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What if we were to apply service oriented concepts to people

During the Fellows meeting, we were talking about the next big thing (TNBT), we discussed, “What if people were handled like services?“ It reminded me of a patent application I had put in a few years back for an approach to assigning work based on what...

Published 06-16-2005 12:00 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: SOA , Development, EaaS

Nothing like a little emergency eye surgery to round out the week

Last week I got a chance to feel new technology up close and personal. Before I had LASIK , I was nearsighted. As nearsighted people get older, their retina can tear. In a meeting this week, suddenly I was seeing something that looked like a fly moving...

Published 10-03-2005 9:39 PM by Charlie Bess

Tools for the business analyst - an unaddressed market?

One of the sad facts of the dot com era was the demise of the business analyst in many organizations. For some reason, the business analysts' skills in a specific industry and their ability to talk with clients in their own language was no longer...

Published 09-30-2005 7:14 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Modeling

ICD-10: Is this a bigger issue than Y2K for healthcare?

SB628 mandates the U.S. to move from ICD-9 to ICD-10 , a much more complex scheme of classifying diseases. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the final rule adopting ICD-10 with a compliance date of October 1, 2013. As...

Published 01-27-2009 4:45 PM by Dan Gonos

Filed under: Government, Healthcare

Enterprise Adoption of Cloud Computing – or Not?

It looks like cloud computing is beginning to enter the "trough of disillusionment" on Gartner's oft-quoted " Hype Cycle ". Last summer, Gartner positioned " cloud computing " on the emerging side of their hype cycle...

Published 01-29-2009 11:30 PM by Ed Reynolds

Filed under: Business Value Generation, Cloud, Emerging Technologies, IT Services

Was Thomas Edison right about power to the data centre?

Back at the beginning of the last century, there was a great War of Currents debate about how power should be delivered to consumers. Thomas Edison was behind a DC based delivery system, and Westinghouse advocated an AC based approach. Clearly Westinghouse...

Published 02-12-2007 10:38 PM by Charlie Bess

Corporate Email And Apple's iPhone

With the launch of Apple's iPhone imminent, many users of corporate mobile email systems (like RIMM’s BlackBerry) are beginning to ask the question, "Will my corporate email work on an iPhone?" I have always assumed that such a combination...

Published 06-22-2007 12:32 AM by Randy Mears

Blogging conference

My panel participation at the Blogging Enterprise conference is now over. I participated in a panel discussing ways to project thought leadership using blogs. The thing I heard that resonated with me the most was stated by John Moore of the Brand Autopsy...

Published 11-03-2005 9:54 PM by Charlie Bess

Latency and progress in computing

I went to the University of North Texas recently with a number of other folks to talk with a class completing their master’s degree in computer science. One of the topics we discussed was the rate of change of computing capability. A presenter provided...

Published 06-16-2005 12:03 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , IT Services, Singularity

Mania and the Next Big Thing

Looking back on the variety of things that really impacted people’s lives, there often seems to be a manic nature to their creation and adoption. It starts with a period of intense expectation and anticipation culminating with a strong (and often painful...

Published 06-16-2005 12:04 AM by Jeff Wacker

The future of television, robotic soldiers and other assorted technologies

I recently had the opportunity to do a taping session for Modern Marvels on the History Channel (segment debuts June 22). The topic was Future Tech, and I was asked to speak to the future of television, robotic soldiers, automobiles, brain-machine interface...

Published 06-17-2005 8:22 PM by Jeff Wacker

TNBT - IT Treasure Hunting

On the return from a recent trip to Miami, I sat next to a young man who described himself as a “treasure hunter.” It seems that a trust fund left to him by his grandfather was going into the business of finding buried and submerged treasure. He talked...

Published 06-15-2005 10:21 PM by Jeff Wacker

IT project failures

I was exchanging emails with Dennis Howlett about his thoughts on improving EDS' blog. He posted an entry about this blog and so an e-mail discussion ensued. In the process of that discussion, he wondered what I thought about this article from Accounting...

Published 11-30-2005 2:08 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Metrics

IT Trend Laws

I had to give a talk about the top 3 IT trends at a conference about a year ago. I thought it was simple, Internet2, Unstructured Data Management and Ubiquitous Computing – wrong! I sent out an e-mail survey to about two dozen respected IT professionals...

Published 05-31-2006 8:51 PM by Kas Kasravi

Filed under: Emerging technologies

I Hear Rumors That Our Education Institutions Are In Trouble

Pundits tell me that unless we change things, our youth will not have a chance in the flat world. I have a couple of youthful data points, two grandchildren. Given a grandfather's natural bias, Grace Ann and Luke are two remarkable windows into the...

Published 06-15-2006 8:56 PM by TOM HILL

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