Friday, February 07, 2014

Something for the future II

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A list of companies in two groups . I'm putting this here in order to return to the lists in 2020. It's a prediction test (useful...
Thursday, February 06, 2014

Openstack ... this is the year! Again!

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Every year, I hear people tell me that this is the year that OpenStack will make it big and challenge Amazon. Every year, I repeat the ...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Context, Situation, Components, PaaS, Dead or Alive … it's all semantics isn't it?

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tl;dr Caveat Emptor Figure 1 – HS2 Figure 1 provides a visual view of an IT system related to the HS2 project .  The map is cre...
Monday, February 03, 2014

A Wardley Map

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I was recently asked what do you call the maps (see figure 1) that are produced by the mapping technique I developed? Figure 1 Ar...
Sunday, February 02, 2014

Is war a mother of invention?

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Over the last decade, I've done quite a bit of work on refining the impacts of evolution on business. Figure 1 provides the typical pat...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Looking for a Sci-Fi novel – recommendation please

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I note with interest that Malta is in the process of selling EU passports to the wealthy . The scheme allows those  (and their dependents) ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

The evolution of evolution

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Back at EuroFoo 2004, I gave two talks - one on 3D printing and the other on Commoditisation of IT. In the latter talk, I discussed a gener...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Should I be ‘outside-in’ or ‘inside-out’?

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One of the areas of focus for LEF at this moment is the issue of outside-in business models where an organisation places emphasis on co-cr...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Mapping the competitive landscape

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A business is a living thing.  It consists of a network of people, a mass of different activities, practices and data along with reserves o...