Is Social Media in general (and mobility in particular) a bubble or revolution? Is it a a powerful and disruptive force that will transform governments […]
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A prediction: many companies will start shedding IT architects in the next six to eighteen months
Business is intensely competitive these days. Under such intense pressure strategy usually breaks down into two things: do more of whatever is creating value, and […]
Continue readingMichelangelo’s approach to workflow discovery
Take any existing workflow — any people driven business process — and I expect that most of the tasks within it could best be described […]
Continue readingTaxonomies 1, Semantic Web (and Linked Data) 0
I’m not a big fan of Semantic Web{{1}}. For something that has been around for just over ten years — and which has been aggressively […]
Continue readingVacuum flasks: fulfilling a need
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks in the House Secrets exhibit. James Dewar invented the vacuum flask in 1892 to keep laboratory gases cold. […]
Continue readingWhat I like about jet engines
Rolls-Royce{{1}} (the engineering company, not the car manufacturer) is an interesting firm. From near disaster in the 70s, when the company was on the brink […]
Continue readingBPM is not a programming challenge
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 […]
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 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 readingWhat is the role of government in a Web 2.0 world?
What will be the role of government in a post Web 2.0 world? I doubt it’s what a lot of us predict, given society’s poor track record […]
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