And the top ten posts from the last year — as recorded by Popularity Contest — are: Knowledge Workers in the British Raj Problems and […]
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Outsourcing in an increasingly complex world
Pressure on margins is driving organizations to increasingly rationalize and externalize supporting functions as they search for more efficient and flexible delivery approaches.
Continue readingIs Salesforce.com already legacy IT?
The more I think about it, the more I feel that we need to rethink what “application” means. The IT industry – and therefore “application” […]
Continue readingDeath of the shopping mission
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 […]
Continue readingHave we reached peak SI
Have we hit the peak for systems integrators (SIs) (just as we appear to have reached “peak oil”), and it’s all downhill from here? While […]
Continue readingBPM over promised and under delivered
One Saturday night the other week I was typing away on a book that I’m working on (probably called The new instability. How cloud computing, […]
Continue readingGood advice
There’s a few bits of good advice that I’ve stumbled across during my time, and which I’ve sprinkled in some of my posts. I thought […]
Continue readingIt’s effectiveness, and not ideas or execution, which is the strongest determinant for success
We’re told that execution is everything. While a good idea might be useful, execution is seen as the factor that will determine the success or […]
Continue readingOn the process of writing
I happen to have set that sentence down in the old, slow way by hand. If I had used a computer, I might have got […]
Continue readingSelling into the new whitespaces
Organic growth is a distant memory for many companies. Markets in the first world are mature and the whitespace they contain has already been claimed. […]
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