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Jack Vinson of Knowledge Jolt with Jack recently published a post titled Share it, don’t just store it. We share Jack’s perspective that just storing information is pointless. The value is in knowing what you have, where it can be found and putting it to use. In response to Jack’s post I wrote: “Incentives and relationships are [...]

26 Aug 10 Myopia and self-interest hurt government, business, community and family

Vinnie Mirchandani over at Deal Architect wrote another great post titled Alarming IT data points. In it he discusses everything from external dependencies and a lack of innovation at IT companies, to what he believes to be out-of-control costs and a shift in CIO focus. In response to Vinnie’s post I wrote: Vinnie, all of this boils down, [...]

21 Aug 10 Relationships are broken, not just in Big Tech

Vinnie Mirchandani over at Deal Architect recently wrote a post titled Big Tech is Broken - badly. In it he wrote that he has “never seen this much acknowledgement that our big technology companies are inefficient organisms” The disappointment and discontentment (with product and process) has always been there. I experienced it nearly every day in my former [...]

19 Aug 10 Devil’s advocate on open source

I just finished reading Mark Taylor’s recently published blog post Open Source: It’s not just cheap!–one of thousands written about the benefits and pitfalls of open source software. In his post, Mark referenced a Frank Scavo quotation from Chris Kanaracus’s July 2010 article about Open Source ERP. Apparently Frank, an IT consultant, wrote the following comment [...]