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Back from the Abyss
Published on 2012-03-17 12:28:00
A year on the sea sailing around, visiting communities from the sea side (not the road side), meeting a broad spectrum of humanity; ah, the joy of sailing. In reality I left a recreational boater and returned a salt encrusted sailor. It is hard work. Each sunny week is drowned by one stormy night spent engaging God in forgiveness of sins. Nothing like a trot up on deck at 3:00AM in gale-force winds to secure rigging that if loosed could send the vessel to the bottom. Well time marches on but ha [..] > read more
Techno-societal Change
Published on 2011-12-26 16:29:00
The promise of technology was to do more with less. In business and government, that would imply providing more product or services with less overhead-operating cost. What we see is often the opposite. Instead of reducing human resources and material cost to produce the product-service, we have witnessed the shift of resources from direct production into maintenance and operation of the technology. I suggest from experience that it is not just a shift but an increase in all associated resources [..] > read more
Crass SaaS
Published on 2011-05-10 10:34:00
I noticed Morgan Hunter's post over at Lotus MBAtitled Dear CFO: We're losing money on our SaaS business. I coined the term crass-SaaS (see The Cloud) to try an give a heads-up that just taking a client-server application and updating them, reco > read more
The Transitional IT Manager
Published on 2011-04-20 07:12:00
IT shops should always be in transition. From the consolidation of servers and networks onto increased power, to application programming where new methods and target platforms emerge. Three aspects are present; the employees, the managers and the > read more
Vindicated
Published on 2011-04-18 14:11:00
Monday, April 18, 2011 FROM THE EDITOR: Why Government Will Lead Us There Chris Murphy Remember how small businesses were the pioneers of software as a service? Government just might be the leader when it comes to cloud computing infrastructure.& > read more
Why the Business Model Must Change
Published on 2011-04-12 15:00:00
One theme that runs through these blogs is that government must change how it does business. I often express my opinion on how government IT can change, and certainly provide some cost benefits for the CIO/CFO, but have not addressed the core reason > read more
Symantic Web
Published on 2011-03-21 12:43:00
Grid, Cloud, SaaS, Fifth Wave, Information are labels; just catchy terms used in the industry in an attempt to quantify certain technology trends. They are initially restricted inside the industry where officiators argue the finer details of what is > read more
Agility
Published on 2011-03-13 09:56:00
HP conducted a survey of of over 600 CIOs to determine what obstacles they faced. As you've heard me say many times throughout this blog, the problem is people: Specifically employee skill sets. Examine the chart below and you'll see that the l > read more
Riding the Wave
Published on 2011-03-03 17:46:00
Governments and transnationals are quickly loosing their pocket book to control the digital market. Obviously their pocket book is a lot bigger than mine but I am one of the four billion consumers who bought new technological devices last year. I tho > read more
Capacity
Published on 2011-02-28 07:43:00
IT Capacity is singularly the most important component in successful IT operations. Capacity is the ability of the the IT workforce to adsorb and implement technology. It is training but more correctly applied training. What we see is that CIO/CTOs > read more
Refresh
Published on 2011-02-09 21:10:00
In our daily existence we often loose sight of our goals. They get pushed aside by this crisis or that. I am as guilty as any. So let me take a little time to refresh our memories of the significance of events unfolding. Government must change the w > read more
2 1/2 Years
Published on 2011-02-06 16:57:00
In a previous blog I posted a five year plan I had done. Six years later, I notice it had a fatal flaw. With technology advancing at the rate it does today, no one should have a plan longer than two and one half years. Trends can become pronounced a > read more
Real TCO/LCC
Published on 2011-01-24 19:07:00
I thought we'd use a real example. This was an actual workflow system used for converting and processing paper documents into images (Document and Records Management). The new client-server system was selected without TCO to replace a legacy client-s > read more
Nuts and Bolts
Published on 2011-01-09 19:40:00
There are two primary pricing models under SaaS; commitment pricing and per use pricing. I will have three hundred users working with the application so bill me $50 per user per year, or I will pay by the amount of time I use the systems - say 10 > read more
Decay
Published on 2011-01-09 11:28:00
I have become convinced that the former model of creating organizations that end up dominating their industry is the current model of extinction. While historically trans-nationals and NGOs rule their markets through sheer size and wealth, it is > read more
They're Waking Up
Published on 2010-12-12 09:58:00
I got a call from a government IT Director last week so I thought I summarize a few items we discussed. I believe it illustrates how economic times support my adage that SaaS is the economic means to survival. There are 3,129 counties in the cou > read more
A Failure to Understand
Published on 2010-12-05 20:01:00
Businesses have a core function - their business. To accomplish their business, they may incorporate many tools; a cell phone, computers, contact software, and infuse procedures such as time accounting to further their business. None of the fore > read more