I am looking forward to 2013 in the ECM market more than in the last five years. The thing that interests me more than anything else is change and this year promises to be anything but dull. The status quo is not just boring - it is dangerous. What follows are my thoughts on the major trends... Continue Reading →
2013 – Random Tech Predictions
In addition to the new year's ECM trend post I decided to write a separate list of random tech predictions for those with shorter attention spans. Some are serious. Some less so. You can decide which is which. Google Glass has people expecting advances in wearable computing. Add electronic vision correction to VR and now it... Continue Reading →
Bloomberg’s War on Soda & IT Diets
Mayor Bloomberg announced last week his latest quixotic crusade against gravity challenged Americans (i.e. fat people) by proposing a ban on 32+oz. soft drinks. In keeping, or perhaps in spite of his tech-business background, this silly idea is rooted in the same kind of simpleminded dogoodery that IT organizations have used for years to justify... Continue Reading →
If Healthcare Were Software
The Supreme Court hearings on the Patient Protection and Affordability Act (Obamacare) last week fascinated me. It is one of the few news stories in recent memory that requires you to think rather than just react. In following the topic, I have tied to compare and look for patterns in other areas of my life... Continue Reading →
Employees Are Not Consumers – They are Comrades
Thought leaders (hate that term) are all abuzz with the consumerisation of IT. What they mean is that the modern workforce now has the expectation that their technology will be as good as the stuff they use at home. At this point that fact is fairly obvious. We must be careful though not to fall... Continue Reading →
Listen to Your Own Plumbers
Ron Miller's piece on Changing the IT Plumber's Image yesterday was excellent. Most businesses do not see the business value their own IT organizations can and SHOULD be providing. Instead of being seen as the experts who can expand the business through new technology, IT is just somebody you call when your virtual toilet backs... Continue Reading →
Responding to Jeroen’s 2012 Surprises
EMC IIG Chief Architect Jeroen VanRotterdam suggests five things that may surprise us in 2012. It was a very thought provoking post and you should check it out. I had a few ideas in response but it was a little long for the comments so I thought I would post them here. I'll recap each... Continue Reading →
Random Thought – Virtual Juries
So I am stuck - uh I mean - happily serving on jury duty this week. The judges and clerk of the court are lightheartedly apologetic about the time we have to spend waiting around but at least they have provided free WIFI to take up the time. Good use of my tax dollars but... Continue Reading →
GooglePlus and the Diet Coke Rocket Car
I am ashamed that this is my first and probably only post on GooglePlus. Not since the Diet Coke and Mentos thing or Google Wave (hint hint) have so many people wanted to try something they saw on the internet. Yet last week I took an informal completely unscientific poll on Twitter and though the sample... Continue Reading →
When Was Your Last Technology “Refresher”
An assumption that one can make from our blog title is that I’m a big guy. And one big assumption I made is that I learned everything we need to about exercise when I got out of high school. No I’m not talking about how the latest elliptical machine works but the most basics of human exercise, running. As... Continue Reading →
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