Safaricom is revolutionizing what currency means in Kenya with M-PESA. A true, radical innovator, in an industry characterized by many fossilized players in developed countries. Will I ever see an “Enterprise 2.0″ case study on Safaricom? Yes, if they deploy a wiki, social networking platform, etc. Otherwise, no. How crazy is that? Their combination of …
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“Features” has now become a useless concept when evaluating IT projects">“Features” has now become a useless concept when evaluating IT projects
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The rising scarcity of attention makes the concept of “features” increasingly irrelevant. IT and Business Executives need to unlearn using this concept as an evaluation tool for IT applications. If vendors want to increase their market share, they also need to make sure “features” is …
How Cloud Computing Technologies are shifting the basis of Competitive Advantage
Expand to see inline the other posts in IT Management» Executives need to understand how the increasing availability and depth of Cloud Computing technologies are impacting their organizations’ competitive advantages. After responding to A. McAfee’s challenge of a good cloud computing metaphor in a previous post, I felt compelled to clarify and complete. My metaphor …
In search of a cloud computing metaphor? Think Harrods, with some twists
The metaphors used to describe any technology strongly shape its future, through their influence on executives. As Andrew McAfee (now at the MIT after Harvard) notes about Cloud Computing, different imageries are currently competing. As Andrew points out, the electric grid metaphor can influence business executives to view Cloud Computing as a commodification of a …
IT projects">User Adoption risks are growing rapidly for IT projects
Expand to see inline the other posts in IT Management» Organizations tend to concentrate on 2 different risks for IT projects, while a third one may be impacting the most their chances of success.
“Technical Risks” and “Business Risks” are widely used notions. The first comprises the risks that can affect the IT infrastructure (e.g., bring …
Pilots are not for profit-making. And we’re not playing games.
Expand to see inline the other posts in IT Management» This post is the first of the vendors series, exploring client-vendors partnership considerations. They’re all tagged and you can find them here.
James Gardner has a post up explaining how he and his team are looking at vendors coming to them with a new technology to …
IT Investments (part 1)">The relevant user groups for targeted IT Investments (part 1)
Expand to see inline the other posts in IT Management» Cut access to Facebook? Roll-out the iPhone? Deploy wikis and blogs? All are investment decisions and all should be based on cold economic analysis. They rarely are. For a simple fact: the end-users are either indiscriminately put in one single bag (“the Employees”) or they …
CIA field ops manual…">How to sabotage an organization: CIA field ops manual…
Expand to see inline the other posts in Organizational Strategy» This is making the rounds in the blogosphere, and while it isn’t actually helpful, it does make for a good intro piece in a speech, talk, etc.
Coming from the 1944 Simple sabotage field manual, on how to sabotage an organization (page 28):
(1) Insist on doing everything through …
IT = the new VCs ?">Innovators in corporate IT = the new VCs ?
I’m delighted to take a new position within Schlumberger: I’m coordinating our corporate IT Innovation efforts, with an emphasis on knowledge management (stop laughing, this is not your father’s KM, I’ll look at the most innovative stuff here). Also relocating to Paris from London.
We structure this activity in a pretty standard way, and I won’t …
by Julien Le Nestour