One of the contrarian voices in enterprise use of Web 2.0 technologies has often been doubt of the value of the “Wisdom of Crowds.” That is, an apprehension that the input from widespread collaboration may have only marginal value toward the development of the product or initiative, or even worse- will be a waste of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'General'
Web 2.0 Collaboration Support from Chinese Government
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · General, Internet, Technology, Web 2.0
Tags:Collaboration·Hu Jintao·Internet·Internet in China·Web 2.0
Let’s Build that Data Center Again!
June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, General, IS Security, IT Roadmaps
In a recent interview with CIO Insight, Kenneth Brill of the Uptime Institute posits that the growth of demand for data processing is likely to cause enterprises to repeat data center construction projects every four to eight years. What?! Do it again?
Tags:Cloud Computing·Data Center·Data Center Planning·Data Center Power·Uptime Institute
Multiple Skins: Still a Problem for Social Networking Sites
June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Business, General, IS Security, Internet, Technology, Web 2.0
I’ve written before about how the various aspects of our lives drive us to use multiple online personas, and that this is a shortcoming of social networking sites today. What I’m referring to here is that we all wear multiple “skins,” and to represent these personas online one needs separate profiles on separate social networking [...]
Tags:Friendfeed·Social Networks·socialstream·Twitter·Web 2.0
Jayshree Ullal Departs Cisco
May 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Data Center, General, Technology
I learned this morning that Jayshree Ullal has decided to leave Cisco to pursue other opportunities. Given that I find myself often working with the folks at Cisco on strategic technology initiatives, it makes me sad to see Jayshree move on.
On several occasions I had the pleasure of working with Jayshree on forward looking technologies under [...]
Tags:AON·Cisco·Data Center·Data Center 3.0·VFrame DC
Corporate Core Values: Weathervane for enterprise profiling
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, General, IT Assessments, IT Roadmaps
How much thought do you give to your company’s corporate core values? Are you able to say (without looking them up on the website) what they are? Once you look at them again, to what extent do you think those values reflect the behavior of the company to its Customers? What about to its employees?
It [...]
Tags:Business·Corporate Governance·IT/Business Alignment
Email is Dead! Long Live Email!
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, General, Web 2.0
I am firmly in the camp that sees email as an outdated technology, and one for which the utility for current day business processes is waning at best. I have seen commentary from the Web 2.0 community saying similar things, but I decided to send an unsolicited query out into cyberspace to see how broadly [...]
Tags:Advocate Networks·Web 2.0
Chickens and Eggs
April 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, General, Web 2.0
I lead into this discussion using the well known adage that says, “Which came first- The chicken or the egg?” Granted, it’s a bit trite, but many a glass of wine has been tossed back over discussions about cause, effect, cause.
Recent developments in physics are re-confirming what has been told by ancient metaphysics for millennia. [...]
Tags:Advocate Networks·Internet·Web 2.0
Skills for Success in the (early) 21st Century
March 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, General
A very good friend of mine, Vaughan Merlyn, operates a blog called IT Organization Circa 2017. If you’ve not had the chance to visit it, I suggest you take the time to do so. Vaughan is a very insightful and clear thinker. In addition, he is a rock musician extraordinaire. In one of his blog [...]
Tags:Leadership
I love the work I do for my Customers
March 13th, 2008 · No Comments · General
I am passionate about the work that I do for my Customers. I work as an IT/Business consultant, for medium to large companies across a variety of vertical markets. Though each of my Customers has unique businesses and unique concerns, in all cases there is a need to progressively and opportunistically close the alignment gap [...]
