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 Using American football metaphors to illustrate business strategies and tactics is a timeworn and tiresome practice. Monday morning quarterbacking is another.
However...
I was glad to see in yesterday's Super Bowl the use of a tactic that has been yammered to death over the past ...Feb. 7, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 675 |
 Look how far we've come with software and how many devices these days rely on generic software to run a multitude of devices. The question comes down to the level of rigor that has been applied in the testing and quality assurance processes, and the relevance of the technology to the ...Jan. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,087 |
 Ask any technology evangelist worth their salt roughly when the ‘next big thing’ is likely to arrive and they will typically say about five-years from now. It’s a safe bet; so-called ‘paradigm shifts’ in technology tend to occur roughly every half decade – or at least they have for the...Jan. 4, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 1,106 |
 About a year ago, I wrote a post about do'ers vs. did'ers, where I highlight that the most important people to identify during an industry transition are those that are doing new things. The people taking chances, learning new things and sharing them back with communities.
Jan. 2, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,040 |
 Look around and be amazed, everything is being re-invented. From the tablet computer to the thermostat, from cars to enterprise software, from incubators to light-bulbs. We are living in an amazing time. Opportunities abound to capitalize on the biggest industrial change since elect...Dec. 22, 2011 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,726 |
 No doubt about it, cloud is winning the popularity contest for the 21st century. Once shunned for irrational concerns, it's become friends with nearly every industry and changed the way countless numbers of organizations do business. There are, however, a few remaining "friends" that t...Dec. 14, 2011 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,439 |
 In 2011, we saw an explosion in devices, data, mass adoption of software-as-a-service, and a hype cycle for cloud-based IT services move through concept to reality. Despite uncertain economies around the world, there is a great deal of excitement and optimism leading into 2012. In 2012...Dec. 13, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,545 |
 Cloud Computing Journal asks a variety of members of the ecosystem, from CIOs to independent consultants to marketeers, about where the i-Technology industry is headed next...here are their views on what's in store in 2012, starting with Nigel Dunn, Principal at Calx Europe – a Europea...Dec. 6, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,791 |
 Imagine you had you a 1,000-square-foot home and in just a few years you added 800 times more belongings to your space? You would need to move into a house that is at least 8,000 square feet. Well, the lid is about to be blown off of storage. According to analysts, unstructured data – ...Nov. 28, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,890 |
 "DIY", "homegrown" or "hand-coded" is the most commonly used method of data and application integration. It's also almost always a terrible idea.
I remember back in the mid/late 1980's talking to IT departments about the concept of a relational database, and why having one on their VA...Nov. 11, 2011 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,810 |
 It's not that I don't like business...I can't stand boring businesses that have no intention of making a dent in the world...or improving it. They are just "getting in the way of the money" with the hope of being chosen. Usually, it's a dearth of creativity/courage, either one - it's ...Nov. 3, 2011 10:57 AM EDT Reads: 850 |
 Steve Yegge, a Google engineer, recently posted a long rant on Google+ about how Amazon does everything wrong and Google does everything right. Probably the most traffic generated for Google+ since they launched, which is why he most likely still has a job. While it was painfully excru...Nov. 3, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,984 |
 Klout.com has taken a lot of heat lately - lack of transparency, revisionist history, lack of opt-out, inability to remove profiles once created, and so on. The list of "social media sins" is quite long.
I've taken this opportunity to grill PROskore's founder/CEO Bill Jula with some ...Nov. 2, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,111 |
 Taking people's privacy away from them without their consent is a BAD BUSINESS DECISION.
Sure, a company might benefit in the very short run, but they will pay the piper for such a decision, and pipers are very expensive.
Klout.com has committed a raft of social media and privacy ...Oct. 31, 2011 03:44 PM EDT Reads: 2,886 |
 While Steve Jobs deserves full credit for incredible achievements not only at NEXT and Pixar, I believe what enabled Steve Jobs to succeed at Apple was his application of the "Apple Brand" to the iPod. Apple Computer always had a cult-like group of followers who were willing to pay a r...Oct. 28, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,391 |
 In building, marketing and selling software, the biggest enemy isn’t the competition. Or “rivals” at work. It's YOU and the people you trust the most.
Your biggest enemies are smart - sometimes blindingly smart. They're confident, and convincing. And incredibly dangerous - because...Oct. 22, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,199 |
 One of the things that struck me was how much innovation was being driven by very small groups of software developers – and how those innovations are enabling even more innovation by lowering the technical and financial barriers to the creation of new software.
There's some very excit...Oct. 13, 2011 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,851 |
 Amazon Fire is small and inexpensive, but is it enough to push Amazon into the forefront of the tablet market?
Tablets are surely changing mobile marketing and the way consumers use the Web. The iPad 2 is the obvious current gold standard, though many other tablets are being released ...Oct. 11, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,587 |
 All over the Internet - "Netflix Having a New Coke Moment" - but are they really?
Netflix is being compared everywhere to Coca-Cola Corporation and their famous "New Coke" fiasco back in the 1980s.
Sam Craig, professor of marketing and international business at the Stern School of Bu...Oct. 11, 2011 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,050 |
 In a few weeks, I'll be writing an article entitled "Software Executives Who Should be Fired". I'm looking for executives at ISV companies who want to be featured in that article. Not everyone can be featured - there are certain requirements. Read on.
