Nick Gall

Something funny to be thankful for on Thanksgiving.

via Marta Strickland

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While it’s great to talk about the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" and the Plateau of Productivity" what everyone wants to know is "When will this become extinct?" Unfortunately, Gartner’s Hype Cycle does not predict extinctions.
But not to worry, now there’s the Extinction Timeline:
Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050
I think we [...]

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As my friend and colleague Anthony Bradley just pointed out in his blog, our WOA note has finally been published (subscription required) and it’s something that I am very proud of. Not just because my co-authors Anthony, Dan Sholler and I produced a well-crafted piece of research (if I do say so myself), but more [...]

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There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Service-Orientated Architecture Yahoo Group. Below is an excerpt of one of my contributions to give you a flavor of the debate. Please join in (preferably on my side <grin>)!
I’m calling [Bull****] on Business-SOA, which I interpret as business-only SOA, ie believing that technology is basically irrelevant [...]

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As usual, Nick Carr loves the “poke in the eye” headline (”IT Doesn’t Matter Anymore”, “The Big Switch”) paired with rather prosaic analysis. He’s at it again with Who Killed the Blogosphere. His catalyst is the recent article in the Economist on the mainstreaming of the blogosphere, Oh Grow Up. (See how Nick takes a [...]

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My friend and fellow NYU Law alumnus Keith Takeda emailed me yesterday with news of In re Bilski. Given I was flying home from Microsoft PDC, I didn’t see it until today.
As soon as I saw it though, I alerted my Gartner colleagues that a major shift in patent law had just taken place. Now [...]

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