Dovetail Software Blogs: How To Innovate
”...sometimes
innovation comes out of necessity in response to disruptive change.
This type of innovation goes a step beyond mere survival and can
actually be a positive turning point for the company that rises to the
occasion. Disruption can be seen as a spur to innovation, not just a
disaster.”
The new war machine
“It
was the volume and coordination of the attacks that distinguished them.
It wasn’t just one computer or one Web site that was targeted; this was
spread across the entire country from the libraries to government
institutions. We have information in this country of other countries
trying to gain access to our machines. It’s kind of a new Cold War. In
the 1950s and ’60s, [the Soviets] would send fighters into the Alaskan
airspace and see how fast we’d respond — and of course, we’d do the
same. The same thing is now occurring on the Internet. One country
says, “How many different sites can I break into in the U.S.?” And then
the United States responds, and they want to know how quickly we fill
those holes. “
Enterprise Architecture: When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation?
“His
statement isn’t just limited to bloggers but to folks who are
practicing enterprise architecture in large corporations. We are
constantly being pressured to extend our sphere of influence which has
a dilution effect on our quality of conversation at the expense of
perception management. There is a fine balance between reaching out to
other demographics within the enterprise and staying more insular so as
to have maximum impact.”
Microsoft, Facebook, and the shift of the platform to social networks
“This
is all about the platform of the future. The computing platforms of the
past have been dominated by Windows. More recently the level of the
dominant and meaningful platform is the web-based application. It is
quite likely that the level of the platform that can extract the most
value in the future is at or close to the level of the social network.”
“In
some ways, a business service is almost like an iPod, he added: ‘It
does only one thing, but it does it perfectly and it fits in with the
other things you want to do.’”
Gartner Summit: State of CRM Is Strong
“Cliff
Conneighton, senior vice president of marketing, gathered from the
event that Web 2.0 technologies are broadening the definition of CRM —as well as its universe of vendors, he told CRM Buyer.
”’Gartner
was very big on user generated content and the various forms of
communities that have developed online as taking a more important role
in a CRM operation,’ he said. ‘I think for a long time CRM
was the realm of two large players. This year, though, there was less
of a sense of that and more of an impression that there are a number of
players out there doing interesting things in these areas.’”
SOA Tools
“I
have absolutely seen project failures due to selecting bad fit
software. Certainly include your strategic vendors in a software
selection process, but make sure the software is an architectural fit
and make the vendors prove to you that the software works in your
environment through a rigorous POC.”
Avoid Vendor Driven Architecture (VDA)!
” This means understanding your own business drivers, or the business reasons for building the SOA.
Define just what success will be, the proper amount of investment,
strategic considerations around the growth of the business, and
committed resources for the execution toward SOA.
Next comes the hard work of figuring out your own issues and
requirements, including a complete and detailed understanding of the
data present in the problem domain or enterprise, as well as an
inventory of candidate services, and a fully decomposed understanding
of the major business processes.”
