IT in the Age of Globalization. Keynote speech from the GSE Nordic Conference 2006 - before the financial crisis. It was meant as a presentation on “Hey, Who Stole my Computer” requested the year before at Riga one late evening over a glass of good beer.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Michael Erichsen at the Nordic Region Technical Conference in Oslo in May 2006. The presentation discusses various trends in IT and globalization but does not provide definitive conclusions or directions. It touches on topics like paradigm shifts, foresight techniques, computing platforms, data-centric vs process-centric approaches, centralization vs decentralization, mobile computing, innovation, globalization, and changes in the IT industry. The presentation is intended to provoke thought and discussion rather than provide answers.
This whitepaper discusses the concept of "Workspace", which refers to enabling people to work from any location through flexible technology solutions. It outlines four key areas of Workspace: 1) Visual Communications involving video conferencing, 2) Universal Communications for collaboration through voice, video and messaging, 3) Mobility through mobile devices and flexible working, and 4) End User Computing of applications and information. The document argues that businesses must adapt to changing work styles and expectations of new generations by embracing flexible technologies to access data and applications from any device. This involves "decoupling" applications and data from devices through secure access layers to provide a consistent experience across all endpoints.
Ronald Damhof developed the Data Quadrant Model to help organizations better discuss and manage their data. The model maps data based on two dimensions: the data push/pull point and development style. This produces four quadrants - quadrant I contains standardized source data, quadrant II systematic information products, quadrant III ungoverned data sources, and quadrant IV experimental research and innovation. The model helps organizations understand where their data sits and how to move data between the quadrants to unlock value in a governed way.
DevOps is not enough - Embedding DevOps in a broader contextUwe Friedrichsen
DevOps is not enough on its own to address the challenges of today's highly dynamic markets. While DevOps aims to optimize flow, feedback loops, and continuous learning, embedding it in a broader context is needed. This requires rethinking IT approaches to focus on goals like speed, effectiveness, and continuous improvement. Achieving these goals involves changes across processes, governance, organization, people, and technology, not just DevOps practices alone.
This document provides a summary of an article from the DITY newsletter published by itSM Solutions. The article discusses how IT organizations often get caught up in daily fires and fail to consider what business activities are truly important. It recommends that IT leaders examine what business they are really in and refocus resources only on important activities. The article uses an analogy of boiled frogs to illustrate how IT can fail to notice gradual changes in their environment. It advocates that IT adopt a new paradigm of being a service provider focused on core business activities that drive competitive advantage. A two-dimensional grid is presented to help categorize activities by importance to determine where to focus resources.
The hitchhiker's guide for the confused developerUwe Friedrichsen
This talk is basically a successor of the "DevOps is not enough talk", but with a broader focus.
In the talk, after a short motivation, I try to take stock of the current state of IT from different points of view. After looking at, where we came from and where we are, I add the most important trends I currently see that affect us in IT.
But knowing where we came from, where we are and where we are going to usually is not enough. The key point is using this information - in this talk for evaluating your current position as a software engineer and figuring out your desired future position.
As all the details from the first part of the talk make it hard to do this evaluation, I suggest creating a model (actually a framework) on a reduced detail level that makes the evaluation and planning easier. Defining that framework is the third part of the talk.
Finally, the last part consists of some general recommendations that - based on my understanding - help you as a software engineer to stay ahead of the curve for a while.
While this is extremely much stuff (I really consider to split that plethora of information covered in this talk up in several, single-topic talks) and as always the voice track is missing, I still hope that the slide deck gives you a few ideas worth pondering.
Paper which discusses the notion that Data is NOT the "new Oil". We hear copious amounts said that Data is an asset, it's got to be managed, few people in the business understand it & so on. The phrase "Data is the new Oil" gets used many times, yet is rarely (if ever) justified. This paper is aimed to raise the level of debate from a subliminal nod to a conscious examination of the characteristics of different "assets" (particularly Oil) and to compare them with those of the 'Data asset".
Written by Christopher Bradley, CDMP Fellow, VP Professional Development DAMA International & 38 years Information Management experience, much of it in the Oil & Gas industry.
The average life cycle of organisations has changed from 90 years in 1935 to 12 1/2 years. The absorption of new (information) technology is one of the core competences to stay competitive. Many organisations are facing problems when implementing new (information) technology solutions.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Michael Erichsen at the Nordic Region Technical Conference in Oslo in May 2006. The presentation discusses various trends in IT and globalization but does not provide definitive conclusions or directions. It touches on topics like paradigm shifts, foresight techniques, computing platforms, data-centric vs process-centric approaches, centralization vs decentralization, mobile computing, innovation, globalization, and changes in the IT industry. The presentation is intended to provoke thought and discussion rather than provide answers.
This whitepaper discusses the concept of "Workspace", which refers to enabling people to work from any location through flexible technology solutions. It outlines four key areas of Workspace: 1) Visual Communications involving video conferencing, 2) Universal Communications for collaboration through voice, video and messaging, 3) Mobility through mobile devices and flexible working, and 4) End User Computing of applications and information. The document argues that businesses must adapt to changing work styles and expectations of new generations by embracing flexible technologies to access data and applications from any device. This involves "decoupling" applications and data from devices through secure access layers to provide a consistent experience across all endpoints.
Ronald Damhof developed the Data Quadrant Model to help organizations better discuss and manage their data. The model maps data based on two dimensions: the data push/pull point and development style. This produces four quadrants - quadrant I contains standardized source data, quadrant II systematic information products, quadrant III ungoverned data sources, and quadrant IV experimental research and innovation. The model helps organizations understand where their data sits and how to move data between the quadrants to unlock value in a governed way.
DevOps is not enough - Embedding DevOps in a broader contextUwe Friedrichsen
DevOps is not enough on its own to address the challenges of today's highly dynamic markets. While DevOps aims to optimize flow, feedback loops, and continuous learning, embedding it in a broader context is needed. This requires rethinking IT approaches to focus on goals like speed, effectiveness, and continuous improvement. Achieving these goals involves changes across processes, governance, organization, people, and technology, not just DevOps practices alone.
This document provides a summary of an article from the DITY newsletter published by itSM Solutions. The article discusses how IT organizations often get caught up in daily fires and fail to consider what business activities are truly important. It recommends that IT leaders examine what business they are really in and refocus resources only on important activities. The article uses an analogy of boiled frogs to illustrate how IT can fail to notice gradual changes in their environment. It advocates that IT adopt a new paradigm of being a service provider focused on core business activities that drive competitive advantage. A two-dimensional grid is presented to help categorize activities by importance to determine where to focus resources.
The hitchhiker's guide for the confused developerUwe Friedrichsen
This talk is basically a successor of the "DevOps is not enough talk", but with a broader focus.
In the talk, after a short motivation, I try to take stock of the current state of IT from different points of view. After looking at, where we came from and where we are, I add the most important trends I currently see that affect us in IT.
But knowing where we came from, where we are and where we are going to usually is not enough. The key point is using this information - in this talk for evaluating your current position as a software engineer and figuring out your desired future position.
As all the details from the first part of the talk make it hard to do this evaluation, I suggest creating a model (actually a framework) on a reduced detail level that makes the evaluation and planning easier. Defining that framework is the third part of the talk.
Finally, the last part consists of some general recommendations that - based on my understanding - help you as a software engineer to stay ahead of the curve for a while.
While this is extremely much stuff (I really consider to split that plethora of information covered in this talk up in several, single-topic talks) and as always the voice track is missing, I still hope that the slide deck gives you a few ideas worth pondering.
Paper which discusses the notion that Data is NOT the "new Oil". We hear copious amounts said that Data is an asset, it's got to be managed, few people in the business understand it & so on. The phrase "Data is the new Oil" gets used many times, yet is rarely (if ever) justified. This paper is aimed to raise the level of debate from a subliminal nod to a conscious examination of the characteristics of different "assets" (particularly Oil) and to compare them with those of the 'Data asset".
Written by Christopher Bradley, CDMP Fellow, VP Professional Development DAMA International & 38 years Information Management experience, much of it in the Oil & Gas industry.
