CIOs: innovation? What innovation?
New survey of 2,000 chief information officers finds widespread inability to innovate; and a lot of concern about finding and retaining skills. Top recruiting target: enterprise architects.
Service Oriented
Service technology -- from SOA to cloud to IT service management -- promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with service orientation, and how to capitalize on these emerging computing philosophies.
Joe McKendrick
Joe McKendrick is an author, consultant and speaker specializing in trends and developments shaping the technology industry.
Latest Posts
Does a 'fiscal cliff' await software vendors switching to cloud?
No one in the industry is talking about any fears they may be having about the cloud -- at least not out loud.
A master's-level computer science degree, delivered via MOOCs
Massive open online courses will soon deliver an advanced comp-sci degree at a very, very low price, courtesy of Georgia Tech, Udacity and AT&T.
IBM divulges private cloud progress in an infographic
IBM eats its own dog food, reporting significant cost savings and more customer interactions with its private cloud.
Reuse comes to pass in the app world
With millions of apps already out there, why re-invent the wheel?
Mandatory 'bring your own device' on the horizon, Gartner predicts
Gartner predicts employees will be expected to provide their own mobile devices for work; foresees more back-end cloud infrastructure to support it. Their advice: keep it simple.
When mobile drives service-oriented inititiatives
Target IT executives describe the challenges of building consistency into in-store, mobile, and customer call center interfaces.
Cars become 'datacenters on wheels', car makers become software companies
There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data a day — where's it all going to go? That's what many organizations are just starting to find out, as explored at IBM's latest conference.
How to participate in the $25 billion app economy
One developer's mini success story: Multiply by 3 million, and you have a thriving economic model for service development.
Bringing design thinking to information technology
'Design is more than just creativity, or a phase in creating a product, service, or application. It’s a way of thinking that can transform an entire enterprise.'