I read an interesting article about how the pendulum is swinging back to centralization of IT resources. Two of the most important results are an increased effectiveness in decision rights – the way technology investment decisions are made – and in information flows from IT to the rest of the business. This is related to, but not identical to some of the observations I’ve been making in this blog. With centralized data, everyone can see the same information as it
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Mining for information is established on a much less solid foundation because the nature of the information you will uncover is by definition unknown, and hence the potential profits are also unknown. I’m not talking about business information systems that analyze sales trends and help identify emerging trends so you can make money by recognizing and keeping up with the trends. These are clearly tied to the profit motive and the business imperative is undeniable. I’m talking about the other types of information in the system such as project statistics, emails, twitter feeds, source code repositories, feature requests, performance statistics, operations logs, and so If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past 30+ years of user interface development, it’s that a given action should be invoked via multiple gestures. For a given command there is no single gesture that everyone can agree on is perfect for the task. Personally, when I’ve used a command more than about 3 or 4 times I start looking for its keyboard equivalent. Other people seem content to use a mouse for everything, but my carpal tunnel starts Occasionally I have to shift around my financial records from the early stone age – 1997 and before. My wife gets on my case to get rid of the paperwork but I never seem to get around to it. It doesn’t take up much room so why bother? In the back of my mind I can imagine a social anthropologist finding the files in an attic some 200 years from now and wondering in awe over the quaint practices of Volunteering is a great way to give back to the community, meet new and interesting people, and keep me from playing Civilization until the wee hours of the morning. OK, sometimes not so wee. I know it’s seriously time for bed when I hear traffic on the road – that means people are heading in to work and perhaps I should think about it too. Fortunately I don’t do that too often. Anyway, one of the things I have volunteered |
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