My review of Mary Jo Foley’s new book: Microsoft 2.0 - How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era is published today by Computer Weekly.
a baker’s dozen for the bonfire?Computer Weekly’s Tony Collins has highlighted 13 expensive Government IT project failures in the past ten years and asked the question “why can’t the Government get IT right?” Colin Beveridge will set out a compelling vision of the future in a series of new executive briefings. Why is the IT-centric paradigm redundant? Contact Colin Beveridge for more [...] I do have a compelling vision for the next paradigm but first we need to make IT history. The web is always a soft target for politicians who don’t understand that communication is about more than broadcasting. Within the space of 24 hours the UK Prime Minister has cited the Internet first as a politically essential force for parental good and then, a few hours later without blinking, as a political force force [...] No I am not offering to bail out any Investment Banks or failing Mortgage lenders. I don’t have the cash. Organisations are poor at forecasting the true cost of ownership for a proposed system, preferring to base business cases on corporate accounting policies instead; thereby creating an increasing legacy of sunk costs for years to come. Consequently our operating budgets become heavily backloaded towards the past, rather than towards the future. Video of the week: Enterprise Radar (Tim O’Reilly)Tim O’Reilly’s presentation at Web2.0 Expo (New York, September 08) described the way in which companies such as Google and Dell have created autonomic (self-learning) systems to drive their business. Cybersquatters swoop on financial turmoilCybersquatting is alive and well. According to a BBC report internet domain speculators (aka cybersquatters) were quick off the mark to pre-emptively grab possible domain names before the ink was even on agreements between merging/ acquiring financial institutions. The Barclays/Lehmans deal and the Lloyds/ HBOS tie-up were both ripe fruit for the cybersquatters to pluck and then [...] |
||
|
Copyright Colin Beveridge 2009. Some rights reserved.  This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence WordPress · Best Wordpress Layouts · Professional Wordpress Layouts |
||
most commented