Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Aug 10, 2012
Article of the Week
“Rogue IT” is about to wreak havoc at work (Fortune Tech)
Big Idea: In the past, enterprise software and hardware decisions were often the exclusive domain of a company’s chief information officer…
“Rogue IT” is about to wreak havoc at work
By Ryan Holmes
Fortune Tech
August 9, 2012
Big Idea: In the past, enterprise software and hardware decisions were often the exclusive domain of a company’s chief information officer or CIO, the senior executive in charge of information technology and computer systems. Rogue IT turns that model on its head, effectively crowdsourcing…
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Aug 3, 2012
Article of the Week
Two-Speed IT: A Linchpin For Success in a Digitized World (bcg.perspectives)
Big Idea: Capturing the advantages offered by the digital age demands changes throughout the company. The IT organization, in particular, needs…
Two-Speed IT: A Linchpin For Success in a Digitized World
By Antoine Gourévitch, Benjamin Rehberg, and Jean-François Bobier
bcg.perspectives
August 1, 2012
Big Idea: Capturing the advantages offered by the digital age demands changes throughout the company. The IT organization, in particular, needs to reinvent itself. Developing a second speed of delivery should be a key aim of that reinvention.
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Jul 27, 2012
Article of the Week
AppFog lets you pick your cloud, (almost) any cloud (Gigaom)
Big Idea: Are you interested in moving to the cloud but concerned about vendor and platform lock in? Consider AppFog. They have built a simple model based on standard Cloud Foundry to interface with…
AppFog lets you pick your cloud, (almost) any cloud
By Barb Darrow
GigaOm
July 25, 2012
Big Idea: Are you interested in moving to the cloud but concerned about vendor and platform lock in? Consider AppFog. They have built a simple model based on standard Cloud Foundry to interface with the major cloud vendors like Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace and HP.
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending July 20, 2012
Article of the Week
The Colorado shooting and the crowdsourced future of news (Gigaom)
Big Idea: Twitter is enabling crowdsourced citizen reporting platforms like Reddit and Storify that provide instantaneous news as it breaks. The real-time reporting of the Colorado shootings further solidifies Twitter as a…
The Colorado shooting and the crowdsourced future of news
By Matthew Ingram
Gigaom
July 20, 2012
Big Idea: Twitter is enabling crowdsourced citizen reporting platforms like Reddit and Storify that provide instantaneous news as it breaks. The real-time reporting of the Colorado shootings further solidifies Twitter as a media company. There are of course risks as imposters post fake…
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Jul 13, 2012
Article of the Week
Twitter is building a media business using other people’s content (GigaOm)
Big Idea: What do you get when you turn data into information and ultimately knowledge? You become a media company, or at least that is the direction Twitter is heading. Transitioning from an…
Twitter is building a media business using other people’s content
By Matthew Ingram
GigaOm
July 11, 2012
Big Idea: What do you get when you turn data into information and ultimately knowledge? You become a media company, or at least that is the direction Twitter is heading. Transitioning from an infrastructure and communication platform will help Twitter monetize those 140 character tweets!
