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Comment on You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. by Integration is the new Operation – this decade and next

Integration is the new Operation – this decade and next — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:45:43 +0000

[...] I’m a bit tired of all the use of the word integrated and integration over the last few weeks and months. I would like to say: “You keep using that word. I think it does not mean what you think it means” [...]

Comment on You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. by Integration is the new Operation – this decade and next

Integration is the new Operation – this decade and next — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:45:43 +0000

Comment on Is Salesforce.com already legacy IT? by Peter Evans-Greenwood

Peter Evans-Greenwood — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:26:00 +0000

Yep, most companies are neither good enough to be cheap, nor good enough to be valuable, and end up just muddling along in the middle. Unfortunately the middle of the market is dying.

Comment on Is Salesforce.com already legacy IT? by Will Kriski

Will Kriski — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:57:00 +0000

As an IT contractor, it never fails to astound me that companies continue to do IT projects themselves when it’s not their core business. They rarely have the competency and are often reinventing the wheel (same features as many other companies). It seems to be based on tradition but also control and security. Most clients also think they have custom requirements.

Comment on The benefits of SaaS (beyond low cost) by Weekly digest of week 6 2010 | Capping IT Off | Capgemini

Weekly digest of week 6 2010 | Capping IT Off | Capgemini — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:53:23 +0000

[...] the iGeneration, schools shouldn’t block social network sites, we all know benefits of SaaS, but are there more benefits than just more low costs. And if you have been buzzing about Google Buzz, take a look at the special edition of the weekly [...]

Comment on The future of (knowledge) work by Harold Jarche » Some notes on Bureaucracy

Harold Jarche » Some notes on Bureaucracy — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:05:56 +0000

[...] bureaucracies may be in danger from social media, says Peter Evans Greenwood: Social media – as with many of the technologies preceding it – streamlines previously manual [...]

Comment on BPM over promised and under delivered by BPM: high expectations, under-delivered. at achurch & associates

BPM: high expectations, under-delivered. at achurch & associates — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:08:23 +0000

[...] I often find myself in violent agreement with Peter Evans-Greenwood in discussions of business and technology, so it was with a little surprise that I found myself disagreeing with his recent post about Business Process Management. [...]

Comment on BPM over promised and under delivered by Harold Jarche » “Hierarchy is a prosthesis for trust”

Harold Jarche » “Hierarchy is a prosthesis for trust” — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:01:26 +0000

[...] BPM, overpromised & under-delivered: Programming is the automation of the known. Business processes … are the management & anticipation of the unknown – by @pevansgreenwood Since Frederick Taylor’s time we’ve considered business – our businesses – vast machines to be improved. Define the perfect set of tasks and then fit the men to the task. Taylor timed workers, measuring their efforts to determine the optimal (in his opinion) amount of work he could expect from a worker in a single day. The idea is that by driving our workers to follow optimal business processes we can ensure that we minimise costs while improving quality. LEAN and Six Sigma are the most visible of Taylor’s grandchildren, representing generations of effort to incrementally chip away at the inefficiencies and problems we kept finding in our organisations. [...]

Comment on Have we reached peak SI by The SI is dead. Long live the Supplier Integrator

The SI is dead. Long live the Supplier Integrator — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:06:43 +0000

[...] Have we reached peak SI is a splendid post by Peter Evans Greenwood about the changing IT world. On one side of the boxing ring there is the traditional system integrator, on the other side there is a multitude of change agents: [...]

Comment on Have we reached peak SI by Will Kriski

Will Kriski — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Interesting big-picture thinking. I’ve always liked the idea of an outsourced external document exchange hub. I’m an integration contractor (webMethods) and always wondered why clients decide to have a large IT department and ‘reinvent the wheel’, especially since they don’t usually have the expertise. Maybe it’s because they like control or they think they have custom requirements that won’t fit a generic SaaS solution. I don’t see things changing that soon – but these skillsets would probably lead to us moving to these type of SaaS companies. Also BPM is just getting started in some companies (companies I’ve worked for are just starting to contemplate doing it) and they are having to upgrade to webMethods 8+.