by Jack Santos | February 14, 2012 | Submit a Comment
This in from the local news rag: http://www.newburyportnews.com/local/x2053729702/Google-exec-brings-Port-up-to-speed In particular, this part of the article caught my eye: After replying to a question about how much Google’s revenue comes from ad receipts (98 percent), he said, “Online ad commerce is a major force. Let’s see a show of hands on how many of you use [...]
Category: Applications Future economy Tags: consumerization, economy, mobility, vendor
by Jack Santos | February 1, 2012 | Comments Off
I keep getting interesting stories from folks about the “Find My iPhone” app, so I thought I would add mine, and maybe extrapolate what I think the moral of the story is for Enterprise “Bring Your Own Device” strategies, and Mobile Device Management (MDM). Recently my wife and I were dining at a restaurant. We [...]
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Category: IT Governance Managment Mobility Wireless management Tags: 3g, Cloud, consumerization, culture, management, mobility, UI, Wireless
by Jack Santos | January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments
I love how the fragmentation of communication is actually moving away from appropriate use, and moving to duplicative use, amplifying the total volume of messages on the planet — while real content or (more accurately) unique thought is growing in proportion to population growth – no small number by itself. This has probably been a [...]
Category: Cloud Future Predictions Tags: Cloud, consumerization, culture, IT relevance, mobility, network, Predictions, Wireless
by Jack Santos | September 23, 2011 | Comments Off
Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop It Timothy Leary said it in a slightly different way… It’s that time of year when parents and school systems start publicizing “Turn off TV” month. Our local paper ran a piece on it – and in some cases it has been extended to ALL electronics (TV, radio, video games, [...]
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Category: Fun Mobility Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, culture, IT relevance, Predictions, security, Strategy
by Jack Santos | August 31, 2011 | Comments Off
The title refers to a news piece about X5 music group in today’s Wall Street Journal. Which makes me think of this fictitious dialogue excerpt: But, Herr Gutenberg, if you are able to use your new technology just think of all the income we lose from pilgrims traveling to monasteries. Lost lodging revenue, religious trinket [...]
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Category: Externalization Fun Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, culture, Externalization, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
The Professional Effectiveness group in Gartner (which I am a member of) recently hosted a webinar on “The Future of IT Work”. We had three questions for the audience. Let’s analyze those: This was really important to us; you see, when Gartner bought Burton and renamed that product line IT1, we kept the team – [...]
Category: CIO issues Cloud Externalization Future Managment Mobility Strategic Planning management Tags: career, CIO, consumerization, culture, Externalization, gearheads, IT relevance, management, mobility, Outsourcing, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | August 5, 2011 | Comments Off
Just for the record, here’s my picture: I have been told more than a few times that I am good looking, and people always stop me for autographs. Sorry, I am married. (BTW, only one of these statements is true) So now that I am past introductions, I am hoping this blog post throws off [...]
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Category: Cloud Future IAM Mobility Wireless security Tags: consumerization, culture, management, mobility, privacy, security, Wireless
by Jack Santos | July 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
This past week, I have had to deal with one of those inevitable consequences of living – dealing with the death of someone close. But even then, it was hard to get away from the effects of IT. Digitization seems to crop up in the most unusual places. Like, for instance, at a cemetery. Sure, [...]
Category: Applications Mobility Wireless Tags: 3g, consumerization, culture, mobility, Wireless
by Jack Santos | June 6, 2011 | Comments Off
First there was “The Bunch”: Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control data, and Honeywell – the gang of five (2 more made 7 dwarfs) that tried, and failed, to take down IBM in the 60s and 70s. Through the ages of Amdahl, Cray, DEC, Compaq, Digital Research..and now… We arrive at “The Gang of Four”, or the [...]
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Category: Fun Tags: consumerization, words
by Jack Santos | June 1, 2011 | Comments Off
“There is absolutely no reason for any person to download their Facebook into the car.” … Ray LaHood, U.S. Department of Transportation “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” … Ken Olsen, Digital Equipment Corporation Amazingly similar quotes. The first is in today’s Wall Street Journal, the context [...]
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Category: CIO issues Mobility Predictions governance Tags: 3g, consumerization, mobility, Predictions, Wireless
