Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Future costs and Cloud

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There are many subjects which I find tiresome but two which are starting to irritate me are the notion of Enterprise Cloud and Financial ER...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Spotting the Next generation ...

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For the best part of a decade I've worked on how business activities evolve from genesis through to products to commodity. As activities...
Saturday, November 05, 2011

Bye, Bye American dream ...

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In the last fifty years wealth inequality has risen dramatically in the US, with real earnings ( adjusting for inflation ) increasing by 5% ...
Friday, November 04, 2011

Is it time to reset?

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Our economy faces unusual challenges due to the exceptionally high debt burden. In terms of Government debt this is represented through Gilt...
Thursday, November 03, 2011

Ecosystem & Porter

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A common characteristic of Next generation organisations ( as opposed to traditional ) is their focus on ecosystems and the provision of pl...
Saturday, October 08, 2011

More QE madness ...

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In the last five years, GBP has dropped in value by between 23-47% against the USD, EUR and CNY when Gold is used as the standard. GBP has t...
Thursday, October 06, 2011

Larry offers Hotel California ...

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According to CW, Larry recently raged over Salesforce describing it as a roach motel and pleading the case for interoperability. He's ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Bank Recapitalisation ... Pirate Style

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After much ado, the European Union seems to have been badgered into emergency action in order to re-capitalise the banking system due to its...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Why I believe AAPL will crumble ...

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Earlier this year, at the height of Apple fever, I made a bet that Apple will be in Chapter 11 by the end of 2017. I thought I'd expla...

Why proprietary software is mathematically more evil than open source

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As we all know, proprietary software costs time ( t ) and money ( m ). Hence, Proprietary Software = m.t However, we also know that time is ...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Culture eats strategy ... where's the data?

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I find irksome the management mantra that is commonly spouted of "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" because no-one ever seems ...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Strata Conference

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The O'Reilly Strata Conference NYC has now finished and I have to say it was a blast. The standard of speakers, corridor chat and the g...