The trigger for this blog is the publishing of a new white paper on SOA, but its more than just another paper on a topic that still creates controversy over its use, and from that its real value. This paper is the combined work of the three most prolific providers of various ‘standards’ that relateRead… Read more »
I remember writing a blog post entitled ‘we want Web 2.0, whatever that is’ a couple of years back drawing attention to the challenge of hype in connection with the new technologies and their capabilities as laid out by Tim O’Reilly in his original definition of Web 2.0. http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html My plea was to understand theRead… Read more »
A secure ID is the starting point for most in-house IT systems, but we really need a federated ID that is still secure for most of what we are now contemplating in terms of the people based Web 2.0 style interactions that are driving a lot of the new business value today. No where isRead… Read more »
The idea of eGovernment is not exactly new, but definitely back in focus again as Governments everywhere seem to be all looking for savings, and see the idea of eGovernment as one of the ways to achieve some savings. The rationale sounds good to a Politician ‘we will deliver more for less cost’, move efficientRead… Read more »
I work in an environment where the expectation of the speed of answers and responses doesn’t make any allowance for my not being at my (or even a) desk. It simply would not be expected that I put up a ‘travelling and not available on email’ notice on Exchange’. Therefore I have to have, andRead… Read more »
In the industry we like to talk about the transformational potential of the technologies with which we work and the profound way in which they impact individuals the economy and society. When you look at our own practices do we always live up to this challenge ourselves? One area that has intrigued me is theRead… Read more »
It was an interesting time in the Christmas to New Year break in the West, on one hand the pace slows down operationally but on the other hand more time gets devoted towards thinking a little more strategically. It’s obvious to look at the year gone by to try to assess what was actually achieved,Read… Read more »
By necessity most business activities at the process level have been remote and opaque from both the customers, and all too often, from those involved too. I use the phrase necessity to cover two very different aspects; commercial advantage, the benefit obtained from having and applying unique knowledge; as distinct from the operational limitations imposedRead… Read more »
As we move steadily into understanding that Technologies of Web 2.0, and some others are going to have a profound impact on ‘how’ we are all working and managing there is beginning to be more and more material around on business architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_architecture the noble art of understanding how a business is organised in termsRead… Read more »
We seem to be living in a 2.0 world, everything is a 2.0 something, and so it seems entirely natural to use the term Government 2.0. At least conceptually I think a good number of people who are reading this have a grasp of what this means, but I would like to try to goRead… Read more »