The average life cycle of organisations has changed from 90 years in 1935 to 12 1/2 years. The absorption of new (information) technology is one of the core competences to stay competitive. Many organisations are facing problems when implementing new (information) technology solutions.
iStart - feature: The anatomy of technology as a change agentHayden McCall
The joint forces of data analytics, mobile solutions, social
applications and cloud computing are disrupting whole
industries and forcing change. Businesses that do not
adapt are in danger of becoming extinct. Chris Bell
asks the experts if change today actually begins with
technology, and whether it should...
Mark Smalley presents on his favorite IT paradigms and career perspectives over the past 10 years. He discusses frameworks like ASL, ITIL, BiSL and standards like ISO. He also covers paradigms like demand-supply-use, Cynefin, disruptive innovation, and questions versus answers. Smalley emphasizes finding happiness and usefulness in one's career, which may involve reinvention and refocusing over time as things change. He encourages connecting with others for new perspectives.
This is the slide deck of a keynote I gave at Java Forum Nord 2016.
I started with some of the contradictory requirements, developers find themselves often confronted with and the question, if there is a bigger context that we can use to make sense of it.
Then I did a bit of "time-traveling", explaining where we came from and how business and IT have evolved over time. The core finding was that we find ourselves in the middle of a revolution that is going on (not only) in IT.
The last part were some recommendations how an IT developer can at least reduce the risk to become "revolution roadkill".
As always most of the content was on the voice track. But maybe the slides are still a bit helpful on their own.
Are You Ready to Disrupt It?’ is a unique knowledge safari into the wilderness of a new type of innovation which has emerged in the business world as well as in the research arena: Disruptive Innovation.
The book is the culmination of a project by The EU Disrupt-IT project consortium, reflecting the collaboration of experts from 6 countries. The consortium was formed in 2002 to develop a methodology and supporting software for enabling and catalysing the creation of new products, services and business models which have the potential to disrupt their markets.
The book conceptually clarifies some of the phenomena related to the realities of disruptive innovation, like:
“Low-end” market vs. New market disruptive innovation
Technological vs. Business Model disruptive innovation
The challenge of “Crossing the Chasm”
The book offers a comprehensive toolkit to foster disruptive innovation: this includes a “Knowledge Safari”, “Idea Pipeline software”, a “Disruptive Portfolio Management Tool”, an “Opportunity Recognition Workshop”, the “DI Compass” and an “Innovation Ecology Portal”.
Detailed descriptions of real case studies complemented by a utopian urban story enrich the concepts and make the complex and intangible ideas come alive.
The lively graphics and illustrations that enrich the insights in the text reflect the consortium’s philosophy that visualisation is an effective method of conveying, and absorbing, new ideas.
The Disrupt-IT project was co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technology (IST) programme, which is a fertile ground for leading edge Knowledge Management research.
This document discusses home working and how organizations interpret it in different ways. It begins by outlining 5 different scenarios for how organizations view home working - from using home as an overflow space occasionally to seeing home as the primary work hub. It then discusses how organizations can have different perspectives on home working based on factors like their size, whether they are public or private, their cultural heritage, and whether the perspective comes from managers or employees. External factors like the economic climate, green agendas, and generational differences are also discussed as influencing organizational perspectives on home working.
The document discusses the concept of Enterprise 2.0, which refers to the use of social software platforms within companies. It provides definitions of Enterprise 2.0 from experts in the field. The presentation then discusses how the digital revolution is disrupting businesses and the landscape for managing business through digital technologies. It explores how businesses are using social media and case studies of how companies have embraced Enterprise 2.0 practices like knowledge management and new product development.
This slide deck dives a bit in history to understand where IT comes from, where we are now and why we are there and what our options are. It starts with exploring the paradigms of the markets companies live in, travels through matching organizational approaches and finally looks at the history and current state of IT.
Based on that and after a quick look at Conway's law the market paradigms and organizational approaches are evaluated with respect to the drivers they imply on IT in general and architecture particularly.
And after all that foreplay (which is necessary to really understand where we are and what the forces are) several architectural styles and technologies are located on the scale that the market paradigms and organizational approaches span. This way sort of an "architectural fitness detector" is provided which helps to make architectural choices based on needs instead of hypes or habits (which are way to often the choice drivers).
The slide deck then finishes up with a few mismatches that are seen quite often in reality and it can be seen how the distance between architectural choices on the presented scale can be used to quickly determine potential mismatches.
As always the voice track is missing but I hope that the slides are still of some help for you.
Craig Rispin, Futurist presents to the Institute of Management Consultants - ...Craig Rispin
The Business, People & Technology Trends Driving Change in the Consulting Industry Globally. Craig Rispin presented this keynote speech to the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC.org.au) on 9 April 2013
Big Data, IoT and The Third Industrial Revolutionglobexspain
This document provides an overview of a session on emerging business tools for a new social and economic order in the context of the third industrial revolution. It discusses how exponential technologies like the Internet of Things, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence will transform business, society, and the self by redefining the work framework. It notes that human labor is ending and these tools offer huge emerging opportunities and threats. The document outlines several talks that will explore designing a new economic and social order, the importance of data science skills, and new business opportunities in areas like personalized medicine, security, and life logging through connected sensors.
The DNA of Data Quality and the Data GenomeJohn Owens
This document provides an overview of a presentation by John Owens on the topic of "The DNA of Data Quality". Some key points:
1. John Owens is an international speaker and advisor on topics related to data quality, business transformation, and integrated information management. He has worked with large companies globally.
2. Owens discusses how in the past, before computers, information was seen as the most valuable asset for businesses and was owned and managed by the business functions that utilized it.
3. However, after executives became overwhelmed by computer terminology, they abdicated responsibility for information to IT departments, separating it from business functions - likened to splitting the DNA double helix.
4. Owens argues that
Article visualizing action - innovation dailyDebra M. Amidon
The document describes a study analyzing the Boston innovation ecosystem using network analysis tools. It identifies 15 factors that contribute to innovation success and measures relationships between organizations in Boston across these factors. The analysis found that Boston scores highly on these innovation metrics, explaining its reputation as a global innovation leader. Key organizations in Boston like MIT, innovation districts, universities, and startups were mapped in a network to understand collaboration and knowledge sharing dynamics that promote innovation in the region.
Rethinking the Organization in the Platform AgeDavid Terrar
My keynote form the Enterprise Digital Summit London on 16 November 2017 covering:
- About the new business landscape
- The Digital Enterprise Wave gets higher
- How do you transform?
- 8 Strategic Building Blocks
- Digital Transformation – a definition
- 10 trends to watch
- The key ingredients and a crucial skill
The document discusses innovation in digital media and provides several key points:
1) It defines different types of innovation according to Schumpeter, including new products/services, new processes, new markets, new supply sources, and changes in organization.
2) It notes that while companies focus on innovations as opportunities/threats, it's important to also consider innovation itself as a principle.
3) Systemic problems in innovation are discussed, including issues around implementation, infrastructure, transitions between technologies, lock-in effects, and more.
4) Models for understanding innovation are presented, such as systems of innovation, horizontal networks, and Christensen's 4D framework of displacement, distraction, discontinuity,
The document provides a historical overview of e-business and discusses early models before the rise of the World Wide Web. It describes how expectations and investments in internet-based businesses ballooned in the late 1990s, fueling a dot-com bubble. While many new companies failed, the boom prompted more analysis of emerging e-business models and the factors influencing their success or failure, such as mobilizing complementary assets and establishing a dominant design paradigm.
Elements of crowdsourcing business models with a few examples from startups and larger organizations including Mealku, Kickstarter, AirBnB, LEGO Cuusoo, Taskrabbit, Betacup, Giffgaff and GAP + Threadless.
Future Tech: How should enterprise avoid the 'success trap' of the next big t...Livingstone Advisory
The rate of business and societal change fuelled by innovative, emerging and disruptive information technologies is well known, with impacts being felt in almost every facet of life. The forces driving the evolution and adoption of such technologies are complex, diverse and not always well understood. How can organisations predict the consequences of future tech? How should they fortify against the chaos of change while taking advantage of innovation?
This public lecture provides a concise perspective on the implications of emerging technologies and offers practical insights on how many enterprises and individuals survive, and also thrive, in a world of rapid technology-induced change.
