http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/ My blog focuses on agile organizational design and related information management technologies such as cloud computing, net.working, social collaboration, data integration and meshing, business insights and code-free applications design. en-us Copyright 2012 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:51:15 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.zdnet.com/blog/feeds/100-brains-tibcos-ram-menon-on-the-future-of-enterprise-social-networking/3230TIBCO has become one of the thought-leaders in event-driven business and data integration making them ideally positioned to move ahead with a social operating system for the enterprise. Like Encanvas and Squork, TIBCO focuses on the ability of social networking... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/100-brains-tibcos-ram-menon-on-the-future-of-enterprise-social-networking-zdnet.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/100-brains-tibcos-ram-menon-on-the-future-of-enterprise-social-networking-zdnet.php Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:51:15 -0500 iantomlin http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/05/chinese-social-networks-virtually-out-earn-facebook-and-myspace-a-market-analysis/... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/chinese-social-networks-virtually-out-earn-facebook-and-myspace-a-market-analysis.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/chinese-social-networks-virtually-out-earn-facebook-and-myspace-a-market-analysis.php Social Operating Systems Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:23:50 -0500 iantomlin http://venturebeat.com/2010/04/07/china%E2%80%99s-top-4-social-networks-renren-kaixin001-qzone-and-51-com/If you wanted my best guess as to who we would see as the next generation of 'Apples, IBMs and Microsofts' - I would say it's likely to be one of the companies on this list. Bear in mind the... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/chinas-top-four-social-networks-renren-kaixin001-qzone-and-51com-venturebeat.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/chinas-top-four-social-networks-renren-kaixin001-qzone-and-51com-venturebeat.php Social Operating Systems Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:47:41 -0500 iantomlin Good to know that Novell is aking the whole area of social collaboration seriously.  Given its existing portfolio of workgroup productivity and infrastructure tools, Novell instantly becomes one of the top 10 players in the Social Operating Systems market.  What... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/novell-introduces-beta-version-of-vibe-collaboration-platform---news---business-intelligence.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/novell-introduces-beta-version-of-vibe-collaboration-platform---news---business-intelligence.php Social Operating Systems Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:25:35 -0500 iantomlin There was a time when businesses could hope to differentiate themselves through their website design to bring a competitive advantage.  Not anymore.  A decade ago websites were seen to have the power to wow site visitors and bring them to... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/business-websites---still-a-competitive-differentiator.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/11/business-websites---still-a-competitive-differentiator.php Enterprise IT Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:21:59 -0500 iantomlin Link to White PaperIs it realistic to consider a cloud strategy for core business systems like ERP and financials?  I think the answer is probably yes 'at some point in the future' but not for at least a couple of... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/10/taking-the-first-steps-into-the-cloud.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/10/taking-the-first-steps-into-the-cloud.php Enterprise Architecture Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:58:43 -0500 iantomlin It's always interesting to read analyst forecasts of market size and growth - but I actually think this one is pretty well grounded.Cloud security is going to be a hot topic in IT over the next few years.I think many... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/10/cloud-security-market-to-hit-15-billion-by-2015.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/10/cloud-security-market-to-hit-15-billion-by-2015.php Cloud Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:13:22 -0500 iantomlin It's always interesting to read analyst forecasts of market size and growth - but I actually think this one is pretty well grounded.Cloud security is going to be a hot topic in IT over the next few years.I think many... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/10/cloud-security-market-to-reach-15-billion-in-next-five-years---darkreading.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/10/cloud-security-market-to-reach-15-billion-in-next-five-years---darkreading.php Extended Enterprise Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:07:25 -0500 iantomlin For those business professionals who are keen to get a handle on what cloud computing is and why it might be relevant to their business I've put together a very crude list in this most basic of white papers produced... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/10/cloud-9-nine-reasons-to-take-the-cloud-seriously.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/10/cloud-9-nine-reasons-to-take-the-cloud-seriously.php Cloud Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:12:34 -0500 iantomlin At times when organizations need to find smarter ways of working to cut costs, they're often frustrated by the lack of effective software applications to support these new ways of working. The long-tail of demand for new applications created by... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/09/delivering-the-most-economically-advantageous-software-apps.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/09/delivering-the-most-economically-advantageous-software-apps.php enterprise mashups Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:38:58 -0500 iantomlin Believe it or not, Google Maps has only been around for a decade. It feels like it's always been around. When Google Maps arrived it changed the software world in a number of ways. Firstly, it made digital maps accessible... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/08/mashups-and-maps-changing-the-rules-of-geo-spatial-intelligence.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/08/mashups-and-maps-changing-the-rules-of-geo-spatial-intelligence.php Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:17:04 -0500 iantomlin WSJ - Google Kills Wave ArticleThe announcement by Google that it is axing Wave isn't perhaps too surprising. It brings into question how mature a technology needs to be before you let it lose into an expectant market. I'm left... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/08/google-killing-wave---where-did-google-wave-go-wrong.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/08/google-killing-wave---where-did-google-wave-go-wrong.php Social Office Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:25:59 -0500 iantomlin Gen Y's green demands for the workplaceI'm busy writing a White Paper to explain to organizational change managers what a social office is and why it matters - so I was delighted to come across this research that's been published... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/07/gen-y-and-the-workplace.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/07/gen-y-and-the-workplace.php Social Office Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:05:13 -0500 iantomlin This is an interesting article that comes from a worldwide survey of 512 IT professionals and finds surprisingly that guys and girls under 30 want to use Facebook and Twitter at work. Some surprise! Perhaps the bigger unasked question... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/07/survey-finds-employees-using-unsafe-social-networking-application-at-work.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/07/survey-finds-employees-using-unsafe-social-networking-application-at-work.php Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:24:25 -0500 iantomlin I've just seen something you don't see everyday. It was a demo by one of my colleagues of the new Encanvas Template Designer. What it does is to enable a business analyst to design the user interface of a 'live'... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/06/now-business-analysts-can-design-portals-and-websites-in-minutes.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agilization/2010/06/now-business-analysts-can-design-portals-and-websites-in-minutes.php Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:47:01 -0500 iantomlin