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 shift behavior. "Researchers at Eindhoven University...
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Charlie Bess
on 11-20-2009
Filed under: Business value generation , Energy , Green IT, Trends, Applications, attention engineering, Technology adoption, User Interface
I stumbled across this HP site talking about the use of HP computers in ham radio . I've been a ham radio operator for almost 40 years, and was pleasantly surprised by this alignment of my interests. Being able to communicate with people from all over the world without relying on standard telecommunications...
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 the number of core hours and increased the amount...
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Charlie Bess
on 11-11-2009
Filed under: Business process modeling , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Trends, Applications, Modeling, business rules, Business-IT Alignment
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 our Innovation During a Downturn podcast a few weeks...
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Charlie Bess
on 11-07-2009
Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption
Earlier this week I was the keynote speaker for the Toronto Innovation Showcase . One of the things the mayor announced was the Toronto Open project. This activity opens up much of the cities information for the residents of Toronto to mashup into applications. They also announced an effort to coordinate...
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Charlie Bess
on 11-05-2009
Filed under: Collaboration, Consumerization , Edge computing , Innovation , Trends, Applications, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, Organizational relationships, User Interface
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 few years ago. I've blogged in the past about...
I was in a discussion the other day with HP's research lead Prith Banerjee . One of the research areas he talked about was Taxonom a data classification SaaS . This project is focused on deriving taxonomies from data. This is always an area I find fascinating, since it is having the computers automate...