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Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?

Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?SOA may also be nonsense like Knowledge ManagementI have heard of SOA after it became extensively publicized. Many of the articles I read failed to bring out any distinct and valuable core concept of SOA. One expert (V...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Harvard Business Review, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

Harvard Business Review warns against 'sloppy thinking': does this apply to SOA?

Is SOA just the latest bandwagon nobody wants to miss -- or something deeper? by Joe McKendrick

Tags: SOA, Harvard Business Review, John Evdemon, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Harvard Business Review: 20 top ideas that challenge what you know

The Harvard Business Review has a list of top 20 "Breakthrough Ideas for 2007." Some interesting, ideas here that are counter-culture in that they challenge accepted thinking in many different areas. Siobhan Ford from HBR says that the list is free to read for all of February and that the...

Tags: Disruptive, Emerging Hotbed

Blog posts 2007-02-05

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Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-10

7 (nasty) truths about IT spending

An article in Harvard Business Review suggests Draconian inflexibility is the way to achieve IT cost containment. That view makes no sense. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Information Technology, IT-spending, Susan Cramm, Projects, Project Failure Rate, Help Desk, Strategy, It Operations, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-04-14

When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company...

Morten T. Hansen, a Danish professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD business school, has a terrific piece in the April edition of the  Harvard Business Review entitled 'When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company'. Hansen discusses the political realities of cross unit collaboration very eloquently: 'Collaboration can...

Tags: Hansen, HBS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Julius Genachowski & The FCC: A Failure to Communicate?

So Julius Genachowski is to be Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski and president-elect Obama were classmates at the Harvard Law School. And Obama was his boss back then, too, at the Harvard Law Review. GigaOm...

Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Broadband, Ticketmaster Corp., Interactive Corp., Wireless, Federal Government, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Trust: the Satyam Partnering Disaster

The images above, taken from Satyam's website, are now worthy of the fail blog. The shock waves rippling through the markets following Satyam's chairman and co-founder Ramalinga Raju's admissions of accounting fraud are world news, being dubbed 'India's Enron'. You...

Tags: Satyam, HCL, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-09

CRM 2009 - Part 2.1 - Can't Believe I Forgot These

I forgot to write in two of my forecast segments yesterday. I think for the purposes of blaming something else, I'll blame my car accident last August for the memory loss.  I have to say that because I don't think I can use the term I want to about what happened...

Tags: Customer, Tool, CRM, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-05

News to know: Macs on sale, YouTube goes wide, Twitter, Cisco

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: A rare occurrence: Macs on sale Jason D. O'Grady: Apple retail stores to match prices Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple prepares for Black Friday blow-out! ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, YouTube Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, Telemarketing, AJAX, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Digital Media, Marketing, Marketing Research, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration

There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are...

Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Integration, Morison, Distributed Innovation Group, Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...

Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-19

A conversation with Thomas Otter, Gartner analyst and blogger

While away, I briefly saw some comment about Gartner's latest foray into the blogging world. Past efforts have been abysmal but this latest attempt looks much more promising. Carter Lusher at SageCircle interviewed Andrew Spender, Gartner’s VP of Corporate Communications, via email. The answers were somewhat stilted in my opinion....

Tags: Analyst, Blog, Gartner Inc., Blogger, Thomas, Tele-management, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom

Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...

Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Does IT matter?

As someone who has been accused of publicity seeking through grand pronouncements I can understand the motivation behind Nicholas Carr's 2003 article in Harvard Business Review: "IT Doesn't Matter". His main thesis is: For a brief period, as they are being built into the ...

Tags: Concept, K Mart, Information Technology, Wiki, Matter, Marketswiki.com, Interactive Brokers, Strategy, Management, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-02-17

Microsoft Kool-Aid and the cloud

Responding to my recent assertion that Microsoft's software-plus-services mantra is bunkum, Gianpaolo Carraro â€" the company's chief thinker about SaaS architecture â€" wonders if he's drunk too much Kool-Aid. The answer, my friend, is 'yes'. Here's Gianpaolo's justification for still wanting to buy an Office licence and...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Transportation, Tools & Techniques, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Conventional IT wisdom shattered: more top 10 SOA posts for 2007

The year 2007 was a time that saw a lot of conventional wisdom shattered. Continuing with our review of the most popular posts of 2007, stories that captured the interest of readers far and wide included the potential of running an entire data center operation in the "cloud" for pocket...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Information Technology, Joe McKendrick, Management, SOA, Storage, Strategy, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Eight Traits for Building Collaborative Teams

Now for something from the "Hmmm, that's interesting" pile. A study this month published in the Harvard Business Review subscription required found that four qualities needed for successful collaborative teams also make collaboration so difficult. The good news is that eight leadership traits can go a long...

Tags: Team, Best Practice, News, Team Management, Management, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2007-11-27

SCO, it was good to know ya... you coulda been so much more

SCO, it was good to know ya... you coulda been so much moreBelated obituaryThe Santa Cruz Operation died in 2002. The pieces were sold to Caldera (a Linux distributor, mind) and the rest eventually went to Sun Microsystems.The last five years haven't been so much a long slide into...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Waywardness, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc., Caldera Systems Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2007-09-19

SCO, it was good to know ya... you coulda been so much more

I read with interest this morning a story in ComputerWorld more like an obituary about how SCO said in its most recent SEC filing that there is "substantial doubt" that it will survive. In addition to the meltdown of its lawsuit against IBM, the filing cites its depleted cash...

Tags: Banyan Systems, SCO Group Inc., Open Source, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-19