Last week, Manmohan and I delivered a well attended webinar on why API’s are critical to an innovative mobile strategy. The content is great, as was Manmohan’s delivery. I felt I wasn’t particularly “on the ball” if you will. I hope that didn’t distract too much from the important insights I shared. Mobile really is different from what’s been happening in [...]

“People are going to use them for personal productivity, but that’s not where real work will be done.” Ok, maybe that’s not a real quote. It was the voices in my head, as I was brainstorming about next week’s webinar, Why an Innovative Mobile Strategy Requires a Robust API. Except, the voices in my head weren’t talking about mobile devices. [...]

One of the fundamental problems with mainframe computing was that it didn’t scale. That’s right. IT didn’t scale. See that? That’s capital “IT”? Oh, the mainframe scaled well enough. But the people that ran it? Not so much. Fast forward a bit, and here we are at the golden age of distributed computing. And guess what. IT still doesn’t scale. [...]

I’m probably not connecting all the dots here, bear with me. If you have a mobile strategy, you’re going to be using API’s. It’s the “only way*” to support the breadth of devices to natively access corporate digital assets. If you are already delivering API’s, and delivering them across different teams/businesses to enable a mobile strategy, why not just expose [...]

For those of you who don’t know me personally, or know me well enough, I seem to have a talent for metaphor. In fact, I think one of the things that I do best is explain complex ideas in ways others can understand, and so that they realize how the idea is relevant to them. While technically not a metaphor, [...]

There was a day, a couple of years ago now, where I was let down by a process. I had forgotten the story until yesterday. And, when I shared it with my wife, her first respnonse was “yeah, we were really sad about how that worked out”. Even marking the timing of the story speaks to how we relate the [...]

How does a company leverage the same energy seen in the consumer space to drive innovation inside the enterprise? Why couldn’t there be a “corporate instagram-like success”? Why can’t a corporate enterprise service bus excite imagination the way Twitter has? Often its the people way down in the trenches that have great ideas about improvements to the business. Other times, [...]

  Do you know iKnow? iKnow is: “a process visibility solution featuring real-time performance and cycle-time monitoring with ‘right-time’ alerts when transactions and trends are outside measured norms” In smaller words, it’s a way to know what’s happening in your supply chain with enough information and context to fix problems and then prevent them from recurring. Need even smaller words? [...]