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The Van Halen brown M&M anecdote wasn’t the only interesting piece in the March issue of Fast Company.  I also found a good example of "optimization for innovationâ€?, which I first wrote about on the Business Ecology Initiative blog.  The... Read More..

As I mentioned in my 2010 plans, one of my projects this year is writing and advocacy for the OMG’s Business Ecology Initiative (BEI).  This morning, we launched the new Business Ecology Initiative blog, and I published the following overview... Read More..

Earlier this month, I made my first and only prediction for 2010, that we would (finally) see the “Rise of Event Processingâ€?.  Often, when I speak of Event Processing, I refer to a broader context of Active Information and (when... Read More..

Session Abstract: “IT has undergone major change, but the pace of change that lies in the immediate future has never been experienced. New platforms driven by cloud computing, new sources of infrastructure and applications solutions, the changing technology stack and... Read More..

I don't typically engage in predictions, but here's mine for 2010, fresh from my tweet stream: 2010: Event Processing transcends niche status, to well-recognized & adopted business technique for real-time visibility & responsiveness. I can list tons of reasons why,... Read More..

The WSJ has published a Business Insight Interview with MIT’s Peter Weill on IT Savvy, his (excellent) recent book, co-authored with Jeanne Ross.  The interview covers a few of the main ideas of the book, standardization for innovation, IT as... Read More..

This week, I've started up the Cloud Watch section of Elemental Cloud Computing.  Cloud Watch items are snippets from cloud computing industry news, business and technical publications, and thought leaders.  These snippets may be as short as a 140-character tweet,... Read More..

I just posted this on SOA Consortium Insights.  This is the final evolution of the SOA Drivers diagram I first posted on elemental links a year ago (more or less). A frequent question to the SOA Consortium is “What are... Read More..

The current edition of Wired has an interesting article entitled "The Good Enough Revolution".  The article highlights several successful products - from Pure Digital's Flip Video Camera to the Predator drone aircraft - where the success was due to a... Read More..

The July/August issue of the Harvard Business Review has a feature by McKinsey & Company on 10 Trends You Have to Watch.  The premise is after a year in turmoil, business executives are starting to look towards the future.  However,... Read More..