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I’m on vacation, and I’ve been playing World of Goo (possibly the single-best construction puzzle game since 1991’s Lemmings by Psygnosis). I was reading the company’s blog (2D Boy), when I came across an entry about BlueHost’s no-notice termination of 2D Boy’s hosting.
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Recently I sat down with some senior IT leaders at one of our clients in Melbourne Australia when the topic of discussion, fortuitously, turned to the growing importance of design in IT. It turned out to that they were being called into a meeting that afternoon with their CFO to discuss how the IT department [...]

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The last time I saw fear written so clearly in the eyes of business managers was 1991. The computer company where I worked had made the decision two years earlier to cut research and instead pushed the development efforts that had reached maturity into production.
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I am preparing a presentation for the Gartner Spring Symposium in Las Vegas about Real Examples of Innovation in Government and I would like to gather input from readers of this blog.
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Threats and technology really doesn’t work on a calendar year, unless it is a threat specific to calendaring applications.  The analogy train basically stops at the station with the sign that says something like end of year lists are silly.  So here is a list of my predictions…
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BPM portends to make process work easy and some activities/technologies are fairly simple to work with in process improvement. Process modeling is a great example of this principle.
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For those who follow the newspaper industry, the announcement that the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News (it’s a JOA town) is scaling back on home delivery comes as no surprise.
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Let me put the disclaimers in up front.  The following is my personal opinion.  It is not an official Gartner position.  In addition, I am not an accountant.  This is also a bit of a rant (so my apologies in advance).
Taleo announced on November 10, 2008 that its Deloitte & Touche LLP, the company’s independent [...]

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The Benz museum in Ladenburg is a regular haunt of mine. In walking distance of my house I can see one the of the first cars ever made.
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Last Wednesday I did have an intriguing conversation with officials in a large non-government organization that operates across the world. This organization is in the process of defining its own green IT policy, and - amongst other things - is looking at how to make its IT procurement greener.
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