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By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 23, 2010
As organizations take a close hard look at cloud computing and how it can help them with their businesses, some are coming away unimpressed by the maturity or with concerns about risk, control, and privacy. Yet others are beginning to…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing, databases, digital business models, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, Open Data, open supply chains, SOA, strategy
By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 18, 2010
The rate of change in the IT industry has increased dramatically in recent years, but overall technological change has moved ahead even faster. Such is the pace that it’s been imposing a disruptive forward drag on enterprises and it’s been…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, CIO, Crowdsourcing, CTO, CXO, CxO Issues, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, iPhone, mobile, Open Business Models, shadow it, social business, social computing, social networking, Social Tools, technology, Web, Web 2.0, Wikis
By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 5, 2010
There’s been some useful discussion recently about using the app store model for distributing enterprise software and services within organizations. Up until now, most IT needs in the majority of businesses have been met largely through one-size-fits-all delivery of solutions…
Posted in Software | Tagged App Store, Business, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, infotech, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, SaaS, smbs, SOA, strategy, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA)
By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 2, 2010
Ray Wang began an excellent discussion last month that highlighted the major shifts and disruptive forces that the modern CIO faces today. It’s a given with most executives these days that the business landscape is quite a different one than it was just two short years ago. As part of this, many long-held assumptions and [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, cios, Crowdsourcing, enterprise, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, Open APIs, Open Business Models, social business, social computing, transformation
By Dion Hinchcliffe on January 12, 2010
It almost a truism that cultural and organizational factors — these include politics, information silos, “tribal” interests, and effective change management — generally determine the success or failure of a major IT initiative in most organizations today. While “big bang” strategic projects and infrastructure upgrades are notoriously fraught with peril, particularly when it comes to [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged adoption, API, Collective intelligence, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Governance, Industry Trends, ISO 20000, Organizational culture, people, process, Project failures, Service-oriented architecture, SOA, SOA Governance, Social, social computing, technology, TOGAF 9, Val IT
By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 23, 2009
The announcement last week of Amazon’s new EC2 Spot Instances was more than just another move considerably ahead of the rest of the industry by that forward-looking cloud computing leader. Spot Instances also heralds the beginnings of a real trading…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged agility, Amazon, Business, Cloud Computing, enterprise, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, Software, spot market, tco, value
By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 11, 2009
It’s a truism that you don’t have to buy software to deliver on SOA, which is primarily a style of technical architecture and business strategy and isn’t really something you can go out and purchase. But it’s also true that…
Posted in Software | Tagged Architecture, Business, Cloud Computing, Compliance, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, esb, Governance, Industry Trends, integration, mashups, Open source, SOA, Software, strategy, Web services
By Dion Hinchcliffe on November 23, 2009
The data that our businesses own has become the name of the game when it comes to what ultimately lies at the core of economic value today, now seemingly more than ever before.
We appear to be entering the era of the knowledge economy, where most of what we do in business (about 50% of where [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing, data, data sharing, data-centricity, databases, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, information power, information sharing, integration, master data management, mdm, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open innovation, SOA, social computing, Web 2.0, web api
