January 2007 Archives

Earlier today, The Open Group formally announced its new professional association for enterprise architects. I had the opportunity to speak with Allen Brown, The Open Group's CEO, last week about the association (AOGEA), enterprise architects as city planners, business architecture,... Read More..

Edge Perspectives with John Hagel "Diverse perspectives...have a dark side - they lead to the discovery of lots of possible alternatives." "...generates significant friction. We have come to believe in the business world that friction is bad but, in... Read More..

GigaOM » Bankruptcy: The Opportunity to Fail "it's not a coincidence that in the world of technology, having some failures under your belt is actually a badge of honor. It means you've been around the block -- you've made... Read More..

Timing, market key to Maine's fund of funds - Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology: we need this:"Maine's software and information technology industry association, is putting the finishing touches on a bill that would create a... Read More..

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/012307-google-apps.html Risky:"Information security, as critical as it is, needs to be taken care of by organizations who live and die by it, who invest the money, time, resources and staff. Why should every company in the world have to... Read More..

Irving Wladawsky-Berger: A Key Trend for 2007 - and Beyond "I believe that highly visual interfaces and virtual worlds will become increasingly important for interacting with applications, communicating with people and engaging in commerce, - what we in IBM... Read More..

JT posted a challenge on his blog, asking what folks would do if given (an extra) $9 million to invest in your IT shop. What would you target? People, Process, Technology? Jump over there and let him know.... Read More..

Insight and outlook, Part 8: Why and how IBM architects became architects 13 well known IBM architects share how they came to be architects "Some did so by design. Others stumbled upon their professions after trying other roles." Me,... Read More..

WP: Living life at $7.25 an hour - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com this is a great article on the realities of living at, and paying, minimum wage. (tags: economy)... Read More..

Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote - Engadget great pictures of the new iPhone. scroll down to "9:42am". calling it a 'phone' doesn't appear to do it justice. (tags: apple iphone)... Read More..

James Governor's Monkchips » Blog Archive » On Jon Udell, freedom, talent management and the New Patronage economy great post by James Governor on the new patronage economy. as anne z says "destined to be a classic" (tags: redmonk... Read More..

Customer Intelligence: Event-Processing Alphabet Soup this article (IMO) misses the point of ESP and CEP, it's not about delivering data in a "right time manner" to traditional business intelligence and apps, it's about the business opportunities/problems that require real-time... Read More..

In the January 2007 issue of BPTrends, David S. Frankel of SAP, points out commonalities in leading IT and business thinking regarding loose coupling, orchestration, and eroding silos. Besides doing a nice job summarizing leading business thinking, David provides an... Read More..

BBC NEWS | Technology | $100 laptop project launches 2007 "In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to... Read More..