A folia é um produto natural que ajuda a eliminar gordura localizada, tonificar os músculos e estimular o sistema imunológico. Pesquisas mostraram que as substâncias presentes na folia garantem alto poder antioxidante e estimulam o metabolismo a eliminar gordura, especialmente na região abdominal. Ao ingerir três xícaras de folia por dia, é possível reduzir a circunferência abdominal em até 10% e perder cerca de seis quilos em dois a três meses, combinando com alimentação saudável e exercíci
Waddesdon Wednesday Club Success Story FinalHelen Cavill
The Wednesday Club is a charity-run day club that has been operating for 35 years in Waddesdon, UK. It provides social activities and meals for older residents to reduce isolation. Maintaining enough volunteers is a challenge, but Community Impact Bucks has provided crucial support through referrals, training, promotion, and assistance with transportation. This support has helped ensure volunteer screening and allowed the club to thrive while serving its members.
iStart - feature: The anatomy of technology as a change agentHayden McCall
The joint forces of data analytics, mobile solutions, social
applications and cloud computing are disrupting whole
industries and forcing change. Businesses that do not
adapt are in danger of becoming extinct. Chris Bell
asks the experts if change today actually begins with
technology, and whether it should...
Mark Smalley presents on his favorite IT paradigms and career perspectives over the past 10 years. He discusses frameworks like ASL, ITIL, BiSL and standards like ISO. He also covers paradigms like demand-supply-use, Cynefin, disruptive innovation, and questions versus answers. Smalley emphasizes finding happiness and usefulness in one's career, which may involve reinvention and refocusing over time as things change. He encourages connecting with others for new perspectives.
This is the slide deck of a keynote I gave at Java Forum Nord 2016.
I started with some of the contradictory requirements, developers find themselves often confronted with and the question, if there is a bigger context that we can use to make sense of it.
Then I did a bit of "time-traveling", explaining where we came from and how business and IT have evolved over time. The core finding was that we find ourselves in the middle of a revolution that is going on (not only) in IT.
The last part were some recommendations how an IT developer can at least reduce the risk to become "revolution roadkill".
As always most of the content was on the voice track. But maybe the slides are still a bit helpful on their own.
Are You Ready to Disrupt It?’ is a unique knowledge safari into the wilderness of a new type of innovation which has emerged in the business world as well as in the research arena: Disruptive Innovation.
The book is the culmination of a project by The EU Disrupt-IT project consortium, reflecting the collaboration of experts from 6 countries. The consortium was formed in 2002 to develop a methodology and supporting software for enabling and catalysing the creation of new products, services and business models which have the potential to disrupt their markets.
The book conceptually clarifies some of the phenomena related to the realities of disruptive innovation, like:
“Low-end” market vs. New market disruptive innovation
Technological vs. Business Model disruptive innovation
The challenge of “Crossing the Chasm”
The book offers a comprehensive toolkit to foster disruptive innovation: this includes a “Knowledge Safari”, “Idea Pipeline software”, a “Disruptive Portfolio Management Tool”, an “Opportunity Recognition Workshop”, the “DI Compass” and an “Innovation Ecology Portal”.
Detailed descriptions of real case studies complemented by a utopian urban story enrich the concepts and make the complex and intangible ideas come alive.
The lively graphics and illustrations that enrich the insights in the text reflect the consortium’s philosophy that visualisation is an effective method of conveying, and absorbing, new ideas.
The Disrupt-IT project was co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technology (IST) programme, which is a fertile ground for leading edge Knowledge Management research.
This document discusses home working and how organizations interpret it in different ways. It begins by outlining 5 different scenarios for how organizations view home working - from using home as an overflow space occasionally to seeing home as the primary work hub. It then discusses how organizations can have different perspectives on home working based on factors like their size, whether they are public or private, their cultural heritage, and whether the perspective comes from managers or employees. External factors like the economic climate, green agendas, and generational differences are also discussed as influencing organizational perspectives on home working.
The document discusses the concept of Enterprise 2.0, which refers to the use of social software platforms within companies. It provides definitions of Enterprise 2.0 from experts in the field. The presentation then discusses how the digital revolution is disrupting businesses and the landscape for managing business through digital technologies. It explores how businesses are using social media and case studies of how companies have embraced Enterprise 2.0 practices like knowledge management and new product development.
This slide deck dives a bit in history to understand where IT comes from, where we are now and why we are there and what our options are. It starts with exploring the paradigms of the markets companies live in, travels through matching organizational approaches and finally looks at the history and current state of IT.
Based on that and after a quick look at Conway's law the market paradigms and organizational approaches are evaluated with respect to the drivers they imply on IT in general and architecture particularly.
And after all that foreplay (which is necessary to really understand where we are and what the forces are) several architectural styles and technologies are located on the scale that the market paradigms and organizational approaches span. This way sort of an "architectural fitness detector" is provided which helps to make architectural choices based on needs instead of hypes or habits (which are way to often the choice drivers).
The slide deck then finishes up with a few mismatches that are seen quite often in reality and it can be seen how the distance between architectural choices on the presented scale can be used to quickly determine potential mismatches.
As always the voice track is missing but I hope that the slides are still of some help for you.
Craig Rispin, Futurist presents to the Institute of Management Consultants - ...Craig Rispin
The Business, People & Technology Trends Driving Change in the Consulting Industry Globally. Craig Rispin presented this keynote speech to the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC.org.au) on 9 April 2013
Big Data, IoT and The Third Industrial Revolutionglobexspain
This document provides an overview of a session on emerging business tools for a new social and economic order in the context of the third industrial revolution. It discusses how exponential technologies like the Internet of Things, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence will transform business, society, and the self by redefining the work framework. It notes that human labor is ending and these tools offer huge emerging opportunities and threats. The document outlines several talks that will explore designing a new economic and social order, the importance of data science skills, and new business opportunities in areas like personalized medicine, security, and life logging through connected sensors.
The DNA of Data Quality and the Data GenomeJohn Owens
This document provides an overview of a presentation by John Owens on the topic of "The DNA of Data Quality". Some key points:
1. John Owens is an international speaker and advisor on topics related to data quality, business transformation, and integrated information management. He has worked with large companies globally.
2. Owens discusses how in the past, before computers, information was seen as the most valuable asset for businesses and was owned and managed by the business functions that utilized it.
3. However, after executives became overwhelmed by computer terminology, they abdicated responsibility for information to IT departments, separating it from business functions - likened to splitting the DNA double helix.
4. Owens argues that
Article visualizing action - innovation dailyDebra M. Amidon
The document describes a study analyzing the Boston innovation ecosystem using network analysis tools. It identifies 15 factors that contribute to innovation success and measures relationships between organizations in Boston across these factors. The analysis found that Boston scores highly on these innovation metrics, explaining its reputation as a global innovation leader. Key organizations in Boston like MIT, innovation districts, universities, and startups were mapped in a network to understand collaboration and knowledge sharing dynamics that promote innovation in the region.
Rethinking the Organization in the Platform AgeDavid Terrar
My keynote form the Enterprise Digital Summit London on 16 November 2017 covering:
- About the new business landscape
- The Digital Enterprise Wave gets higher
- How do you transform?
- 8 Strategic Building Blocks
- Digital Transformation – a definition
- 10 trends to watch
- The key ingredients and a crucial skill
The document discusses innovation in digital media and provides several key points:
1) It defines different types of innovation according to Schumpeter, including new products/services, new processes, new markets, new supply sources, and changes in organization.
2) It notes that while companies focus on innovations as opportunities/threats, it's important to also consider innovation itself as a principle.
3) Systemic problems in innovation are discussed, including issues around implementation, infrastructure, transitions between technologies, lock-in effects, and more.
4) Models for understanding innovation are presented, such as systems of innovation, horizontal networks, and Christensen's 4D framework of displacement, distraction, discontinuity,
The document provides a historical overview of e-business and discusses early models before the rise of the World Wide Web. It describes how expectations and investments in internet-based businesses ballooned in the late 1990s, fueling a dot-com bubble. While many new companies failed, the boom prompted more analysis of emerging e-business models and the factors influencing their success or failure, such as mobilizing complementary assets and establishing a dominant design paradigm.