I'm looking for executives at c...Oct. 10, 2011 09:31 AM EDT Reads: 1,078 |
 After attending the 2011 TopCoder Open and having a chance to observe, listen, talk and discuss things with all sorts of people, I feel like I got a 360-degree perspective on things. I definitely learned a lot – not just about Crowdsourcing but also about how innovation and creativit...Oct. 7, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,676 |
 We are a society obsessed with labels. When applied to similarly functioning software, a label that "sticks" becomes a category - like Business Intelligence software. Categories are supposed to help us make sense out of things. Good categories do. But some categories just confuse t...Oct. 6, 2011 02:44 PM EDT Reads: 1,350 |
 Data virtualization enables IT to deliver this information to business with greater agility and lower costs than traditional data integration approaches and technologies. But how does data virtualization apply to my situation?
What Is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization? described d...Oct. 6, 2011 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,782 |
 If you are not spending more time understanding your customers—and developing tightly scoped requirements to make great software to meet their real needs, not some imagined “needs mash-up” cobbled together by the squeakiest wheels in your organization—you’re part of the problem, and yo...Oct. 5, 2011 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,386 |
 As someone whose job it is to look after user and customer experience management products, I have an affinity for websites that are available, performing and provide a great customer experience. So imagine my disappointment when I heard the website of a well-known retailer crashed duri...Oct. 5, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,699 |
 Bank of America appears to think that Netflix has done a good job lately - imitating Netflix customer management practices.
Let's face it, Bank of America hasn't exactly been the paradigm of good decisions lately - they purchased Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch, two boat ancho...Oct. 4, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,763 |
 SSAE 16 is one of the most widely known tools for providing assurances to data center customers. It is demanded by customers and there is no substitute for it. And yet, a myth that the SSAE 16 standard is not applicable to the industry persists. This article provide the facts about ...Oct. 4, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,302 |
 We are a society obsessed with labels. When applied to similarly functioning software, a label that "sticks" becomes a category - like Business Intelligence software. Categories are supposed to help us make sense out of things. Good categories do. But some categories just confuse t...Oct. 3, 2011 11:23 AM EDT Reads: 1,181 |
 After talking to dozens and dozens of people and companies, I've come to the conclusion that "Crowdsourcing" is stupid. It's simply useless.
As you might know from some of my previous writing, I've been on a bit of an expedition to uncover the true meaning of "Crowdsourcing". I'm by...Oct. 1, 2011 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,113 |
 After attending the 2011 TopCoder Open and having a chance to observe, listen, talk and discuss things with all sorts of people, I feel like I got a 360-degree perspective on things. I definitely learned a lot – not just about Crowdsourcing but also about how innovation and creativit...Sep. 30, 2011 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,436 |
 The number of vendors vying for the application performance management space has exploded in the last year. Almost every vendor in the space comes to it from a specific strength and has expanded its core offering to provide some level … Sep. 28, 2011 01:39 PM EDT Reads: 1,250 |
 A lot of people have preconceptions about what Crowdsourcing is. What are these common preconceptions? Are they wrong?
If you haven't heard about Crowdsourcing, you will soon. Crowdsourcing is increasingly in the news, and if you take stock in Google Trends, interest in the topic is ...Sep. 28, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,077 |
 Along with most of the nation, I shook my head at Netflix’s recent announcements and thought “what were they thinking?” Netflix has a reputation of paying well above average, and they can afford the best and brightest. How could they do such clumsy ham-handed blundering?
A look at...Sep. 22, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,696 |
 What steps can businesses take to better manage mobile applications and develop their own versions of enterprise app stores?
The skyrocketing popularity of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets has, on one hand, energized users, but on the other hand, it has caused IT and busine...Sep. 22, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,004 |
 I’ve been writing about being customer-driven as a best practice. Today, I’m going to write about a different interpretation of that best practice – driving customers away. Arrogance as a Business Worst Practice. In past months, Netflix has been a poster child for so many "worst practi...Sep. 20, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,601 |
 Will native applications be dominant and preferred form of interaction or will new technologies like HTML5 make web apps preferable than native apps? These are the 2 major ways applications are supported in mobile platform:
Native Application: It is essentially a bundle of software th...Sep. 16, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,068 |
 After the publication of “Crowdsourcing – A Best Practice or a Worst Practice”, I had some back and forth conversations with Jim McKeown and Jack Hughes (Communications Director and TopCoder founder, respectively) from TopCoder on the merits and the shortcomings of the article.
Th...Sep. 13, 2011 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,546 |
 Incorrect, inconsistent, fraudulent and redundant data cost the U.S. economy over $3 Trillion a year - an astounding figure that is over twice the amount of the 2011 Federal Deficit.
In survey after survey, about half of IT executives consistently agree that data quality and data cons...Sep. 10, 2011 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,772 |
 The IT industry is fascinating due to its ever-changing technology and markets.
But like a pointillist painting, sometimes the best way to understand the big picture is to step back a bit.
When I do that today, what do I see?
Big data has made a big bang with massive "Web-scale" use...Sep. 9, 2011 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,573 |
 The adoption of technology now seems to be moving at the volition of the savvy consumer, not the IT director.
The past several years have ushered in a changing set of expectations from users as they engage with technology and services as both consumers and workers. The sense is that t...Aug. 27, 2011 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,098 |
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