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 management Managment Mobility Strategic Planning 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 security Wireless 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 governance Mobility Predictions Tags: 3g, consumerization, mobility, Predictions, Wireless
by Jack Santos | May 19, 2011 | Comments Off
Hanging around Wednesday at the MIT CIO conference. Great opportunity to reconnect – and even get caught up on the latest campus news. I hadn’t heard that Frank Moss left Media Lab. Frank and I worked together at Bowstreet (he was a major investor and Chairman); Frank also was an IBM Research guy from way [...]
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Category: Fun Mobility Predictions Wireless Tags: 3g, CIO, consumerization, mobility, Predictions, Wireless
by Jack Santos | May 17, 2011 | Comments Off
175 Years ago (in 1836), Texas beat the Mexican army to become an independent state….and eventually a US state. Today, the Alamo (the battle loss that led to the war win) is a car rental agency, and a tourist attraction. The “I don’t knows” (abbreviated phonetically in the post title) are the segment of the [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Fun Mobility Wireless Tags: consumerization, culture, mobility, Wireless
by Jack Santos | May 11, 2011 | Comments Off
I attended a Babson College’s Center for Information Management Studies event yesterday that has been long a staple on my diet of how to stay current. Since coming to Gartner, my role has changed from currency sink to currency source. Last year, Chris Howard and I tagged team a “Cloud Tutorial” event which was very [...]
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Category: CIO issues IT Governance management Managment Mobility security Wireless Tags: consumerization, culture, management, mobility, privacy, security, Strategy
by Jack Santos | May 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Today marks the date in 2000 that “Selective Availability” (SA) for GPS was turned off. Arguably, that move by the US government set the stage for the current explosion in location aware apps. Sure, the argument can be made that efforts (then and now) to fine tune location by cell tower triangulation and other efforts [...]
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Category: Applications Fun security Wireless Tags: consumerization, security, Wireless