Elements of crowdsourcing business models with a few examples from startups and larger organizations including Mealku, Kickstarter, AirBnB, LEGO Cuusoo, Taskrabbit, Betacup, Giffgaff and GAP + Threadless.
Future Tech: How should enterprise avoid the 'success trap' of the next big t...Livingstone Advisory
The rate of business and societal change fuelled by innovative, emerging and disruptive information technologies is well known, with impacts being felt in almost every facet of life. The forces driving the evolution and adoption of such technologies are complex, diverse and not always well understood. How can organisations predict the consequences of future tech? How should they fortify against the chaos of change while taking advantage of innovation?
This public lecture provides a concise perspective on the implications of emerging technologies and offers practical insights on how many enterprises and individuals survive, and also thrive, in a world of rapid technology-induced change.
A folia é um produto natural que ajuda a eliminar gordura localizada, tonificar os músculos e estimular o sistema imunológico. Pesquisas mostraram que as substâncias presentes na folia garantem alto poder antioxidante e estimulam o metabolismo a eliminar gordura, especialmente na região abdominal. Ao ingerir três xícaras de folia por dia, é possível reduzir a circunferência abdominal em até 10% e perder cerca de seis quilos em dois a três meses, combinando com alimentação saudável e exercíci
Waddesdon Wednesday Club Success Story FinalHelen Cavill
The Wednesday Club is a charity-run day club that has been operating for 35 years in Waddesdon, UK. It provides social activities and meals for older residents to reduce isolation. Maintaining enough volunteers is a challenge, but Community Impact Bucks has provided crucial support through referrals, training, promotion, and assistance with transportation. This support has helped ensure volunteer screening and allowed the club to thrive while serving its members.
Buckinghamshire Mind is a local charity that provides mental health services and advocates for those with mental health needs. They face challenges recruiting volunteers but receiving support from Community Impact Bucks has helped with promotion, training, and connecting them with potential volunteers. This support has resulted in 8 volunteers being referred through the Volunteer Hub and over 15 volunteer applications collected at a recruitment fair organized by Community Impact Bucks. Staff and volunteers have also provided positive feedback on the valuable vulnerable adults awareness training provided for free through the Volunteer Hub.
Este documento discute la ética profesional en los medios audiovisuales. Explica que la ética es el estudio de lo moral y el buen vivir. En los medios, los profesionales deben respetar normas como los derechos de autor. El periodismo tiene una gran responsabilidad de informar de manera objetiva. La deontología profesional periodística establece normas para la profesión basadas en la responsabilidad social y la veracidad. Sin embargo, a menudo los intereses económicos priman sobre la ética.
This document provides an overview of the animal kingdom by discussing key characteristics of animals and describing their classification. It outlines that animals are eukaryotic, motile, heterotrophic organisms without cell walls. It then discusses the importance of animals and the phylogeny of the kingdom, showing animals evolved from colonial flagellated protists. It proceeds to describe the classification of animals based on body symmetry, germ layers, and presence of a coelom. Major animal groups are then outlined, including invertebrates like sponges, cnidarians, protostomes and deuterostomes like echinoderms. Finally, it focuses on the phylum Chordata, describing the success of vertebr
This document describes guidelines for the treatment of sepsis. It defines terms like sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock. It describes the pathophysiology of sepsis including the role of the microcirculation. It outlines the sepsis management bundle which includes measuring lactate, administering antibiotics and fluids within 3 hours, and maintaining mean arterial pressure above 65 mmHg within 6 hours. It stresses the importance of optimizing both macrocirculation and microcirculation to prevent mitochondrial injury.
The document describes a meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains in February 2013 with the force of an atomic bomb, injuring hundreds. It was estimated to be around 10 tons and entered the atmosphere at 54,000 kph. The document then provides information on meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites, describing their differences. It also discusses asteroids, noting their size range and that they are found in asteroid belts. Finally, it briefly touches on comets, their composition of rock, ice and gas, and how their tails form from solar radiation.
O documento descreve as quatro estações do ano - primavera, verão, outono e inverno - e suas características climáticas e atividades associadas. A primavera é quando a natureza floresce. No verão, as pessoas aproveitam as praias e férias. No outono, as folhas caem das árvores e esfria. No inverno, chove muito e pode nevar em alguns lugares.
O documento propõe uma atividade sobre as estações do ano para alunos do 3o ano do ensino fundamental. Os alunos serão divididos em grupos para pesquisar e apresentar informações sobre as características de cada estação em um mural a ser feito.
The document discusses a vocational rehabilitation program that provides supported volunteering opportunities to people with acquired brain injuries or other disabilities to help develop skills and confidence for employment. It notes that finding suitable volunteer placements that match an individual's capabilities is important for their rehabilitation. Having specialists that understand disabilities is crucial to properly assess individuals and place them in positions where they can succeed. The supported volunteering services helps disadvantaged community members with disabilities gain work experience through volunteering.
This document contains information about an IT and managerial perspectives module, including the schedule, resources, assessment criteria, and facilitator profile. It discusses topics that will be covered such as social media, cloud computing, security, mobility, and various technology companies. The module aims to explore how enterprise technologies can improve organizational performance and the link between IT and managerial perspective. Students will be evaluated based on company relations, participation in discussions, and a video case study. The facilitator, Lee Schlenker, works to leverage networks, processes and technology to enhance individual and corporate performance through his company LHST.
First of a set of four presentations on e-business to students at Higher School of Economics, Moscow. This one presents some of the very first efforts to create online business (after remote computer sharing way back), and takes us trhough to the dot com bubble and the growth of thinking about Business Models.
The document discusses innovation and change in technology. It covers topics like resilience, the impact of cheap technology, virtual worlds like Second Life, and how search engines and social computing are changing how people access and share information. It provides examples of technologies and trends from 2007-2008 that were transforming how people use the internet.
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- The course structure which explores context, methods/technologies, case studies, and evaluation metrics.
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The document provides an overview of how to run an implementation project using ZD&T. It describes preparing by identifying requirements, installing a pilot baseline system, configuring the system, integrating host data, applications and configurations, pilot testing, and then designing a long-term system including developing processes and tools.
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Opening keynote at GSE Nordic conference in Reykjavik 2016.
I have also put the whole presentation on Youtube including all videos. It is located at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNgpiKM6kfg
It is recorded not with my own voice and flat Danish pronunciation, but with a synthetic voice. Which might be quite suitable for the subject.
The imbedded videos are reterieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-4mp_e5v4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-vS0WcJyNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZPNwZex9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlbQsKpq3Ak
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Open source database for logs
● Easy to setup and operate - just a single executable with sane default configs
● Works great with both structured and plaintext logs
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○ TCP
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● Log analytics
● Data extraction and transformation
● Additional filtering
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● VMUI improvements based on HTTP querying API
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Trends but No Directions
1. Nordic Region Technical Conference
Oslo, May 2006
Michael Erichsen, CSC
Trends, but No Directions?
IT in the Age of Globalization
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Purpose of this
Presentation
Not really to answer questions, but to try to ask them
CAUTION:
The speaker does NOT necessarily have any deep knowledge in
the areas discussed
The presentation consists mainly of unsubstantiated statements,
unfounded prejudice, and loose claims ripped off the Internet
A complete literature list would be longer than the presentation
But perhaps we could draw some perspective and inspiration
when considering the many confusing trends
The thoughts, opinions, and considerations are the speaker’s
own, and not necessarily those of his company or of the GSE
Steering Committees
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Paradigm Shifts and
Foresight
“Paradigm Shifts” is a way of discussing changes in
the past by grouping them on a high level
“Foresight” is a technique used by Governments and
Universities to build scenarios to help them choose
policies to further their aims and strategies
Why are such methods important?
They can help us better understand the trends that affect our
countries, our companies, and the future of each of us
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Trends, but No Directions?
IT in the Age of
Globalization
Paradigm Shifts
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Scott Adams’ Own
Comment
If you can say
“Well, we are going to do a
paradigm here.
We're looking at different
models.
We'll run a few simulations
and put this together to see if
we can get a consensus.”
That sounds much better
than “I don't know”
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Brother, Can You Paradigm?
