Tuesday, September 15, 2015

How commodity is something?

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tl;dr There are a number of different ways you can refine your maps but in most cases, it's rare that you should go beyond aggregated v...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

The art of strategy ... it doesn't matter.

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Strategy is fundamentally about answering the question of "Why?" But "Why" is a relative statement as in "Why ...
Tuesday, September 08, 2015

The continued search for Spime Script

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Back in 2006, I gave a talk on the likely development of a future language - Spime Script - that would encode both digital and physical str...
Sunday, September 06, 2015

Somethings are different, some remain the same.

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Back in 2011, I published a population study of companies showing that a next generation of company seemed to be emerging with a different p...
Friday, September 04, 2015

VMware, EMC ... the rumour mill is in fine flow.

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In a discussion over China and the USA, the conversation turned to all the tech rumours floating around VMware & EMC. I shrugged my sho...
Monday, August 31, 2015

A lament to the Enterprise of yesteryear

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We're being hit by disruptive innovation!  Our industry is being commoditised!  Our business is complex!   We'...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Amazon and the last man standing

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I often talk about the 61 repeatable forms of gameplay in the market and I know I'm a bit behind on doing those posts. I don't nor...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

The Open Source Cloud, start playing the long game.

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Back in 2007, I gave a keynote at OSCON on the future importance of open source and open standards to create competitive utility computing ...

On Diffusion and Evolution

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I recently saw this tweet and unfortunately, despite good intentions, there's a lot wrong with it. I've taken the main image (unkno...
Monday, August 24, 2015

On the common fallacy of hypothesis driven business.

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TL;DR Look before you leap. There's a lot wrong with the world of software engineering but then again, there's always been a lot ...