Comments on: More on TPPA http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/09/more-on-tppa/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/09/more-on-tppa/comment-page-1/#comment-4735 JP Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:59:19 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/09/more-on-tppa/#comment-4735 We're on the same page. They will have different views on device restrictions, internet and web application access, logins and signons, online and offline behaviour. Our current enterprise app set will wither into the background. And the four pillars will show up. So we have to be smarter than we've been so far in the design and deployment of the business apps we give them. We’re on the same page. They will have different views on device restrictions, internet and web application access, logins and signons, online and offline behaviour. Our current enterprise app set will wither into the background. And the four pillars will show up.

So we have to be smarter than we’ve been so far in the design and deployment of the business apps we give them.

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/09/more-on-tppa/comment-page-1/#comment-4727 Dennis Howlett Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:38:27 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/08/09/more-on-tppa/#comment-4727 I'm pretty sure we're agreed on this but maybe not the emphasis. There is an assumption that people will not make distinctions between work and home life. I'm not wholly convinced, even among teenagers who are arguably the first generation to have been exposed to computers from an early stage in their lives. My 16 year old son Joe 'lives' in MySpace outside of school but well understands the need to learn and use programs that require more than the ability to click a mouse and tap in a few text message style words while in school. As I see it, the way for software designers to overcome this 'difference' is to somehow make business usage fun in a non trivial way. I have no real clue how that might happen but it intuitively makes sense. At least to me! It's also important to remember that home computing isn't ubiquitous. There are many sections of society that don't have broadband, or, for that matter access to a home computer. So designers will need to take this into consideration as well. Perhaps more so. Where I do think this idea has significant impact is for new graduate hires post 2010. My sense is that having been exposed to an online only world, they'll ask pointed questions about on premise, IT support, IT strictures, policies about in-worktime blogging etc. They will have a different worldview. This I think has significant implications for the professions in particular. But that's my bias in the first place. I’m pretty sure we’re agreed on this but maybe not the emphasis. There is an assumption that people will not make distinctions between work and home life. I’m not wholly convinced, even among teenagers who are arguably the first generation to have been exposed to computers from an early stage in their lives.

My 16 year old son Joe ‘lives’ in MySpace outside of school but well understands the need to learn and use programs that require more than the ability to click a mouse and tap in a few text message style words while in school. As I see it, the way for software designers to overcome this ‘difference’ is to somehow make business usage fun in a non trivial way. I have no real clue how that might happen but it intuitively makes sense. At least to me!

It’s also important to remember that home computing isn’t ubiquitous. There are many sections of society that don’t have broadband, or, for that matter access to a home computer. So designers will need to take this into consideration as well. Perhaps more so.

Where I do think this idea has significant impact is for new graduate hires post 2010. My sense is that having been exposed to an online only world, they’ll ask pointed questions about on premise, IT support, IT strictures, policies about in-worktime blogging etc. They will have a different worldview.

This I think has significant implications for the professions in particular. But that’s my bias in the first place.

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