PEG – Page 23 – Trying to understand the intersection between business and technology

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. […]

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People don’t like change. (Or do they?)

by peg2010-05-192010-06-14 No Comments

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 […]

Technology and its malcontents

Tea bags: the unexpected

by peg2010-05-162019-01-16 No Comments

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 […]

Decisions are more important than data

by peg2010-05-132010-05-29 7 comments

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 […]

Strategy

Complexity isn’t (at least in enterprise IT)

by peg2010-05-112010-05-11 No Comments

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 […]

Innovation [2010-05-10]

by peg2010-05-10 No Comments

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 […]

Technology and its malcontents

Penicillin: the unexpected

by peg2010-05-072019-01-16 1 comment

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 […]

Strategy

Having too much SOA is a bad thing (and what we might do about it)

by peg2010-05-062010-05-04 No Comments

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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Is the market for IT services and solutions shrinking or growing?

by peg2010-05-042010-05-07 2 comments

Here’s an interesting and topical question: is the market for enterprise IT services (SI, BPO, advisory et al) growing or shrinking? I’m doing the rounds […]

Innovation [2010-04-26]

by peg2010-04-262010-04-27 No Comments

Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. A special report on innovation […]