...this conclusion is reliable: Way too many companies are way too sloppy about identity management. We’re talking about the basics, not anything fancy. Lots of companies provision new employees by...…
...I contended last week — that he’s serious about utility computing in the electrical generation sense. In the deregulated electrical power industry, generation companies pump 60-cycle current onto the grid,...…
...end-user community. This really happened. It probably has really happened in company after company. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit to learn that someone has enshrined “maximizing technician productivity in...…
...because we’re ultimately responsible for the decisions, too. Except that answer doesn’t always work. A computer-controlled traffic light is an easy-to-understand and inarguable example, because overriding the computer’s recommended course...…
...Amazon.com when it first expanded into consumer electronics and, oh, by the way, to crush Circuit City as an afterthought, instead chose to view Circuit City as the competitor that...…
...better have mastered semantics — the difference between computers not understanding us and computers misunderstanding us. Think speech-to-text software on a very off day, only with much more severe consequences....…
...exceptions to this complaint — points out how poorly SaaS has been accepted in real-world (as opposed to press-released) enterprises. Other than SalesForce.com, where is it? (See “Rewriting the SaaS...…
...of innocent employees who did their jobs competently but whose roles are no longer needed because of the business change you helped the company achieve. Companies are getting better at...…
...though, was how many respondents told me the enterprise “never stopped running on the mainframe.” This contingent disputed my assertion that a company’s work is performed by individual human beings,...…
...can be the source of aggravating lawsuits or complaints to the EEOC or OSHA. They’re the reason executives have to spend excessive time communicating, paying attention to the company culture,...…
