There's three questions you need to ask yourself before you invest a large chunk of cash in some enterprise application: Can I use something, rather […]
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Business is like a train…
The following analogy popped up the other day in an email discussion with a friend. Running a business is a bit like being the Fat […]
Continue readingIs the market for IT services and solutions shrinking or growing?
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 […]
Continue readingWith cloud computing, the world is not flat
Does location matter? Or, put another way, is the world no longer flat? Many cloud and SaaS providers work under the assumption that where we […]
Continue readingConsulting doesn’t work any more. We need to reinvent it.
What does it mean to be in consulting these days? The consulting model that’s evolved over the last 30 – 50 years seems to be […]
Continue readingReducing costs is not the only benefit of cloud computing & SaaS
The wisdom of the crowd seems to have decided that both cloud computing and its sibling SaaS are cost plays. You engage a cloud or […]
Continue readingBalancing our two masters
We seem to be torn between two masters. On one hand we’re driven to renew our IT estate, consolidating solutions to deliver long term efficiency […]
Continue readingApplications let us differentiate, not!
Being involved in enterprise IT, we tend to think that the applications we build, install and maintain will provide a competitive advantage to the companies […]
Continue readingManaging technology, not applications
We’re getting it all wrong—we focused on managing the technology delivery process rather than the technology itself. Where do business process outsourcing (BPO), software as […]
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