Thomas S. Kuhn:
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962):
Scientific advancement is not evolutionary
A series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually
violent revolutions, where one conceptual world view is
replaced by another
A Paradigm Shift is a change from one way of
thinking to another
It's a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It
just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of
change
As paraphrased by professor Frank Pajares
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Some Paradigm Shifts
Offshoring labour intensive work → Automation & Back-
shoring → Offshoring automated work
“EDP” a part of accounting → IT a strategic resource → dot.com
→ Cost containment → Innovation
Batch → On-line → Client/Server → Web → SOA
Decoupling of operating system, data, business processes,
presentation, business rules
Data Centric ↔ Process Centric
Data Entry ↔ Case Work
Stationary → Mobile
Centralized ↔ Decentralized
Top-Down ↔ Bottom-up ↔ Meet in the middle
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No attempt made to explain “Everything”
A theory has to be simpler
than the data it explains,
otherwise it does not explain
anything
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
in “Discours de
métaphysique”, 1686,
paraphrased by Gregory
Chaitin
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Offshoring of
Manufacturing
In the 1950’es manufacturing boomed, and workers were drawn
from the countryside to the factories
In the 1960’es workers were imported from abroad
In the 1970’es manufacturing was exported to the third world
“Footloose” industries, Free Trade Zones
Automation and robots demanded highly skilled workers
Some manufacturing was “backshored”
In the 1990’es a highly skilled Chinese workforce entered the
world market, and almost all manufacturing was re-offshored
Important to note that this has been a non-linear process
The consequences in Europe: Marginalization of unskilled labour
(to a high degree affecting imported workers and their children).
Fear of globalization (“Fortress Europe”)
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The Role of Information
Technology
IT entered companies as Data Processing (EDP), a subset of the
accounting department
Faster file handling, better calculations
As IT matured, and IT departments became more ambitious, they
promoted IT as a strategic resource
Seen by upper management as a trick to gain power
During the dot.com bubble, everybody rushed into e-something
ERP, CRM, SCM, EAI, Web…
The bubble burst, and cost containment ruled
IT must support cost cutting – and take a lot of cutbacks itself
Now focus is moving back from the bottom line to the top line
IT now must support Innovation to help companies compete
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Innovation is not the Same as Creativity
"Innovation… is generally understood as the introduction of a new thing
or method… Innovation is the embodiment, combination, or synthesis of
knowledge in original, relevant, valued new products, processes, or
services.“ (Luecke & Katz, 2003)
"All innovation begins with creative ideas… We define innovation as
the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.
In this view, creativity by individuals and teams is a starting point for
innovation; the first is necessary but not sufficient condition for the
second". (Amabile et al, 1996)
"Innovation, like many business functions, is a management process that
requires specific tools, rules, and discipline." (Davila et al, 2006)
Definitions taken from Wikipedia
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Six Myths of Creativity
Myth Research Results (Teresa Amabile, Harvard)
Creativity Comes From Creative
Types
Anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some
degree of creative work
Money Is a Creativity Motivator The handful of people spending a lot of time wondering about
their bonuses were doing very little creative thinking
Time Pressure Fuels Creativity Creativity requires an incubation period; people need time to
soak in a problem and let the ideas bubble up
Fear Forces Breakthroughs People are more likely to have a breakthrough if they were
happy the day before
Competition Beats Collaboration When people compete for recognition, they stop sharing
information
A Streamlined Organization Is a
Creative Organization
People's fear of the unknown led them to basically disengage
from the work
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The Computing Platform
Aiken’s Law, 1947: “Only 6
computers needed to perform all
calculations in the US”
Batch → On-line →
Client/Server/ERP/CRM →
Web → SOA → POA? EDA?
Something completely
different?
Driven by forces like
Technical inventions
Globalization
Business changes like mergers
and acquisitions
Changing expectations by
users, customers, and partners
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Decoupling
The first systems were tightly coupled Operating System-Data-
Business Logic-Presentation monoliths
Operating systems and applications were separated
Data was separated using database management systems
(network, hierarchical, relational etc.)
Presentation was separated using client/server, GUI, and Web
Interfaces
Application components were decoupled from each other using
APPC, EDI, RPC, RMI, and Web Services/SOAP
Business rules, processes, and control logic were separated using
Business Process Management Systems
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A Counter-Trend to
Decoupling
Case tools in the 1990’es like IEF/COOL:Gen derived
applications and data so strongly from business models that data
was effectively owned by specific applications
This is a problem for current reengineering projects, because an
enterprise data model is difficult to implement
Shrink-wrapped ERP packages like SAP and Siebel is a new
generation of monoliths
In practical life you cannot access or understand SAP relational data
outside the SAP system
SAP opens up to SOA architectures by defining itself as the core
and providing the ESB
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The Data Centric
Paradigm
The Data Centric paradigm was driven by Database Management
systems and decoupling of data
Built on a mathematical basis: Set Theory founded by Georg Cantor
Modelling starting from enterprise “master data”
Identities and attributes of customers, products, employees, and other core
reference data
Implemented in CRM, ERP, and other Shrink-wrapped systems of the 90’es
Backed by vendors like Oracle and SAP
Business Intelligence, OLAP, Data Mining, ETL, etc. can discover new
information from non-obvious patterns in large sets of data
Object orientation enhanced data with its inherent methods
Metadata makes data more independent of single applications
XML an excellent medium
Including both structured data (Databases) and unstructured data (email,
Office documents)
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The Process Centric
Paradigm
The Process Centric paradigm was driven by recent business changes,
SOA technologies and decoupling of processes
Built on a mathematical basis: π Calculus founded by Robin Milner et
al.
The processes of the enterprise is seen as the most important aspect
Sees databases as a place, where state is kept, when lights are out
Focus is moving to innovation
First generation SOA projects are often mainly technical integration
projects
Service-enablement of legacy systems and SOAP-interfaces exposes
functionality as services and prepares combination into business
processes that can be dynamically reconfigured
BPM systems are maturing and integrating with SOA technologies
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No More Waiting
Rooms?
Customers waiting in line,
spending hours in waiting
rooms, or rusting on telephone
queues are no longer deemed
acceptable
Office staff changes from data
entry clerks to case officers,
handling a case or a client “from
cradle to grave”
This drives continuous
improvement of processes,
higher degrees of automated and
IT-supported processes,
integration between systems,
and self service
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Computer Terminals become
Mobile
Teletype Terminals → green
screens → GUI → handheld
terminals/PDA’s/mobile
phones etc.
Gartner predicts that in the
future everybody will only
have laptops – and that we
will have to pay for them
ourselves, since we also use
them for private purposes
This sounds like a hit
among company chief
financial officers
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Centralize or
Decentralize
This set of paradigms has
regularly shifted back and
forth
And will probably continue
to do so
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Where to Start your Design Projects
The discussion about Top-Down or Bottom-up has been
running for years
Top-Down puts the business needs in focus
Bottom-Up provides robust building blocks to build any
application needed, and includes the possibility of buying 3rd
party components
The Business Process-Service Oriented design is becoming
popular by combining into “Meet in the Middle”
Business Process Analysis and Modelling should be guiding
your services design
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Trends, but No Directions?
IT in the Age of
Globalization
Foresight
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What is Foresight?
Foresight covers activities aiming at
thinking
debating
shaping the future
The driver is the complexity of
science, technology and society
interrelationships, the limitation of
financial resources, and the increasing
rate of scientific and technological
change
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Thinking, Debating, and Shaping the
Future
Forecasting, technology assessment, future studies and other
forms of foresight try to identify long term trends and thus to
guide decision-making
Foresight aims at identifying today's research and innovation
priorities on the basis of scenarios of future developments in science
and technology, society and economy
Foresight is a participative process involving different
stakeholders
Methods include academic studies, panels, and working groups
Foresight aims at identifying possible futures, imagining
desirable futures, and defining strategies
Results are generally fed into public decision-making, but they also
help participants themselves to develop or adjust their strategy
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Business Foresight
Consider whether you could use or participate in such Foresight
projects
There are university people who are very good at it
One aspect is the expectations of the next generation of users,
customers, citizens
They are going to be very much different from their parents’
generation
And the next wave of retired persons are going to be demanding and
difficult too – because that will be many of us in this room!
