The Virtuous Circle is key to understanding how the world is changing – Mobile, Social, Cloud, Open Source, APIs, DevOps

I could talk about each of these components in isolation, for instance, Mobile and talk about the growth of it and changes it is fostering but you wouldn’t get the big picture. The change we are seeing can only be understood by considering all these components together. They each affect each other and the widespread […]

The technology “disruption” occurring in today’s business world is driven by open source and APIs and a new paradigm of enterprise collaboration

Disruption and Reuse It is my contention that 90% of costs are being eliminated from the traditional software development process and the time to market reduced dramatically by leveraging the reuse capable today via open source, APIs, fast deployment and resource sharing with PaaS. The cost of Enterprise Software was magnified by an order of […]

Different Industries State of Techno-Health and who is doing it and who isn’t

What is Techno-health? Do different industries have different techno-health? Techno-health refers to different levels of technical maturity and currency or sophistication of their technology? If you are in a segment that doesn’t generally use technology; is it a waste for you to spend more money on technology than the norm for your segment? If you […]

The Enterprise Store – App, API, Mobile

This is a story of 2 successful technologies which presages what I believe is a new important innovation. It started with Apple It all started about 15 years ago Apple introduced the iPhone…. It seems like this anyway. The date was actually in 2007, a mere 6 years ago + a few months. Since […]

Tesla : Case Study : Internet of Things

The Tesla automobile is a big example of the Internet of Things and potential problems and benefits of this idea. (My latest blog update on the tesla is here) IOT properties of the Tesla 1) The Tesla has a persistent always on 3G cell connection to the internet that is paid for by Tesla possibly for life. […]

CIO: Enterprise Refactoring and Technology Renewal: How do you become a profit center to the Enterprise?

CIO’s are being asked more and more to consider being a profit center or at least to reuse the assets they have to reduce costs. They are also being asked to be more agile and to deliver products faster. Some CIOs are being asked to be more entrepreneurial, to facilitate people trying new […]