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
Last week, Bob Evans published an article entitled, " Suicide Strategy For CIOs: Aligning IT With The Business ." In it he asserts that the CIO must abandon efforts to align IT to the business and instead align with customers. This does not make business sense. Information technology enables...
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fredcummins
on 10-21-2009
Filed under: Business transformation , CIO, Value chain , IT Services, SOA value chain, Business-IT Alignment
A few weeks ago I participated in a technical trend conversation aimed mainly at the oil and gas organizations. Last weekend I did something similar but this time talking with some individuals from various HR organizations - at an HR Roundtable Summit that SMU held in San Antonio. Their rankings came...
A colleague asked some of us here: “Does the enterprise data center as we know it needs to change?“ My immediate thought was “Of course it needs to change!” The typical raised floor data center is filled with isolated hardware running independently managed operating systems. These...
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 MP3 file here. Click here to play this audio clip
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Charlie Bess
on 09-21-2009
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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 find a home. This is one of the areas that HP...
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Charlie Bess
on 07-15-2009
Filed under: Business value generation , Green IT, Innovation , Trends, IT Services, Technology adoption, Virtualization
We have seen the early versions of Cloud Computing models, with the promise of rapid service invocation, pay-per-use, ease of scaling, and simplified service-to-service interaction, and one can only help but think back to the mid-‘90s when the Internet and the Internet Protocol , HTML , HTTP ,...
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Darrel Thomas
on 05-15-2009
Filed under: Applications, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , SaaS, Applications, IT Services