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Year: 2012

Posted onDecember 18, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

Reclaim email as a business tool

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As many of us prepare to go on leave over the Christmas/New Year period we’re cleaning-up our email and perhaps grumbling about the avalanche of…

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Posted onNovember 25, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

A prediction for the mobile era

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Since the dawn of the personal computer, the hardware industry has relied on a cycle of obsolesce of just a few years.  Working with their…

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Posted onOctober 26, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

Can enterprise solutions be built from individual projects?

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Imagine an electronics company planning a new tablet or phone and building the business case based on pre-committed orders.  Similarly, imagine a utility trying to…

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Posted onSeptember 21, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

Digital disruption – short fuse, big bang?

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Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with a range of my Deloitte colleagues on a report into the “digital disruption”…

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Posted onAugust 26, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

Just 3% smarter isn’t enough

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There is a curious phenomenon in IQ tests.  Every test is designed to have an average score across the population of 100 but for any…

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Posted onJuly 27, 2012January 4, 2021Cloud

Cloud computing should be about new business models

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Everyone is talking about cloud computing, but most of the debate misses the point.  Cloud computing isn’t really about computers at all, it is about…

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Posted onJune 26, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

Customers smile at the edges

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One of the best ways of understanding your success is by measuring how happy your customers are.  To make sense of their response you obviously…

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Posted onMay 26, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

The evolution of information standards

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Anyone who has ever tried to negotiate a standard for data storage or communication will confirm that it is difficult to get agreement and even…

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Posted onApril 23, 2012January 4, 2021Cloud

Bringing together digital, cloud and big data

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History is replete with examples where ideas are launched with great fanfare and yet fail while subsequent iterations of very similar ideas are hugely successful. …

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Posted onMarch 18, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

It’s time for a new definition of big data

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Two words seemingly on every technologist’s lips are “big data”.  The Wikipedia definition for big data is: “In information technology, big data consists of datasets…

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