Whilst sitting and having a quite read the other day I happened across a thought which made me pause: Not only may our natural capacities, […]
Continue readingPopsicle: a chance discovery
At the age of eleven on a winter’s afternoon in 1905, Frank Epperson left his drink on the back porch overnight. It was a fruit […]
Continue readingCloud computing’s long game
For as long as we can remember, technology’s role has been to support business. Identify your target market, product and goals, map out the required […]
Continue readingThe top ten posts of 2010 are …
And the top ten posts from the last year — as recorded by Popularity Contest — are: Innovation linkage Peter Drucker’s seven sources of innovation […]
Continue readingInnovation [2010-11-29]
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. John Sculley On Steve Jobs: […]
Continue readingWhy Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business Design might be of marginal utility to most of us
It seems that I’ve been pulled into the storm that Martijn{{1}} started{{2}}, and as I live somewhere between the Enterprise 2.0 / Social Business Design […]
Continue readingThe myth of the inevitability of social organisations
In the rush for the new-new thing we’re confusing the means with the end. Business – as currently practiced – has been built around the […]
Continue readingThe Scoop: The future of software
Neill Rose-Innes (CIO @ Mortgage Choice) and myself are on Mark Jones’ The Scope this week. The enterprise software market is growing again as cloud […]
Continue readingHow to cope with an IT transformation
Once started, an IT transformation is hard to stop. Such huge efforts – often involving investments of hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars […]
Continue readingA 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 […]
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