The shift in technology design
“If you want simplicity, if you want to be seen as an innovator, then it’s the mainstream customers you should be aiming at” is a fundamental shift in technology design
Digital trends compressing processes
In November 2012, Joining Dots delivered a presentation at Ovum Analysts’ Business Process Management event: ‘Compressing processes – How productivity is going social and mobile’
Architect or Gardener?
When planning for a new system and its governance requirements, consider whether the system is transactional and in need of specifics versus collaborative and in need of guidance. Architect one and landscape the other.
The Inevitable Collapse of Systems
Once something is already complicated, it becomes easier and easier to add to the mess. That behaviour needs to be reversed or accept at some point it will be ‘all change’ as the system collapses and a new one arises. Read More
Concerns with cloud computing
Early lessons learned when planning a transition to cloud computing – do not focus solely on the technical capability, there are always external social and economic factors to consider
Dell B2B Social Media Huddle Part 1 – Trends
On Monday 7th December 2009 I attended Dell’s excellent B2B Social Media Huddle at the UK headquarters in Bracknell. About 60 people attended the event and there were some great conversations. Here are some highlights Read More
Changing Habits
The potential offered by digital trends can only be tapped when the workplace culture is in a position (and ready) to embrace it.
What does Web 2.0 mean…
Web 2.0 is creating lots of buzz at the moment, both positive and negative, and the inevitable ‘dotcom’ bubble comparisons have begun as the main players go into acquisition mode. I think it is too soon to be defining what is, and what isn’t, Web 2.0. But I do think it’s important to consider what it means and why it matters. Read More
A portal won’t slay the dragon
When portal mania took hold in 2002, a simple enough question often went unanswered: “what is it going to help you do?” (As opposed to what it is going to help you know.) The following story could apply to any new technology that alters access to information Read More
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