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Business Continuity, Olympic style
People are beginning to talk about “keeping business running in London during the Olympics” or words to that effect. I’ll try and track some of the most helpful commentary. The Olympic planners...
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After a long gap …
Apologies to readers and followers who may reasonably have thought this blog had died. It’s been several months. Not that things haven’t been happening, but I’ve been verging on over-committed in other...
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Links for Enterprise Agility
I’m facilitating an event tomorrow on enterprise agility. This is an IT forum, so I’m expecting that an early task will be to clarify three aspects. First: figuring out whether your overall enterprise...
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Suddenly, it’s personal
Information that comes through the social network isn’t always welcome. At my desk last evening, I received a call (in the UK!) from a New York Times reporter working on a Hurricane Sandy story. And so...
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Glyndebourne opera takes on social media
It’s not often the arts feature in an IT commentary. But Glyndebourne, the UK’s premier opera company and venue, is tackling issues of social media in a new community opera. I’ll declare an interest:...
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Season’s greetings
Happy Christmas and a great New Year to everyone … New Year resolution will be to get back to posting stuff more regularly and maybe catch up on some of the things I’ve had to miss in the last months....
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Some Open Source notes
In my persona as an Associate Lecturer of the Open University, I promised some brief notes on Open Source software to help a colleague who’s leading a Staff Development workshop in a couple of weeks’...
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Glyndebourne’s Imago arrives
Some while ago I posted a note about Glyndebourne’s 2013 Community Opera, Imago. It’s staged this week; tickets are still available for some of the performances – at “ordinary”, not High Season,...
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ICT professional standards in the UK: what a mess
I teach a couple of Open University courses. In one of them, I’ve just got to the point where we encourage the students to work through the industry skills frameworks. The aim is to benchmark their...
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Benchmarking: sources
I’m facilitating tomorrow a Corporate IT Forum discussion on twenty-first century benchmarking. It’s a wide topic. This post is a set of links and some comments, based on the InformationSpan database...
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Facebook faces up: whose reputation?
Facebook made the mainstream news again last night. Behind the news there’s an interesting twist. In brief: Facebook is being forced (as the commentators put it) to face up to issues of inappropriate...
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Enterprise grade public cloud: IDC’s take
I’m on an AT&T webcast relating to public cloud infrastructure and its growth. Allow that this is primarly a US-focussed perspective. It’s AT&T sponsored, but delivered by IDC. It’s being...
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Working with others (1)*: feeling pleased with myself
Until I re-retire in another three months, I’m teaching an Open University first year technology course that covers the gamut of information technology from programming through online social issues to...
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Working with others (2)
On Thursday (4th July) I’m facilitating a Corporate IT Forum event called Collaborating with Third Parties (the working title, reflected in its URL, was “Beyond the Firewall”). As it happens this is...
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Digital Natives and security
I don’t normally post based on what I learn professionally in a Corporate IT Forum event, because we operate under Chatham House rules. But what follows is in the public domain and I’ve researched it...
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Overdue update: Gartner blog index
I’ve finally done a full update on the Gartner Blogs index published on informationspan.com. There are three significant changes (as well as the normal turnover of analysts). Gartner have introduced...
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Ray Wang’s Constellation reaches the next stage
In 2010 we reported the inauguration of R “Ray” Wang’s new venture, Constellation Research. Constellation launched with a dozen analysts, Ray himself having left Forrester and stayed a short while with...
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Business Process Improvement
Working for GlaxoSmithKline IT, after the 2000 merger, developed my familiarity with business process improvement (small letters) and with Six Sigma methods and metrics. I would never call myself an...
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Even lightweight articles can mislead …
Today’s inbox flags a short report in TechRepublic by Eric Eckel looking (yet again) at the Total Cost of Ownership differential between a current iMac and a midrange Windows PC (Windows 7, not Windows...
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Insight providers and market evaluation
This is a slightly extended version of a response in LinkedIn to Michael Rasmussen, who has published some thought (“a rant”) about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. MQ is a highly influential and long...
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