The new generation of reengineered IT systems that we are
building now might have a lifecycle expectancy of maybe 15-20
years, so very big changes in such directions must be prepared
for
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Technology Foresight
If we think of a 15-20 year period it takes little imagination to
foresee the possible size of technology changes over such a
period
Wireless everywhere, grid, all kinds of new devices…
Loosely-coupled, open-interface integration between systems
that need to know nothing about the internals of each other will
be the standard
At the technology level nobody can claim to have the slightest
idea whether the differences between mainframes and midrange
systems still will exist or whether they have converged
This does not necessarily mean that mainframes will die, as often
forecasted, but rather that midrange system will grow in size,
processing power, stability and close symbiosis between hardware
and operating systems, so the differences will wither away
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The Gartner Christmas Report
2005
No more company paid laptops
Telephony will be mobile or internet based
The job market for IT specialists will shrink
More Business Process outsourcing
Software will save lives in the health sector
Government regulations will be in focus
The actual report is of cause more detailed and faceted. Get
the details from Gartner yourselves
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A Gartner “Hype
Curve”
Gartner’s phases are:
Technology/Business
Trigger
Peak of Inflated
Expectations
Trough of Disillusionment
Slope of Enlightenment
Plateau of Productivity
No presentation is complete
without either a Hype Curve or
a Magic Quadrant
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A Revolution that Never Took
Place
“Before man reaches the
moon, mail will be delivered
within hours from New York
to California, to Britain, to
India or Australia by guided
missiles. We stand on the
threshold of rocket mail”
Arthur Summerfield, US
Postmaster General, 1959
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Remember “The New
Economy”?
“There isn't an Internet
company in the world that's
going to fail because of
mistakes – Internet
companies make thousands
of mistakes every week”
Candice Carpenter of
iVillage, 1998
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Trends, but No Directions?
IT in the Age of
Globalization
Globalization
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The Globalization
Era
There has been an international division of work since long
distance trade started in the Stone or Bronze Age
It changed drastically during colonial times when colonial
powers controlled who manufactured, who produced raw
materials, who were allowed to buy from whom – and who were
sold as slaves
After World War II and decolonization countries have become
politically free, but with very different levels of development,
economy and political rights
Changes in economic strength, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and
the establishment of new networks of terror have changed both
the political and the economic climate of the planet: The Cold
War Era has been replaced by the Globalization Era
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Characteristics of
Globalization
People around the Globe are more connected to each
other than ever before
Information and money flow more quickly than ever
Goods and services produced in one part of the world
are increasingly available in all parts of the world
International travel is more frequent
International communication is commonplace
Critics claim that Globalization means US Domination
(“McDonaldization”, “Coca-Colonization”)
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A Globalization
Scenario
One scenario often discussed is the
global consolidation of companies into
three of each with an undergrowth of
national subcontractors:
Three car manufacturers, three computer
companies, three airplane
manufacturers, three airlines, three food
producers, etc.
Imagine the consequences on systems
integration, network, layering of the
Internet, etc.
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Warfare is changing
Warfare has been the main driver of technology for
the last several thousand years
“The cold war” is replaced by “The war on terror”
The US Patriot Act, EU, and national Nordic anti-
terror legislation affects the IT and telecommunication
businesses by demanding large scale storage of
communication patterns and/or content
Its will keep a lot of the database, data mining and OLAP
specialists busy
It also is subject for a large debate in all democratic countries
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Trends, but No Directions?
IT in the Age of
Globalization
Changes in IT
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Ten Key Trends for IT Services in 2006
ComputerWire Market Watch predicts:
Steady growth in spending
Mega-deals to decline
Multi-sourcing
Telecoms, pharma and retail the hot sectors
Continental Europe warms to outsourcing
Telecoms/IT services crossover continues
India arrives in infrastructure management
Procurement outsourcing to explode
Finance & Accounting outsourcing to ramp up
Mergers and Acquisitions among IT service providers
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Compliance
Financial scandals has put focus on
“compliance”, i.e. acting according
to accepted standard procedures and
processes
Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II
Outsourcing, offshoring, and the
change of IT from art to industry has
changed may relations from close
partnerships to commercial relations
A contract is now a governance tool
rather than an emergency brake
Tight standards on IT processes and
project management like ITIL,
PRINC 2, CMMI, and Six Sigma
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Processification of
IT
The compliance paradigm drives IT
organizations to change their ways of
working from art and handicraft to
industrial processes
Better documentation is one important
product
Mainframe has learned to work structured
many years ago
Midrange and desktop are struggling to
change their processes
This is a sign of maturity, and without
any doubt necessary
It changes the skill sets necessary to do
the job
Which consequences for innovation and
creativity?
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Does IT Matter?
Article by Nicholas Carr in
Harvard Business Review,
May 2003
Followed by the book “Does
IT Matter? Information
Technology and the
Corrosion of Competitive
Advantage”
Observation: IT becomes a
commodity, and competitive
advantage diminishes
His conclusion: Stop
investing in IT
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IT Doesn’t Matter – Business Processes
Do
Smith and Fingar divide IT
into three stages:
IT infrastructure
Business automation
Business process
management
IT does matter in the last
area because it is a business
process enabler, say Smith
and Fingar
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Software Engineering
Procedural programming is
based on mathematical
models like λ calculus and
the work of Alan Turing
Correctness can be proved
mathematically
The US DoD spent years
validating the Ada language,
used for spaceflight and
guided missiles
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Weinberg’s Second Law
If Builders Built Buildings The
Way Programmers Write
Programs, Then The First
Woodpecker That Came Along
Would Destroy Civilization
Gerald Weinberg, 1972
Years ago I quoted to an
architect Weinberg's line. "Oh,"
she said, "but that's just how
they do build them.“
George Jansen in RISKS
Digest, 2005
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A Component Architecture Debate in
“RISKS”
“If you have small components that you know are right, and you then
combine those components to manipulate each other according to their
published interface specifications, the results should be consistently
correct. The results will be predictable, the usage will be consistent
every time. But in general, this is not how we are designing software.”
(Paul Robinson)
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A Component Architecture Debate in
“RISKS”
“If you have small components that you know are right, and you then
combine those components to manipulate each other according to their
published interface specifications, the results should be consistently
correct. The results will be predictable, the usage will be consistent
every time. But in general, this is not how we are designing software.”
(Paul Robinson)
“There is only widespread take up of component reuse where those
components are reliable and free.” (Steve Taylor)
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A Component Architecture Debate in
“RISKS”
“If you have small components that you know are right, and you then
combine those components to manipulate each other according to their
published interface specifications, the results should be consistently
correct. The results will be predictable, the usage will be consistent
every time. But in general, this is not how we are designing software.”
(Paul Robinson)
“There is only widespread take up of component reuse where those
components are reliable and free.” (Steve Taylor)
“Software patents make component reuse dead. Reuse a bunch of stuff
and pay many fees, royalties, patent searches, lawyers and contract
negotiations. So who will try reusing components with very real legal,
financial, etc. risks when the risk of consequence for a bug (even
resulting in deaths or huge financial losses,) is small?” (Steven Hauser)
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A Component Architecture Debate in
“RISKS”
“If you have small components that you know are right, and you then
combine those components to manipulate each other according to their
published interface specifications, the results should be consistently
correct. The results will be predictable, the usage will be consistent
every time. But in general, this is not how we are designing software.”
(Paul Robinson)
“There is only widespread take up of component reuse where those
components are reliable and free.” (Steve Taylor)
“Software patents make component reuse dead. Reuse a bunch of stuff
and pay many fees, royalties, patent searches, lawyers and contract
negotiations. So who will try reusing components with very real legal,
financial, etc. risks when the risk of consequence for a bug (even
resulting in deaths or huge financial losses,) is small?” (Steven Hauser)
[Open Source] “provides us with the ability to obtain components that
we can fix (or hire experts to fix) if they break.” (Tom Swiss)
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A Component Architecture Debate in
“RISKS”
“If you have small components that you know are right, and you then
combine those components to manipulate each other according to their
published interface specifications, the results should be consistently
correct. The results will be predictable, the usage will be consistent
every time. But in general, this is not how we are designing software.”
