Book Excerpts: iPad edition
More excerpts from my upcoming book, The New Polymath due in June. The book celebrates innovations of all kinds including those around interfaces. As the iPad is introduced and has the opportunity to be a game changer, here are excerpts from Chapter 11 on Interfaces. “Well, this is a book celebrating disruptors, so let’s highlight [...]
Wednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers – March 2010
PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Ashesh Badani became Sr. [...]
In quest of simplicty
If you’re in the market for hammers and silver-bullets, simplicity is a pretty good one.
Blogging and a Knowledge Scarcity Model Don’t Mix
I recently swapped around my office space, and found some old (paper) notebooks that I browsed through before shredding. One of them, from 2006, contained a page of notes that I jotted down about why consultants don’t blog:
Not enough time
Too few “outside” interests (aside from proprietary customer work), hence nothing interesting to blog about
Knowledge scarcity [...]
Spend Management Heads to the Wine Cellar: Time to Stock Up
The great thing about wine is that it’s not only fun to drink — it’s also a store of utility and potential investment value as well (especially if your collecting habits tend towards first-growth Bordeaux and Burgundies, some of which cost more than my first and second cars combined did). In fact, many high-end wine [...]
Greenpeace: Cloud, Consumption & Climate Change
Greenpeace has now turned its attention to cloud computing, its impact on the energy consumption and the resultant influence on the environment. A somewhat loosely compiled report takes a shot at the various cloud initiatives of the consumer tech major…
The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth
One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. It seems like the approach du jour is blog first, fundraise second. Vivek Wadhwa (@vwadhwa) TechCrunch even published a piece decrying the end of startup stealth mode. Fast forward to yesterday and Dan Frommer (@fromedome) of Silicon Alley Insider declares, “Stealth Mode is Back.” He [...]
Lawson: Im OK, you are not OK
Lawson announced plans to run its Enterprise and Talent Management software on the Amazon cloud. It also announced a subscription model around its license and maintenance cost.First things first – this is a giant step forward for a vendor whose CEO was predicting the SaaS market would be collapsing about now. But as I told [...]
Vendor Analysis: Breaking out Strategic Sourcing as Gartner Defines It
In Gartner’s most recent magic quadrant analyzing the “strategic sourcing” market as they call it, Debbie Wilson lumps together a hodge-podge of solution areas such as “strategic sourcing suites.” Debbie bundles “strategic sourcing applications,” “spending analysis,” “supply base management” and “enterprise contract management” as part of her definition of strategic sourcing suites. Some of Gartner’s [...]
Private (Cloud) Phantasies
I am hearing plenty of conversations around private clouds. The basic theme is “we will virtualize our processing and storage and get many of the benefits of public clouds”. And, of course, “we will have none of the security and service level issues with public clouds.” Incumbent application vendors encourage that thinking as a way [...]
