There should be a word to describe words that sound like they should be onomatopoeic but aren't. Top of my list of these nonomatopoeic words would be Fungible. It sounds like an adjective that could be applied to describe the properties of the caulk materials that builders use to fill in gaps around woodwork. "Ooh, … Continue reading Fungible
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I was pointed yesterday to an article on Harvard Business Review that talked about how machine intelligence was about to change the world. It was interesting enough, although talked a great deal about MI being a "predictive" technology. As I've expressed many times, the human desire for sages of the future is deep and a … Continue reading Plus ça change
Over the past few weeks I've been getting a lot of social love from employees of Oracle the world over. A video interview that I did for CIO.co.uk a little earlier in the autumn has been tweeted dozens and dozens of times by people working for the Larry Ellison Relational Behemoth. Well, I say "people". I'm actually not so sure. This … Continue reading The anti-social
There is a truth held dear in traditional IT management that with scale come economies of scale. In the old world of on-premises technology in server rooms that were run exclusively for the company consuming the technology, this might have been the case. Costs nestled in the price of running the infrastructure plus the costs of … Continue reading Cloudy economics
Last night I was lucky to be invited to speak to the 360° Club at a hotel overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral. here's roughly what I said… So here is my starting proposition: “You’re less likely to be disrupted if you are in sync with your customers’ view of your value proposition.” I think that most … Continue reading Ripe for disruption
Words fail me. Next week: realities bite.
A couple of unrelated conversations in the past week... At the LEF executive forum event last week I heard the London Business School's Rob Goffee speak, and the one abiding memory is how he explored the idea that organisations need to move beyond the idea of employee engagement and motivation if organisations want to be … Continue reading We are all suppliers now…
As consumers, we tend to like to buy products and services that are the sum of their parts. The history of industrialisation has been one of businesses providing bundles of things together in ways that makes the end product or service much more valuable than if we bought the individual elements in isolation. Take, for … Continue reading Time to get unbundled
This week I have learned: the podcast has already generated some interesting new interest an entity relationship model still has the power to unpick a circumstance quicker than many other methods pipelines are things to be managed by oil companies. Sales is much more like bagatelle don't catch up with a friend for a while … Continue reading Weeknote 312: last of the old guard
Microsoft yesterday made some big new product announcements, with updates to Windows, and a new range of Surface devices. At the moment I'm involved in a project looking at providing core technology refresh in big corporate organisations, and I struggled to see anything that would have sent a message that Windows is a business-focused, cost … Continue reading Monetising legacy
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