutions we’re building today seem more complex than the monolithic solutions […]
Continue readingInnovation [2010-05-10]
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. Why B-Schools Set Up Entrepreneurs […]
Continue readingPenicillin: the unexpected
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks. The penicillin mold was a pest, not a resource. Backteriologists went to great lengths to protect their bacterial […]
Continue readingHaving too much SOA is a bad thing (and what we might do about it)
SOA enablement projects (like a lot of IT projects) have a bad name. An initiative that starts as a good idea to create a bit […]
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