February 2007

Michael Izza blogs

February 27, 2007 General

Ken Frost says Michael Izza, ICAEW’s CEO is blogging. What was Ken thinking? Michael’s blog is behind the ICAEW members’ paywall. That’s not blogging. That’s navel gazing. Nobody cares about that. Yet another great example of cluelessness on the part of ICAEW. Kathy Sierra has a very nice primer on certain aspects of cluelessness. For [...]

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Outlook 2007: dangerous for your survival

February 27, 2007 General

Jason Busch is incandescent with rage over his attempted Vista/Outlook 2007 install/migration on a shiny new $2,800 Dell laptop. Note – Jason is a tech head: Hey, category managers in charge of IT spend. Want to make yourself a friend of the business for life? I’ve got a secret for you: don’t rubberstamp your CIO’s [...]

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Wii innovation at Colgate-Palmolive

February 27, 2007 Innovation

Thomas Otter has an excellent post about innovation going on inside the SAP customer base. For once, it is answering the critique many levy: Stop telling us about your products, show how you’re helping SAP customers innovate. I was fascinated by the work done by a couple of Colgate-Palmolive engineers. All done in their spare [...]

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Microsoft Convergence and the Blue Monster

February 27, 2007 Innovation

I’m scheduled to go to Microsoft’s Convergence gig next month. Nice but could be turgid. These events usually are though I often find at least one interesting story. No offence to Microsoft, this is a generalisation based on 15 years schlepping around customer events. I recently spoke with Steve Clayton who’s leading the Microsoft Blue [...]

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No more SaaS

February 27, 2007 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I’ve made a decision. The term SaaS is no longer relevant. Why? Because in the last year, I’ve seen very little by way of on-premise applications that delivered anything of serious innovative note. The things I see adding value are services. The software piece is assumed. SaaS is dead – long live services. PS – [...]

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Digita, XAPL and looking the wrong way

February 27, 2007 Innovation

Last week, a partner at a medium sized firm asked my thoughts on XAPL. My response: Who cares? Reading Sarah Perrin’s recent piece in the Age, I was particularly struck by Jerry Rihil, MD Digita‘s remarks: ‘We are very, very excited about it,’ Rihll says of XAPL. ‘We are very enthusiastic but we recognise that [...]

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Mashup scenarios

February 27, 2007 Innovation

Mashup is rapidly becoming part of the technology lingua franca but what the heck does it mean? Yesterday, four colleagues and I recorded a fascinating and at times animated discussion on this topic. It will come out as a podcast at some point in March. I’ll point to it when it comes available. My take: [...]

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You know something is worthwhile when…

February 26, 2007 Innovation

…you get an email from an attendee at an event you recently spoke at saying they have a great idea and would I mind looking at it. Especially when the request comes from a non-techie type. Someone who has eyes to see and ears to hear about some of the genuinely useful things coming down [...]

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Extra iPhone features

February 26, 2007 Humour

It must be Mad Monday. Courtesy of a Vid-a-Day Plus. Along with Dilbert, all days should start with something like this. Technorati Tags: Dilbert, humor, iphone

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Teaching logic

February 26, 2007 Humour

This is surely worthy of Zoli. Instead it comes courtesy of Gary Turner. Technorati Tags: humor, logical thinking

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