a blog about information
A colleague of mine, Mike Persaud, pointed me at this report from IBM, the Global Innovation Outlook 2.0. [An aside: Preparing for this post, I Googled “IBM GIO”. And got nearly half a million results. The first three all related to what I was looking for. Which is good. But the first entry was titled … Continue reading “Four Pillars: Parallel and not serial”
A prefatory note: I am not ashamed of being called Utopian. When I started full-time “work” nearly thirty years ago, straight out of university, I had no idea what to expect. So I imagined that work was a natural extension of university. And for me, university was a natural extension of school: I attended a … Continue reading “Four Pillars: On learning and opensource: A long post”
I’m going to be lazy and use parts of Wikipedia’s summary of The Mythical Man-Month. And make a few assertions as to why we may need to revisit the whole shebang. Yup, another very provisional post. More musing than thinking. The Mythical Man-Month: When we develop for the web, are there really any more large … Continue reading “Four Pillars: Time to rethink Frederick Brooks?”
You may remember that in a recent post of mine, I linked to an essay by Paul Graham on What Business Can Learn from Open Source. Fascinating essay. I hadn’t read much of Paul since his LISP days, just the occasional wander over to his site. My bad. Reading that essay made me go out … Continue reading “On Hackers and Painters and Education and Bonding and Risk and Nanny Languages”
The kernel for this snowball was Metric 2.0‘s question in a recent comment on one of my posts. Does IT have strategic value? I shall resist the temptation to quote Paul Strassmann or Nicholas Carr, or even to rebut them. My thoughts on this are simple: First, you can no longer separate information and communication … Continue reading “On the Strategic Value of IT”