BP oil spill and obvious failure
In some organizations, Pollyanna-like tendencies emerge whenever they plan new projects, leading to inevitable failure.
Android: The Long Term Bet
Image via Wikipedia Fascinating news from a recent Appcelerator survey of 2700 mobile developers: – The long term bet among these developers is Android – Apple is a short term bet, mostly because it’s a hot platform now. – The reason is open-ness and cross-platform portability The really interesting thing is that a lot of [...]
What’s Hadoop Good For?
Image via CrunchBase Hadoop, for those who haven’t heard of it, is an Open Source version of Google’s Map Reduce distributed computing algorithm. After reading that Adobe has agreed to Open Source their Puppet modules for managing Hadoop, I got curious about what Adobe might be doing with it. It didn’t take long on Google [...]
Behavioral economics: The IT failure domino effect
Most managers believe their organization’s investment and project execution decisions are rational and based on informed choice. However, bias creates a domino effect that culminates in failed projects.
Can Arqiva provide the Smart Grid communications infrastructure for Britain?
Photo credit Lee Jordan We had a really interesting Smart Grid related conversation with a company called Arqiva the other day. I hadn’t heard of Arqiva before but they are quite a significant player in communications infrastructure. They own or have exclusive marketing rights for 16,000 communication masts in UK – what they call vertical [...]
Basware and Lavante: Where Invoicing, Supplier Management and Audit Recovery Meet? (Part 2)
In the first post highlighting the recently announced partnership between Basware and Lavante, I provided a bit of context behind the deal, given both vendors’ histories and target markets. In today’s post, I’ll provide a bit more color on the announcement, especially from the standpoint of Lavante’s roots in automating as much of the audit [...]
