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Central Nervous System for the Earth

The New York Times had an article on HP labs activities to gather information on a massive scale . It's a research and development program to show an example of building a planet-wide sensing network, using billions of "tiny, cheap, tough and...

Published 11-23-2009 6:45 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Energy , Trends, Technology adoption, Analytics

Green, Computer Aided Persuasion and the Interface at the Edge

An article in New Scientist explores how user interface researchers are investigating computer aided persuasion as a technique to assist people to make choices. To me this is a perfect example of understanding how to use the edge computing interface to...

Published 11-20-2009 6:15 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Energy , Green IT, Trends, Applications, attention engineering, Technology adoption, User Interface

Business Schools and Information Technology

I was sitting in on a meeting of the Information Technology and Operations Management ( ITOM ) curriculum committee at SMU the other day. One of the interesting things that has happened at business schools across the country is that they have reduced...

Published 11-11-2009 11:39 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business process modeling , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Trends, Applications, Modeling, business rules, Business-IT Alignment

Three ways to thrive

Jim Miller and Mateen Greenway (a couple of other fellows here at HP) just posted an article on hp.com about Three Ways to Thrive in an Uncertain Economic Upturn . These are a different perspective of some of the same issues Jean and I talked about in...

Published 11-07-2009 12:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption

Mashup standards

I was reading SD Times the other day while riding an exercise bike at the gym (hey, you have to do something to keep your mind occupied) and I came across an article on the Open Mashup Alliance . I had quite a number of questions about the OMA . Although...

Published 10-25-2009 1:36 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Standards, Trends, Technology adoption, Web 2.0, Personalization, Flexibility, User Interface

Dealing with information overload - email

In the October IEEE Spectrum there was an article on How to Beat Information Overload . that I found very timely since, during this past week, there were a number of cases where I saw a question go out to a distribution list asking for technical insight...

Published 10-13-2009 11:31 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Productivity

Web 2.0 four years later and five years out

There is a good interview of Tim O'Reilly that validated many of the posts we've made in this blog over the last 5 years. He also published a white paper that goes into more details . The way business value is generated in the future will be changing...

Published 10-09-2009 3:19 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Technology adoption, Web 2.0, Social networking, Semantic

Tech is leading the way???

In an article stating that we should Look to tech to see the economy's future , it appears that demand for high tech items is on the upswing and that Tech will prosper in 2010 . It's been stated before that HP is bullish on 2010 . There are numerous...

Published 10-08-2009 7:55 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Infrastructure , Trends, Business-IT Alignment

Skills gap and employees of the future

An article in Computerworld recently talked about the gap between what is taught in universities and what is needed to be valuable in the workplace. The article lists: 1) Inadequate grip on business realities 2) A narrow worldview 3) Social networking...

Published 09-29-2009 3:01 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Youth, Change management

Application portfolio assessment's many benefits

Recently HP released a video about application portfolio assessment discussing some of the tools allowing developers to see into the complexity of the code they maintain. It is clear that there are many mechanisms now available that didn't exist a...

Published 09-26-2009 5:23 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Green IT, Applications, Architecture

Interview with HP Fellows: A prime time for innovation

A few times on this blog I've talked about the use of the downturn as a jumping off point for innovation and advantage . The other day Jean Lehmann and I were interviewed by about why now is a prime time for innovation. I've put a link to the...

Published 09-21-2009 3:52 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption

Enterprise Architectures role in combating cloud sprawl

In a recent article in Computerworld there was a discussion of the phenomenon of cloud computing expanding uncontrollably in an enterprise. Cloud was compared to the client/server and departmental computing shift that took place in the late 80s and 90s...

Published 09-17-2009 7:25 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Utility computing, Architecture, Change management

Augmented reality moving into general availability

The BBC has an article: Mobile phones get cyborg vision that got me thinking about the number of times I've seen examples of augmented reality demonstration projects recently. This article states: "Via the video function of a mobile phone's...

Published 08-25-2009 1:47 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, 3D

A CTO for all seasons

Following on from Charlie Bess' article about the different definitions of Enterprise Architecture , I thought I would expand the discussion a bit and look at the different types of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) roles as illustrated in the following...

Published 07-20-2009 2:11 PM by mateen greenway

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Architecture, Change management

Moving Bits not Atoms

One of the things we've talked about before is moving bits not atoms . When you do need to move atoms, make sure that they will be used. Amazon has selected HP to print books on demand . This is critical because a significant percentage of books never...

Published 07-15-2009 4:31 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Green IT, Innovation , Trends, IT Services, Technology adoption, Virtualization

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