(Paul Robinson)
“There is only widespread take up of component reuse where those
components are reliable and free.” (Steve Taylor)
“Software patents make component reuse dead. Reuse a bunch of stuff
and pay many fees, royalties, patent searches, lawyers and contract
negotiations. So who will try reusing components with very real legal,
financial, etc. risks when the risk of consequence for a bug (even
resulting in deaths or huge financial losses,) is small?” (Steven Hauser)
[Open Source] “provides us with the ability to obtain components that
we can fix (or hire experts to fix) if they break.” (Tom Swiss)
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A Critique of OO from the Same Debate
“What OO has done to the development of software engineering is
devastating
Instead of continue to develop more advanced languages we got stuck
with half-assembler languages like C and followers. A compiler for a
high level language (re-)uses code templates. A compiler for a more
advanced language could reuse even larger chunks of code, without any
need for a programmer to try to find the code in a catalog
To my disappointment, I have seen very little progress during the last
two decades in the field of software development
The ever increasing speed of the processors and the cheap memory
prices has more encouraged fast hacking than a systematic development
based on sound engineering principles.” (Kurt Fredriksson)
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The Case for SOA and for
LST
The current answer to the problems discussed is Enterprise
Architectures that are built on standard components, shrink-
wrapped packages, legacy systems functionality, plus custom
built service-enabled applications where needed
Plus stronger management procedures like ITIL etc.
The case for Legacy Systems Transformation (LST) is that these
systems are thoroughly tested, tuned, debugged, and functionally
corrected by change management, based on years of user
observation in real production
If it makes sense to reuse parts of their functionality in the new
business processes
But Kurt Fredriksson would probably accuse us of hiding the
symptoms rather than curing the disease
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Open Standards and Open
Source
Open standards like SOAP
means that you can connect
separate systems to each other
in a documented way without
paying a license fee
Everybody says they support it
Open source is just another way
of pricing products and services
The question about the quality
of open source has mainly
ended by now
The discussions about open
source and open document
standards are also a battlefield
in the struggle for market
domination
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Trends, but No Directions?
IT in the Age of
Globalization
SOA, POA,
EDA, and other
TLA’s
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SOAP is not the same as
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SOAP is not the same as
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(Just wanted to make a point)
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SOAP is not the same as
SOA
SOAP (aka Web Services) is a
protocol used for system-to-
system communication
Any system can be equipped
with a SOAP interface – like an
APPC interface, a Sockets
interface, an RPC interface etc.
SOAP can be used in a SOA,
but so can other interfaces
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SOAP is not the same as
SOA
SOAP (aka Web Services) is a
protocol used for system-to-
system communication
Any system can be equipped
with a SOAP interface – like an
APPC interface, a Sockets
interface, an RPC interface etc.
SOAP can be used in a SOA,
but so can other interfaces
SOA is an enterprise
architecture model, where
functionality in separate systems
is exposed using loose coupling
and open standard interfaces,
including – but not exclusively
– SOAP
Many current SOA projects are
technical infrastructure projects
rather business projects
Which is why some people call
a full SOA with BPMS a
Process Oriented Architecture
(POA)
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Robert Morris in zJournal, 2006
There’s no shortage of vendors
willing to further confuse the
issue by offering simplistic
solutions to delivering
mainframe Web Services, and
claiming this is synonymous
with delivering SOA
This approach should come with
a warning label: “Web Service
enclosed. All assembly
required.”
It’s like delivering a load of
lumber to a prospective home-
builder
It requires:
An in-depth understanding of
how the components work
together to comprise a
recognizable business task
Automating the interaction of
the underlying functionality
and data sources necessary for
the task
The whole thing be packaged in
an easily recognizable and
accessible form for effective
use and reuse
Talking “Web Services” instead
of “business services” really
misses the point
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POA according to Howard
Smith
From “Workflow is just a π Process”, 2003:
A BPMS does not “integrate” applications and Web services as
many workflow solutions and EAI do. That approach only
creates aligned data and some workflow control over messaging
By contrast, a BPMS assists in the direct reuse of existing
investments in IT processes by consolidating them within a
process-oriented architecture (POA)
This means we can persist them as data records in a BPMS
process base, a database of process records. Like stored
information within the thread of email, the process base contains
the past, present and alternative futures (via simulation) of the
stored process
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POA according to Howard
Smith
Within a POA, the conceptual centre is the business
process itself, the focus of management attention
In the same way that the RDBMS, based on the
relational model of data management, replaced
disparate hierarchical and network-oriented databases,
we believe BPMS will replace multiple approaches to
workflow
The BPMS heralds a change in the IT stack itself,
from applications built on a data foundation, toward
process management tools built on a process
foundation
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POA according to Howard
Smith
The BPMS platform provides a
process-oriented architecture (POA)
that can be deployed over today’s
Web services platforms that are, by
contrast, service-oriented
architectures (SOA)
Web services are just fine at
exposing the process participants the
BPMS can exploit
Web services live in the era before π
calculus-based technologies
They represent the final
standardisation of 20th
century
technology, and for many businesses
that’s long overdue
By contrast, the BPMS is a 21st
century innovation and ripe for
market adoption
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Event Driven Architecture
Event-Driven Architectures
(EDA) can be seen as an
extension to SOA and BPMS
EDA refers to any applications
that react intelligently to
changes in conditions, whether
that change is the impending
failure of a hard drive or a
sudden change in stock price.
Gartner sees EDA as “THE
NEXT BIG THING”™
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IBM and Event Driven Architecture
“Planned enhancements to the CICS family of
products”, IBM Statement of Direction May 2006,
include:
“IBM intends to support Event Driven Architecture
(EDA) to initiate the event-triggered delivery of a
message for appropriate action in managing and
separately maintaining infrastructure and business
processes
It is planned for CICS to provide non-invasive
instrumentation of business logic that can be used
by both business analysts and developers. As a first
step in its longer-term EDA strategy, IBM intends
that the complementary product, CICS Business
Event Publisher for MQSeries, will be extended to
conform with the Common Event Infrastructure for
working with a wide range of business, system, and
network events”
Capability Description
Decoupled
interactions
Event publishers are not
aware of the existence of
event subscribers
Many-to-
many
communica
tions
Publish/Subscribe
messaging where one
specific event can impact
many subscribers
Event-
based
trigger
Flow of control that is
determined by the
recipient, based on an
event posted
Asynchron
ous
Supports asynchronous
operations through event
messaging
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Trends, but No Directions?
IT in the Age of
Globalization
Outsourcing
and Offshoring
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Growth of Indian
Offshoring
Has gone through three stages
Development of world-class applications development skills,
when firms like Tata became partners with Western firms for
low cost development
Indian firms offering low-end back-office services (call
centers, transcribing medical records, processing insurance
claims etc.)
More complex services are now being provided in IT and
Business Process Outsourcing
According to The Economist, 2006
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New Countries are Joining In
Some of India's offshoring giants are offshoring themselves,
fueling the next round, and U.S. firms are joining in
Tata has opened offices in Budapest, in Hangzhou, China, and in
Chile. It plans to add 1,500 to the 485 people at its Brazil arm
Infosys Technologies set up shop in Shanghai, Mauritius, Prague
and Brno
Wipro has new offices in Shanghai and Beijing and soon in
Bucharest
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New Countries are Joining In
Some of India's offshoring giants are offshoring themselves,
fueling the next round, and U.S. firms are joining in
Tata has opened offices in Budapest, in Hangzhou, China, and in
Chile. It plans to add 1,500 to the 485 people at its Brazil arm
Infosys Technologies set up shop in Shanghai, Mauritius, Prague
and Brno
Wipro has new offices in Shanghai and Beijing and soon in
Bucharest
U.S. firms are expanding beyond India, too
Call-center giant Convergys recently opened offices in Dubai and
Budapest
IBM Global Services is adding staff in China, Hungary, the Czech
Republic and Brazil
Accenture is adding staff in the Philippines, China, Slovakia and the
Czech Republic
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China’s Five Surprises
Edward Tse recently wrote in “Resilience Report” that by 2030,
if not sooner, China could be the world’s largest economy. He
thinks China will succeed, where Japan didn’t, because of five
“surprises”:
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China’s Five Surprises
Edward Tse recently wrote in “Resilience Report” that by 2030,
if not sooner, China could be the world’s largest economy. He
thinks China will succeed, where Japan didn’t, because of five
“surprises”:
“Why not me?”
