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…
This week I have learned: The deep reward in doing the random stuff that I do is once in a while being thanked for making a difference. That's happened twice in two days. ERP is deeply misunderstood. Still. The Freerangers needs a new injection of attendees. Even though I write (here) habitually, letting The Book … Continue reading Weeknote 313: Leading Edges
And so the debate continues to rage about the UK's exit from the European Union. In the last 24 hours, the incomprehensibly complicated nature of the UK's constitutional structure has become illustrated with court rulings about the primacy of parliament in our set up. A judges' ruling on the rule of law gets painted as … Continue reading The European lobster pot
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
We are all going to be replaced by robots, right? We are at last on the cusp of the leisure society or, by another analysis, about to enter a new era of serfdom where we are all beholden to our Silicon Valley/Chinese/robot overlords. Or are we? A very similar narrative played out in the 1970s … Continue reading Generating untold demand
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