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by Scott Wilson on January 11, 2010
Roger Sessions has caused quite a splash in the IT world with his analysis of the global costs of IT project failure and the predictions of coming crisis that follow. The root of the debate surroundin...
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by Scott Wilson on December 16, 2009
Something I push very hard in my consulting engagements is for clients to understand how underlying economic interests shape their uses of and success with technology. I'm not an economist, but gr...
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by Scott Wilson on December 10, 2009
Forrester hosted a webinar last week called "Harnessing Key IT Trends - Three Tech Movements CIOs Should Know." I didn't attend (aside: what do you call "going to" a webinar, anyway?); my feeling is ...
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by Scott Wilson on November 21, 2009
There is some pretty crazy, almost hysterical, stuff coming out in the wake of Google's Chrome OS source code release/preview. I got a good laugh (along with most readers, if the comments are any ind...
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by Scott Wilson on October 7, 2009
The success of Lean manufacturing techniques in the industrial world has increasingly led to their application in other areas of the business, and the IT department looks like it may be the next objec...
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by Scott Wilson on September 9, 2009
As is often the case, Dion Hinchcliffe's latest post contains thoughts and concepts way above my pay grade, but "How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business" should be required r...
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by Scott Wilson on July 22, 2009
If you have been anywhere near the Internet over the past couple of days you have heard about Amazon's disastrous decision to remove legitimately purchased (although illegitimately provided; more ...
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by Scott Wilson on June 1, 2009
Google's announcement last week of their new (and I believe revolutionary) Wave communications platform has taken a while to sink in with some commentators, but as it has, it has unleashed a torre...
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by Scott Wilson on May 14, 2009
So, speaking of revolutions, it strikes me that this one isn't being evangelized very well. Nick Carr has turtled, turning off blog comments and going largely off the radar after the brief flurry ...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on May 12, 2009
Maybe I'm just overly optimistic (that's a rare accusation for me) but I'm having trouble thinking that the combination of technology advancements made these past few years and the current...
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by Scott Wilson on May 5, 2009
In the same vein as my "Did Vista jump the shark?" post last month, Jason Hiner at ZDnet posted yesterday on two trends that are conspiring against Microsoft.
Hiner is talking about web-ba...
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by Scott Wilson on April 26, 2009
While those of us in the IT industry have been oohing and aahing (or, alternately, scoffing and spitting) at the pedestrian achievements of giants such as Amazon and Google in bringing us services and...
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by Scott Wilson on April 16, 2009
It's not a new question, I know. And on the face of it, it may not seem terribly relevant to the average CIO, working for businesses which are generally wiling to pay for the services they consume...
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by Scott Wilson on April 13, 2009
ZDnet's Dion Hinchcliffe has a good (longish) post up considering the difficulties of determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0. This is a good counter-point balancing my post least week title Enterpr...
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by Scott Wilson on March 30, 2009
It's a bit of an open question as to how much corporate culture actually matters to the success or failure of the products produced by the company. Certainly it's always a factor; the question...
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by Scott Wilson on March 17, 2009
Derrick Harris, posting on GigaOm yesterday, postulates that the introduction of cloud computing to the IT industry will put a lot of information workers out on the streets in the same way that the au...
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by Scott Wilson on March 6, 2009
I asked on last week if rapid web-application development tools were good or evil and received a couple of interesting responses.
Ed Loessi, CEO of PaaS provider Faulkner Technologies, represents o...
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by Scott Wilson on February 27, 2009
I'm having a strange chocolate and peanut-butter moment with two conversations springing from recent posts. The second, with Jonathan Sapir regarding the recent acquisition of PaaS firm coghead by...
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by Scott Wilson on February 19, 2009
I'm found of saying that technology is cyclical, and at a certain level I think most people would certainly agree with me. You look at mainframe timesharing, you look at desktop PCs, you look at t...
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by Scott Wilson on October 30, 2008
With the recent introductions of Microsoft's expanded virtualization platforms, the Azure cloud services, and first look at Windows 7, I am beginning to believe that quite possibly Ray Ozzie has f...
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by Scott Wilson on October 4, 2008
I posted a couple weeks ago about an effort at Hewlett-Packard to develop a lightweight, battery-conscious operating system to enable users to access some of their most commonly used applications with...
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by Scott Wilson on September 13, 2008
I don't want to make too much out of the information I am about to relay, but I do want to point it out as an example of the sort of detrimental effect that the badly botched release and subsequen...
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by Scott Wilson on August 7, 2008
I made fun of Managed Objects new social-networking influenced CMDB interface product myCMDB when it was announced last month, critiquing both the kindergarten playground name of the software and the ...
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by Scott Wilson on June 25, 2008
I was going to avoid posting anything about this week's departure of Bill Gates from his full-time role at Microsoft; everyone else is making a big deal over it, and I suppose if sentiment is a fa...
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by Scott Wilson on June 9, 2008
I don't want to sound like I am channeling Nick Carr again or anything, but my recent conversion to mash-up skeptic has got me thinking about the role of experts in a world looking for wisdom from...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on April 19, 2008
I recently wrote a post on my other blog reacting to a story I had read about a New York consulting firm using Google Apps' Gmail as an emergency replacement mail server for a client whose single ...
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by Scott Wilson on April 18, 2008
This is probably only of interest to the frequent flyers among you, but I thought I'd post it because I've been intrigued by the site Farecast.com since its inception a year or two ago.
Farec...
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by Scott Wilson on March 29, 2008
I read Larry Dignan's summary of Nash/KPMG IT leadership survey yesterday which shows a leadership core in the IT industry that has, as Dignan puts it, "...one eye on the exit." Between ...
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by Scott Wilson on March 17, 2008
I've mentioned a few times in this blog that I believe Microsoft and Google are not truly in competition with one another, but instead that they represent two entirely different philosophies of co...
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by Scott Wilson on March 4, 2008
Since you want unbiased commentary, I thought it would be best if I put up a link to this eWeek article quoting Bill Gates talking about Google at this week's Sharepoint conference in Seattle. He ...
