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When Was Your Last Technology “Refresher”

An assumption that one can make from our blog title is that I’m a big guy.  And one big assumption I made is that I learned everything we need to about exercise when I got out of high school.  No I’m...

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GooglePlus and the Diet Coke Rocket Car

I am ashamed that this is my first and probably only post on GooglePlus.  Not since the Diet Coke and Mentos thing or Google Wave (hint hint)  have so many people wanted to try something they saw on...

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Random Thought – Virtual Juries

So I am stuck – uh I mean – happily serving on jury duty this week. The judges and clerk of the court are lightheartedly apologetic about the time we have to spend waiting around but at least they have...

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Responding to Jeroen’s 2012 Surprises

EMC IIG Chief Architect Jeroen VanRotterdam suggests five things that may surprise us in 2012. It was a very thought provoking post and you should check it out. I had a few ideas in response but it was...

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Listen to Your Own Plumbers

Ron Miller’s piece on Changing the IT Plumber’s Image yesterday was excellent. Most businesses do not see the business value their own IT organizations can and SHOULD be providing. Instead of being...

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Employees Are Not Consumers – They are Comrades

Thought leaders (hate that term) are all abuzz with the consumerisation of IT. What they mean is that the modern workforce now has the expectation that their technology will be as good as the stuff...

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If Healthcare Were Software

The Supreme Court hearings on the Patient Protection and Affordability Act (Obamacare)  last week fascinated me. It is one of the few news stories in recent memory that requires you to think rather...

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Bloomberg’s War on Soda & IT Diets

Mayor Bloomberg announced last week his latest quixotic crusade against gravity challenged Americans (i.e. fat people) by proposing a ban on 32+oz. soft drinks. In keeping, or perhaps in spite of his...

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2013 – Random Tech Predictions

In addition to the new year’s ECM trend post I decided to write  a separate list of random tech predictions for those with shorter attention spans. Some are serious. Some less so. You can decide which...

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ECM in 2013 – Winds of Change

I am looking forward to 2013 in the ECM market more than in the last five years. The thing that interests me more than anything else is change and this year promises to be anything but dull. The status...

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The Last Architect

Much is written about the changing role of IT in organizations brought about by the cloud. I truly believe the days of corporate enterprise kingdoms  commanding huge budgets and headcount are numbered....

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Google Glass and Hair Loss

A few weeks ago I had a very entertaining twitter conversation with Lane Severson, Ron Miller, Peter Monks and Laurence Hart on the topic of Google Glass. The discussion included an exchange on the...

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Venture Investments in Content Analytics

To me Content Analytics has always been an intriguing field. When I saw what data mining could do with reporting on metadata stored within their vast databases, I was impressed. Being a believer of the...

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Three Ingredients of Good Partnerships

For the last several years I have been working in the partner channels organization at EMC. It has been a fascinating learning experience to watch the interaction from this angle and I was asked the...

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The Fear of Being Understood

Twitter lost one of its most popular citizens last week as Alec Baldwin deleted his account after yet another 140 character rampage. I do not care at all about a social media tennis match between a...

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Surprise – Your Project is a Failure

I have been thinking about project failure for the last several days. Perhaps because of the healthcare.gov problems or maybe because I put up Christmas lights that failed to entice even a single...

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ECM Trends 2014 – We Don’t Need Big Content

A friendly reminder that all of the opinions expressed here are completely my own and not those of my employer’s. I am late this year putting together my thoughts around trends for 2014 in ECM. To be...

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Deliberate Disruption

Last weekend Box CEO Aaron Levie tweeted “Disruption is the art of identifying which parts of the past are no longer relevant to the future, and exploiting that delta at all costs.” To which I...

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There Can Be Only One (Repository)?

For years I have believed in the Highlander principal (from the movie of the same name) for enterprise content management (ECM), There Can Be Only One.  I lived and breathed that mantra back at the...

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Two Guys and A Computer

Oddly I can’t go a month without someone asking me about an ECM competitor that I’ve never ever heard of before. I know I won’t ever know them all but it just surprises me how many vendors are out...

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