This post might be innovative. I doubt it’s inventive, mostly I’m reopening something that’s been open and I want to get a better understanding of why. I saw a lot the topics about innovation versus invention a few years ago. Now all I see in IT and especially IT business-related articles is the notion of [...]
Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) has been working on a very large software selection project for an electric utility. We only take on a few specific projects a year (though lots of people/companies use our analysis tools and data for their software selection projects). After our team mapped the utility’s business processes, quite diligently, to 6654 [...]
In a recent article from Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, Sean Silverthorne, does some Q&A with Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat about their research on the competition between Microsoft and Free and open source software (FOSS). It’s detailed and raises issues on FOSS distribution versus proprietary in relation to user adoption. The article notes that [...]
The Canadian Association for Open Source (Clue) published a thought provoking letter to an ITBusiness.ca article today. The Clue letter says that “…What is needed is for the government to separate the pricing and procurement of the source product from the various value-add services…” which is an interesting reflection for current musings about Public Works [...]
I suppose it’s obvious since I’m posting this, but I’m back to work after my holiday in the Maritimes. My wife and I covered a lot of ground in a week, especially through the inspiring landscapes of Fundy National Park (NB) and Cape Breton (NS). If you happen to travel there one interesting stop is [...]
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