by Thomas Otter | August 10, 2009 | 5 Comments
The demise of a URL shortening service, Tri.um made me think a bit about the Internet generally. There are decades of science, engineering, standards, governance and accident that have created the protocols that make the Internet work. Its openness, flexibility and to use Zittrain’s term, generative nature, are in a large part because the Internet [...]
Category: internet software industry Tags: internet, URL Shortening
by Thomas Otter | August 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
I spoke with an organization the other day, they are re-implementing a core HR administrative system, because the implementation they did several years ago hasn’t had the take up from the HR department users. This puzzled me a bit. How come HR users can decide whether to use the corporate system or not? Administrative Finance [...]
Category: HR project software industry Tags: challenges, HR; IT, project
