...integration will converge into the same set of activities — finding the functionality you need and connecting it into a functioning application. Sure it will. Of course, building something useful...…
...team to describe a specific interaction between IT and the rest of the business — both how it happens now (a scary campfire story) and how it should happen (a...…
...we not lost interest, it might have happened. Instead, our interest in cyberspace exceeds our interest in outer space. Am I the only one who thinks something is fundamentally wrong?...…
...that involves no external data. But medical information doesn’t stay within any single corporation. For both treatment and payment purposes, medical records, including insurance information, has to be shared externally,...…
...and insight. The reason we do (or at least should) trust science is because it’s a self-correcting process designed to compensate for the all-too-human scientists who practice it. Example (and...…
...your repertoire. That just might be the best reason to bring in a consultant — to help you when the problem is that you don’t know what you don’t know....…
...for genes, as Richard Dawkins proposed when he originally coined the term “meme.” Then substitute patents, trademarks, copyrights, non*]}*-compete and non-disclosure agreements for the biological barriers to interspecies gene sharing....…
...when there aren’t enough people left to run it. Lesson for IT, and for anyone else engaged in an outsource: Once you announce the decision, finish the hand-off before the...…
...There is, for example, the sysadmin known as PiN, as in Pain in Neck. You know who I’m talking about — the guy who communes with the servers and can...…
...provides a sense of how they’re situated in their competitive landscape. This is invaluable. And finally, Bain & Company, the folks who own and administer NPS, are in a position...…