There's a lot of debate about what is cloud and what isn't. So I've been thinking about ways of classifying that allow discussion around the ambiguity, and inspired by a regular item from the BBC's Top Gear show, I give you the Cloud Report. Four levels of classification - - Land-based are products and services … Continue reading The Cloud Report
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Economies of scale aren't an inevitability. It's a subject I've written about in the past, and one that I've been putting my mind to again recently. In particular, how collaborative technologies can help alleviate the diseconomies of scale that can so often occur when a company increases its headcount. From personal experience this is the … Continue reading Scaling
Project achievements this week included: - sign off (in principal) for printing budget - slowly ironing out the (not insubstantial creases) in the AD work - proposals received for the Yellow Card replacement... - ...and for consulting on the Facilitating Conversations initiative - wrapped up the last of the re-cabling And also - quality time … Continue reading Weeknote 37 – Tired and emotional…
For those of us of a certain age, a remarkable period in British technology history occurred during our formative years in the 1980s. Spearheaded by the work of two electronics companies, Sinclair Research and Acorn, many of us had our first experiences if computing on one of the devices home grown in the UK by … Continue reading The British microcomputer legacy
I had lunch today with an old friend who last year sold the company that he and a few partners built up over the past ten years to a big corporate. They are now experiencing what it is like to with in a big corporate after years of being an SME. One of the things … Continue reading For the corporate good
There has been significant PR activity in the past few days as HP have announced a series of mobile/tablet products based on the webOS that they acquired with the purchase of Palm last year. Punditry is the work of fools, so I feel well qualified to comment... Back in November I saw the head of … Continue reading Mobile punditry
An interesting conversationette with @coe62 on Twitter this morning, prompted by a link to a story about how the government is wasting money by not killing projects, and a question about why people in organisations find it so difficult to end failing initiatives. The public sector for years had been villified by the press for … Continue reading Killing projects
Following on from my last update back in September, here's a quick note about things that I'm currently using: Since September, I've moved from an HTC to a Samsung Galaxy S. Probably the biggest difference is the add-on software (that came bundled) calledSwype - and at last I've found happiness with a touch screen. I've … Continue reading Even more current stuff I like
A week or so ago I made the decision to move backup on my home PC into the Cloud. This coincided with moving our home ADSL onto an uncapped tariff, and an growing concern that at some point something about my home PC and its two internal drives would break. I did a bit of … Continue reading Online backup
I did my degree in sociology. There, said it. Cue people from the UK of a certain age chorusing "You've got an ology? You'll be a scientist!". There are a few things that have served me well as a result of studying this much-maligned subject. The study of culture, for example, has been invaluable in … Continue reading The power of open questions
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