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Enterprise UX in an “age of invisible design” 26 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm
I was reading this Wired quote about Dieter Rams' philosophy about product design: "It doesn’t draw attention to itself; it merely allows users to accomplish their tasks with the maximal amount of eff...
The underappreciated art of technology supply chain management 22 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
Ever since I researched these topics for The New Technology Elite, I have continued to marvel how complex technology supply chains have become: a) The need to demand forecast and plan for launch of se...
The sum of all cloud fears - and dreams 20 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
This snarky comment in a Seattle Times blog summarizes the stability and security concerns people continue to have about cloud computing “With the three largest cloud software companies (Amazon, Googl...
Category "Killers" 19 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
I was part of a group of analysts Gartner started hiring in the mid 90s to expand their business applications coverage. It launched the Administrative Application Services (AAS), Customer Relational M...
The curious case of IBM's Watson 14 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
Bill Kutik announces IBM's Watson will be at his HR Technology show. It is positioned thus in a LinkedIn update he posted: "Watson is not connected to the Internet. It does not research the questions....
Code Halos High Praise and Furrowed Brows 12 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Final post in a series by Ben Pring who co-leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. In laying out how “Code Halos” – aka our digital fingerprints –are changing the competitive rules in fast di...
HPs Data HAVEn 9 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
I was invited to be part of a panel at a HP Vertica event in Boston this week. It was their first major user conference and I expected most of the focus to be on their technology. But the icons...
Innovating IT Risk Management 7 Aug 2013 | 12:59 pm
A sad truth in our industry is CIOs don't often get fired for not being innovative. But they do get fired for major data or security breach or business continuity failure. In spite of that it is a bit...
What have you done for me lately? 6 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
This article about IBM's large contract with customer Bharti Airtel in India provides a nice microcosm of the churn happening around legacy software and outsourcing contracts. Bharti has moved away fr...
The Hereke of innovation 5 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm
Some of the nice takeaways from my time in the Middle East in the 80s were hand woven rugs including a silk Hereke. These Turkish delights are well known for their very tight weaves - the one below ha...
