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Openness

I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...

Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-19

NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'

NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'Most tangible elementProjects, especially challenging ones, tend to focus on their most tangible and short-term measurable aspects. Budgets and schedules are tangible. Whether a server is in place or not is tangible. Whether an application is accessible to the...

Tags: Strategy, IT Project, NakedIT, information technology, JP Rangaswami, Business Value

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

CIO Sessions: BT's JP Rangaswami

CIO Sessions: BT's JP RangaswamiQuestonDan - I'm giving a presentation to an ICT Outsourcing summit early next year - I'd love to use excerpts from the interview suitably acknowledged of course.Any chance of getting a raw feed to cut sections from - I'm particularly interested in his comments about SaaS...

Tags: JP Rangaswami, British Telecommunications

Discussion threads 2007-11-01

Perpetual questioning is the price of liberty

In More on wikipedia and expertise and gatekeepers and quality, JP Rangaswami says regarding Jaron Lanier's Digital Maoism: Let me end by saying that any medium of expression has the capacity to be subverted into a propaganda machine. The internet is not a medium of expression, it is a...

Tags: JP Rangaswami, Politics

Blog posts 2006-09-06

JP Rangaswami on complexity, control and bigness

The always interesting JP Rangaswami, former CIO and now chief of Alternative Market Models at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, struck a chord in his recent post dealing with the triad of control, complexity and sprawling bigness.There is considerable organisational inertia to task redefinition, de-sequencing and re-sequencing, as people desperately try and...

Tags: Complex

Blog posts 2006-08-22

The four application pillars of enterprise 3.0

If the move to services architectures is going to shake up and redefine enterprise applications, what will be the end result? JP Rangaswami, CIO at top global investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein DrKW gave his prediction last week at a private gathering in London of some of the...

Tags: enterprise application, DrKW

Blog posts 2005-12-09

DrKW CIO JP Rangaswami on the 'new outsource'

DrKW CIO JP Rangaswami on the 'new outsource'The most important aspect of IT[Much of what I see sent offshore is commoditised stuff where the value should have been in coming together as an industry and saying we'll build utilities that all banks and financial houses can use.]Systems integration! Integrating ulilities...

Tags: Outsourcing, DrKW, JP Rangaswami, outsource

Discussion threads 2005-08-12

DrKW CIO JP Rangaswami on the 'new outsource'

Silicion.com's interview with JP Rangaswami, CIO at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein DrKW, provides a glimpse into one of the smartest people in IT. He is one of the few CIOs unafraid to try out a broad array of new technologies and open source projects. Here's a sample of the...

Tags: offshore, open source, outsource

Blog posts 2005-08-11

Additional Resources

Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable

You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...

Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Time for open source to build a Code Recycling Center

Time for open source to build a Code Recycling CenterExcellent ideaExcellent idea. Often companies have utilities created for in-house use that are no longer needed. Years ago I wrote a utility to determine the answer date on lawsuits in Texas, which does not work on a "20 days...

Tags: Code Recycling Center, open source

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPCSupercomputer Uses.I don't want to sound dumb, but unless the NNSA does nuclear simulations couldn't they keep track of their nuclear stockpile with a Windows, Linux or Mac machine? :-)Update: I read another article related to the supercomputer that states they...

Tags: Game players, Sony Playstation, supercomputing, IBM Corp., HPC, Intel Corp., chip, Crysis

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Nikon Coolpix P80

For megazoom shooters, the Nikon Coolpix P80's 18x zoom, 27-486mm-equivalent f/2.8-4.5 lens likely sits at the top of the list of the P80's attractions. The range provides a good combination of wide-angle and telephoto views at relatively wide maximum aperture values. Nikon supports the lens with an agreeable and functional...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, P80, ISO, aperture, Nikon Corp.

Product reviews 2008-06-09

Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?

Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?Why is Crude Oil Price so High?Why is the Dollar so low?RE: Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?It's pretty easy. OPEC is made up mostly not all mind you, of countries that are not to fond of the US....

Tags: Auto Industry, OPEC, Crude Oil, cartel

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

NewLive Mpeg to AVI DIVX VCD DVD Converter (exe)

Mpeg to AVI DIVX VCD DVD Converter can help you convert MPEG files to AVI, DIVX, VCD, and DVD. The professional edition can support burn VCD. It is very simple and easy to use. High converting speed, wonderful output quality. Convert Mpeg to AVI format. Convert Mpeg to XVID. Convert...

Tags: VCD, AVI, Realconvert

Software downloads 2008-06-06

What we do know about Windows 7

What we do know about Windows 7Not 2010, It's sep 2009Windows 7 would definitely be released in 2009. Mostly Sep 2009as you guessed in previous postsWindows 7 will be more tightly integrated with Windows Mobile.Gee, there is a nonstarter.By the time Win7 comes out, WinMobile will have been Zunified and...

Tags: Wiki, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, HA-HA-HA, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Amid April slowdown, SanDisk rolls out mobile phone storage

SanDisk on Tuesday announced mobile phone storage cards available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB versions. The rub: SanDisk has already warned that business has slowed so it's unclear whether folks will buy premium storage for mobile phones. At the JP Morgan technology conference Monday, SanDisk CEO Eli...

Tags: Card, Mobile, SanDisk Corp., Storage, Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Fastest-growing Japanese Web sites for March 2008

Property February 2008 March 2008 Growth, % Total Internet 54,395 54,935 1 MAINICHI.JP 4,678 6,062 30 WALKERPLUS.COM 2,157 2,785 29 Konami 2,147 2,645 23 JALAN.NET 3,214 3,926 22 VEOH.COM 2,712 3,162 17 Adobe...

Tags: Konami Corp., Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-05-18

AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?

AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver. Given that AMD has had a hard time delivering its quad-core chips and...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Management, Manufacturing, Processors, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-08

VMware targets long-term deals; pursues lock-in strategy

VMware's first quarter results got the company out of Wall Street's penalty box and highlighted how the virtualization leader is trying to sign customers up to long-term licensing deals to fend off a potential pricing pressure from rivals such as Citrix and Microsoft. VMware after the closing...

Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Customer, Agreement, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-23

The problem with Forrester's $4.6 billion prediction

The problem with Forrester's $4.6 billion predictionProcesses not purchases..Fascinating read Dennis, trying to find actual report on Forrester site. I quoted you in my post here http://www.olivermarks.com/?p=30 and also JP Rangasami, some interesting parallels in your respective posts on the importance of establishing processes and concepts/goals before deciding on technology...

Tags: Forrester Research Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-21