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There were 6 blog postings during November (2007):
Google the new Microsoft? No comparison
...at least when it comes to discussion on the web.
Google announced its OpenSocial social networking API project just 5 days ago—and now the company's own search engine reports over 7,700,000 hits for OpenSocial. And it's still alpha...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 6th November '07
Ah yes, it's BPM... but which BPM is it?
Arch BPM blogger-cum-analyst Sandy Kemsley references an interesting conversation she had with some webMethods customers at Software AG's Integration World event where the customers pooh pooh the BPM vendors who don't provide the whole integration...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 8th November '07
Roles play a prominent role in identity management this week
Back in September, Oracle announced that it had acquired privately-held Enterprise Role Management (ERM) player Bridgestream continuing its identity management-through-acquisition strategy. With many eyes focused on the company's Oracle Open World...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 16th November '07
Who do you put in a Centre of Excellence?
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen throwaway comments exhorting companies to create a centre of excellence (CoE) (mostly, for initiatives like SOA or BPM). Vendor / pundit / analyst / journalist: Having trouble? Establish a centre of...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 21st November '07
Not all processes are created equal - at least under the lens of IT
Andrew McAfee at Harvard Business school poses an interesting question:
do 'managers' belong on the list of knowledge workers whose jobs are being transformed by information technology?
His question is prompted by a number of...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 23rd November '07
Nodding about nodding dog alignment
I just came across Steve Jones' post, Nodding dog alignment - the perils of aligning to people not business, in which he points out the sad reality that many IT organisations, which believe they are aligned with the business, aren't actually...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 28th November '07