Digital World
"The advantages of digital over analog largely lie in the 
areas of distribution. As we all know, digital information can be endlessly replicated with no loss of data. The downside of digital lies in the loss of subtleties that analogs of reality capture: digital is not a direct impression, merely a representation.
"However, the representation of information in digital form is often all that is needed in any circumstance to process choice and make decisions."
12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
"The flattening of organizations, the non-hierarchical communication, the free and open exchange of information encouraged by Enterprise 2.0 platforms will be looked on as potentially disruptive by some and as a breath of freedom by others. Neither will be entirely right but the apps will stay in place with tweaks and controls added along the way to address the inevitable and unfortunate misuses that will be encountered during their adoption.
"Enterprise search will remain broken or highly limited in most organizations. I’ve covered previously the many reasons why search can’t work in the typical enterprise without enormous effort and consequently this won’t be fixed for most organizations this year. However, good enterprise search is necessary to leverage the fast growing and woefully under-leveraged information warehoused in the vast acreages of most enterprise data centers. Workers are still left with literally no choice but to pull their information from the Web or sequentially rummage through various silos to piece together what they need instead of putting a few keywords in an enterprise search engine and scanning the results. The unfortunate news: The penetration of local search engines into enterprise data will only improve a handful of percentage points this year."
Ten Related Trends for 2008
"Don't expect this to be a fad, we will find user-generated content spreading ever further. Nike already allows you to design your own shoes. Soon it will be almost anything, which is at some stage in digital form, that will then find an opportunity to let users adjust it, fine-tune, it, or even design in."
Maintaining a 25% profit margin in this crazy world of globalization
"The key advantage the Indian firms hold is that they are scaling outward from their Indian bases, with sound understanding of the next locations where they need to establish themselves (Latin America, China, Eastern Europe etc). Hence, they are in a great position to keep a lid on their costs, whereas the Western suppliers have been forced to re-engineer their entire global delivery infrastructures in recent years to move away from high-cost locales and establish themselves in offshore territories, which comes with many new challenges and costs."
Microsoft restores Office 2003 users’ access to old file types
"Given that Microsoft’s initial decision to block the older Office formats made it look like the company was trying to force customers to use the newer Office Open XML (OOXML) ones — perish the thought! — Microsoft’s file-format about-face was an especially savvy decision. Microsoft doesn’t need any more bad press about OOXML before the February ISO standards vote than it has already gotten..."
IBM Trying to Keep Up With the Cloud Jones’s
"We’re going to see this pace continue to accelerate, and we’re going to see those who want to be players jockeying to make sure that they have all the elements in their Cloud Platform Suite. It’s still to early to tell what the exact combination of ingredients for success will be, but so far it looks like Amazon is the head chef when we see others trying to emulate what they’ve done.
"Meanwhile this is fantastic news for developers and startups that want to embrace these technologies. The danger in things like Amazon’s Web Services is that they are so unique that you become utterly dependant on them. The more others offer the same sort of services, the more competition can work its magic and make the whole scene more vibrant, cheaper, and innovative."
