Thursday, October 04, 2012

Spoiler Alert ... 3D printing

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Anyone who knows me, knows I've spent well over a decade  keeping tabs on and occasionally being actively involved in 3D printing and p...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

A dangerous intervention ...

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A few years ago, I warned about the dangers of Government intervention and creation of certified cloud providers. After reading the EC commu...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

The Standards Jungle ...

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The EC has released a communication on cloud computing I've had a brief read, I'm in the middle of other work but I'll note ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Something I'll be coming back to ...

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I'm just finishing my latest research and I thought I'd share a graph with you as I'm going to be using it from time to time. ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Open by Default ... No Thanks

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Despite being involved in the open source community for over a decade, I am not a fan of open by default. My preferred route for deciding wh...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Unstructured vs Structured

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There are many terms I dislike from the misuse of the term innovation to the whole computer utility vs cloud debate. Another example of this...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Real Company syndrome

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Ten years ago, I went on the Canon Corporate Executive development program at INSEAD and other institutions. I remember it well because on...

What's my IT strategy?

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I was asked this question recently about a company's IT strategy. Which bit was actually strategy? This is fairly easy to work out. 1....
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Open Source and the Cloud

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"It's important to understand that open source in this utility computing world is not a tactic, it's not a strategy, it's ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Dante's Quadruple circle of hell - The Expense System

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I have a fervent dislike of expense systems. It's not that I have particular dislike of an expense process but it's the systems them...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

I don't like Hayek vs Keynes

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I'm pro Hayek, pro Keynes and very much Anti Friedman. I see an awful lot of discussion which is Hayek vs Keynes and I don't quite ...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

On Predictions

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There are three basic forms of predictions that I make, which given this recent podcast I thought I'd better make clear. First, there ...