Consumerization is a term that was coined by Doug Neal of CSC to describe the fact that enterprise IT is being disrupted by the combination of tech savvy employees who make high levels of personal investment in IT and have access to a whole raft of web 2.0 applications via...
Application virtualization is going to be very big, in essence it allows you to deploy applications on Windows clients just by copying them onto the machine. The configuration of the machine remains unchanged because the virtualization platform isolates the application, by intercepting all calls to the registry and to files...
I must admit that I rarely listen to or read national or international news, I find the signal to noise ration to be very low, I pick up a little from the Saturday paper and from my family and friends. Of course I scan a lot of focussed blog entries...
Rod describes in this post the importance of posting content in HTML. He describes his experience of posting an interesting article as a PDF and then later as HTML. The PDF didn’t generate much traffic, when he converted to HTML the traffic went wild. I must admit that I downloaded...
There are many ways to automatically paste information into documents, but if you are a Lotus Notes user this is a very useful utility. It allows you to click a toolbar button and select from a list of clips which get pasted into you document. The best things about it...
The way you deliver applications to your clients is the fundamental issue of debate in this article. Web client, Server Based Computing, Smart Clients, Thin Client computing, Consolidated Client Architectures are all terms that are used and misused in this context. This article attempts to just cover the key concepts, talk to...
I find Maslow’s hierarchy of needs incredibly useful. It provides a very simple framework for thinking about motivation, and motivation impacts almost everything I do at work. I have a version of the hierarchy that I am developing for the services we deliver to customers and it’s quite instructive because...
Dave Pollard’s blog is consistently excellent, in this post he talks about the fact that people are often “Too Busy Being Unproductive to Learn to Be Productive”. Just read this snip: … most people don’t learn to use these aids unless they either stumble on them themselves, or they are...
I recently complained about the blog Microsoft FUD vs IBM Customer Value, on a more positive note this blog hits that mark for me, its an analysis of the strengths of Notes/Domino, to make it even better I would like to see 20+ comments critiquing the analysis. For Microsoft I see well...
Making decisions is getting increasingly difficult. I work part-time in product management and am increasingly convinced that one of my key roles is to help people make sound decisions, rather than to try and sell them specific products. Using this approach we build a relationship that’s based on trust and mutual commitment...