The intensity of Chinese entrepreneurialism is propelling many
companies, even now, beyond a role as producers of low-cost
commodities
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China’s Five Surprises
Edward Tse recently wrote in “Resilience Report” that by 2030,
if not sooner, China could be the world’s largest economy. He
thinks China will succeed, where Japan didn’t, because of five
“surprises”:
“Why not me?”
The intensity of Chinese entrepreneurialism is propelling many
companies, even now, beyond a role as producers of low-cost
commodities
Fearless experimenters
China’s emphasis on rapid-fire research and development makes it a
seedbed for original products and services in the future
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China’s Five Surprises
China’s “brain gain”
The ability to attract and retain executives from around the world
has provided a higher level of competence for China’s enterprises
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China’s Five Surprises
China’s “brain gain”
The ability to attract and retain executives from around the world
has provided a higher level of competence for China’s enterprises
Out from Guanxi
Outsiders still view China as a largely patronage-based economy, in
which connections and ethnic background determine success, but
increasingly (at least in some sectors), high-quality management
and transparent governance structures count more
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China’s Five Surprises
China’s “brain gain”
The ability to attract and retain executives from around the world
has provided a higher level of competence for China’s enterprises
Out from Guanxi
Outsiders still view China as a largely patronage-based economy, in
which connections and ethnic background determine success, but
increasingly (at least in some sectors), high-quality management
and transparent governance structures count more
China’s overseas ambition
The country is taking on a role as a catalyst of sustained economic
growth in the emerging markets of the developing world
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Backsourcin
g
Backsourcing is taking back in-house services that
were previously outsourced
JP Morgan Chase did it with IBM in the wake of the
Bank One merger
Banco Santander has said that it is backsourcing some
of Abbey’s IT operations
Sainsbury’s announced that it is bringing back in-
house its multi-billion outsourcing with Accenture
Also examples from Denmark
Could this happen for offshoring as well?
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The Danish Globalization
Council
Established by the Danish
government April 2005
It has been advising the
government on an ambitious,
comprehensive strategy to
prepare Denmark better for
globalization
It comprised representatives
from Trade Unions,
employer organisations,
education, and research
circles
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“Progress, Renewal, and
Security”
A report from the government after
listening to the Globalization
Council, published April 2006,
concluded among other points:
Better education
More competition among
universities
Stronger cooperation between
companies and universities
Stronger competition
Import of more highly educated
workers
Lower taxes
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“Progress, Renewal, and
Security”
A report from the government after
listening to the Globalization
Council, published April 2006,
concluded among other points:
Better education
More competition among
universities
Stronger cooperation between
companies and universities
Stronger competition
Import of more highly educated
workers
Lower taxes
The report has been criticised for not
listening enough to the council, for
just repeating existing government
policy, and for having too short a
perspective
It wisely focuses on furthering the
Scandinavian “flexicurity” model
When I used the same argument as
the report about education in a
recent discussion, I was challenged:
“What can your education do to
compete with 100.000’es of Ph.D.’s
in India and China?”
Perhaps the Innovation paradigm
would be a better answer?
It is in fact a keyword in the report
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The Offshoring Equation for
Companies
Offshore 20 jobs and keep 30 at home – or lose all 50
jobs to your competitor?
Offshoring is a fact of life
Companies have to analyze what to keep locally and
what to offshore
Companies have to adapt new processes and standards
to control and manage this new level of complexity
What are the social consequences for society and for
employees?
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Intergovernmental
Interoperability
The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology, and Education is
promoting Intergovernmental Interoperability based on Service
Oriented Architectures and a very long list of recommended
standards
Many very large government systems are being reengineered
into SOA architectures
Some systems, however, are too simple in their structure for a
SOA to make sense
Alternatively, they are exposing relevant parts of their functionality as
Web Services for others to use
“Nordic Relocation” is an Inter-Nordic example of such projects
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Trends, but No Directions?
IT in the Age of
Globalization
Stratification of IT
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Symptoms of
Stratification
Stratification, i.e.: separation in layers
Peter F. Gammelby observed in a Danish newspaper, 2006:
Globalization and the lack of Danish IT experts are creating a deep
salary gap in the Danish IT business
A growing number of companies are having their IT work done in
low pay countries, which primarily affects the least educated IT
staff here, both on job opportunities and salary
Highly educated IT specialists in contrary are in shortage here, and
they are currently earning prize salaries. The lack of them are
however now so strong – and their salaries so high – that companies
have started to find the highly specialized workforce in low pay
countries
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A new Stratification is Emerging
Companies often look at IT as a commodity or utility
They want to have unlimited IT resources and pay as they go
This pushes IT down the Value Chain
IT departments look at IT as a strategic resource
They want to move IT up the Value Chain and into the board room
The net product is a new division of work and a stratification of IT functions,
departments, and staff inside companies, between companies, and
internationally
This question poses itself:
Will you be an industrial worker on the code assembly line or in operations?
Or will you be part of business- and customer-facing engineering, architecture,
and consulting?
This may affect your long-term job satisfaction and job security
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Editor's Notes
Presentation on “Hey, Who Stole my Computer” requested last year at Riga one late evening over a glass of good beer
Going through many slides
Many of them would each take a long evening and a bottle of good red wine to discuss
I’ll just roll quickly through them to try to provoke some thoughts about what is driving the development of our industry and our own situation
Scott Adams is the guy who draws Dilbert
Already 19th century philosophers discussed this view on development, but the wording is new
I will rush through a lot of detail. The complete picture is up to yourselves to work out
Gurdjieff
Also the higher oil prices and effects on global warming has affected the economy of transporting raw material and products across the world
Innovation is not only about being creative
It is about turning knowledge and creative work in products, processes and services
This clearly demonstrates that innovation is a management discipline
Teresa Amabile heads the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School and devotes her entire research program to the study of creativity
Over a period of eight years she collected nearly 12,000 daily journal entries from 238 people working on creative projects.
She didn't tell the study participants that she was focusing on creativity.
She simply asked them, in a daily email, about their work and their work environment as they experienced it that day.
She then coded the emails for creativity by looking for moments when people struggled with a problem or came up with a new idea.
Howard Aiken was a professor at Harvard and took initiative to build the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator computer together with IBM in 1943
For years we have been discussing decoupling or separation of data, applications and presentation layers.
The newer architectures are based on this decoupling, and it often turns out in practice that decoupling has been technical and physical and not separated the layers logically. This becomes a major problem in many reengineering projects
The Hamburg horse droppings prediction
Flint and amber
This is also very important if the large scale integration projects are going to succeed.
They typically involve many platforms, many products, and many service providers
This conclusion has of course been strongly attacked by the IT industry
HOWARD SMITH is Chief Technology Officer (Europe) of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and co-chair of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org).
PETER FINGAR is an Executive Partner with the digital strategy firm, the Greystone Group.
Last year a big discussion on Software Engineering and quality took place in the Risks Digest Newsgroup.
Some very strong opinions were voiced, which I am quoting here
Last year a big discussion on Software Engineering and quality took place in the Risks Digest Newsgroup.
Some very strong opinions were voiced, which I am quoting here
Last year a big discussion on Software Engineering and quality took place in the Risks Digest Newsgroup.
Some very strong opinions were voiced, which I am quoting here
Last year a big discussion on Software Engineering and quality took place in the Risks Digest Newsgroup.
Some very strong opinions were voiced, which I am quoting here
Last year a big discussion on Software Engineering and quality took place in the Risks Digest Newsgroup.
Some very strong opinions were voiced, which I am quoting here
The main point of Robert Morris’ article is that SOA should not be an IT project. It should be a business project
The drawing on this slide and table on the next one are from an IBM article on EDA
Last year a participant asked us to have a session on outsourcing with a title like “Hey, who stole my computer?”
So let’s have a look at that
And when wages rise in India, they will feel threatened by offshoring too
And when wages rise in India, they will feel threatened by offshoring too
African Infrastructure investments while Europe focuses on emergency aid
African Infrastructure investments while Europe focuses on emergency aid
African Infrastructure investments while Europe focuses on emergency aid