Entries Tagged as 'economy'
by Jack Santos | October 15, 2012 | 1 Comment
BYOD and the era of tablets has started to make me wonder. So did today’s observation in the WSJ CIO journal. Desktop PC’s and laptops have been the RAM-tough workhorse for the enterprise since the 80s. Tablet buying is surging, and employee use across the board is increasing. If studies show that employees spend most of [...]
Category: economy Future IT Governance management Managment Mobility Predictions Strategic Planning Windows 8 Wireless Tags: consumerization, economy, IT relevance, management, microsoft, mobility, Strategy
by Jack Santos | April 12, 2012 | 1 Comment
Most consumers have wondered why e-book pricing was so close to bound copy pricing. I know I have. Eliminate the warehouses, trees, delivery trucks, stores, shelf space, clerks – and you are left with author payments, product development, marketing, and electronic delivery. The cost structure is probably half of a real-world product (I don’t have [...]
Category: Applications economy Externalization Future Predictions Social Media Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, culture, economy, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | February 14, 2012 | Comments Off
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 economy Future Tags: consumerization, economy, mobility, vendor
by Jack Santos | March 3, 2011 | Comments Off
Took a long blog hiatus – mainly because I was way too busy, and fell off the wagon of doing regular blog updates. Still too busy (I write this while traveling in Sao Paulo, Brazil)….but find the need to make blog observations (and get feedback)… One of the things we are finding in our IT1 [...]
Category: CIO issues Cloud Outsourcing Uncategorized Tags: Brazil, CIO, Cloud, economy, Externalization
by Jack Santos | November 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Monday’s Wall Street Street Journal was rife with news of the effects of QE2 (Quantitative Easing 2 – the new Fed money program), the outcry by growing economies, and a dissenting op-ed piece by one of the Fed Board of Governors. That dissenting governor, Kevin Warsh, makes the case that he is concerned about Fed [...]
Category: Cloud economy Externalization Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, economy, IT relevance
by Jack Santos | October 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Jack: Just read Dan Ariely’s second book (The Upside of Irrationality). He really hammers the corporate pay bonus issue. Based on research with mice, and with homeless people in India (the only connection is that in both cases he could pay meaningful extravagant bonuses that fit his research budget) he found that after a modest [...]
Category: career governance management Tags: economy, management
