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What will the Organisation of the Future Look Like?

June 20, 2013

Business

Business, Democratization, Future, Generation Y, Organization, Salesforce.com, Technology, World

Cross posted from the Australian Salesforce blog (hence the UK English spelling of Organization!) – disclosure: Salesforce is a consulting client Twenty or so years ago I undertook a course looking at organisational management. As part of that course…

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The Future of Organizations, The Future of Technology

February 13, 2013

Business

BigData, Business, Frankfurt, Future, Information technology, London, Machine learning, Technology

While attending HP’s Discover event (disclosure – HP covered some of my expenses for attending the event) in Frankfurt in December I was invited to take part in an interview alongside fellow Antipodean Paul Muller. The interview started off…

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Required Reading – The Promise of the Internet of Things

January 8, 2013

Business

Business, Christian Reilly, Future, General Electric, Internet of Things, Sustainability, Technology, Wi-Fi

My friends and respected technologists Christian Reilly and Justin Burleigh are often to be found deep in discussion while cradling a pint of Stella. Often these discussions point to what they sees as the big mid-term opportunity for the…

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2013 Cloud Prediction (Yes, I Only Have One)

December 31, 2012

Business

australia, Big data, Business, cloud computing, Forbes, Future, Hybrid cloud, Prediction

For over a month now I’ve been seeing cloud predictions, big data predictions, storage predictions and many others. Truth be told the only sort of prediction I’m interested as I spend a month in Australia on a road trip…

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BYOD Is All About Enabling The Organization Of The Future

November 30, 2012

Business

BYOA, BYOB, Employment, Future, Hardware, iPad, Organization, security

A while ago over on GigaOm, Matt McLarty of Layer 7 Technologies wrote an awesome post about the rise of Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. For those who haven’t spent much time thinking about the term, BYOD describes the new…

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If IaaS is Going to be Heterogeneous, PaaS Will be Even More So

September 25, 2012

Business

appsecute, Business, cloudcomputing, Future, Infrastructure, management, Organization, PaaS, platform services, Solution

The other day I came across this awesome post from Peter Sonsini from NEA. I’m actually loathe to critique it – Peter has gone to lengths to present a coherent thought leadership piece on the future of PaaS and…

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The next 5000 days of the Web

August 14, 2008

Design, IT, Society, Web x.0

Future, kevin kelly, ted, the one, the singularity

Check out the presentation by Kevin Kelly last year to TED where he talks about his vision for the next 5000 days of the web culminating in what he terms "The One" an all encompassing world machine. His predictions;…

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Microsoft’s picture of a unified future…

March 11, 2008

Business

Future, Microsoft, SaaS, unified Communications, unreasonablemen.net

{this is a mirror post of unreasonablemen.net} And no it has nothing to do with Vista…. BUT, it does have everything to do with Microsoft Mesh and MS’s S+S strategy. Gianpaolo from the development team outlines a simple S+S…

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