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 | January 16, 2012 | Comments Off
This post isn’t about Big Data (a currently trendy term), but it is about data and breaches – and its implications. We are fortunate that current health care laws require that the federal government be notified of breaches of personal health care information (PHI) – and that data is downloadable at a publicly accessible website. [...]
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Category: Healthcare Information Management Predictions Uncategorized security Tags: Healthcare, Predictions, security
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 | 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
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 | January 25, 2011 | 1 Comment
I was recently asked about an update to a popular blog post I did over a year ago on my antics around my home theater setup. Six months ago, Comcast was proposing a defense to its NBC purchase that said something like “Don’t worry about internet TV – that won’t compete with our content anytime [...]
Category: Fun Future Predictions Tags: culture, Predictions, UI
by Jack Santos | December 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Our Data Management guys in the Gartner IT1 offering do a lot of research on data – in all its forms. They are looking at things like “Big Data” and “Data Clouds” and “MODS” (the Methodology for Overcoming Data Silos). My cohort, Mike Rollings, passed along this link: http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/. It really is very interesting, and [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Fun Information Management Tags: Cloud, consumerization, data management, information, Predictions, Strategy, UI
by Jack Santos | December 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
OK. I’ve succumbed. A week ago I said to myself “avoid, at all costs, commenting about the Wikileaks story – especially on the blog”. That was before 249 internal emails on wikileaks (and counting). There is just so much in this event that our research has foretold, or that has proven our advice to clients [...]
Category: Externalization Future Information Management Managment Predictions Strategic Planning governance management Tags: Cloud, consumerization, culture, information, management, Predictions, security, Strategy
