September 7, 2012
A good reflection on whether Agile has really delivered and of course, it depends on where you stand. However, there are some insightful comments in here, including from an author of the original Agile Manifesto - who isn't so sure. As they say, your mileage may vary.
September 7, 2012
A great short article looking at agility from a business perspective and usefully characterising the things that make beyond agile businesses highly successful - think of Aviarc as a perfectly suited enabler for an organization setting out to be more agile - but invariably needing a way IT can genuinely keep up (and actually be part of the solution, not part of the problem)!
July 3, 2012
Another excellent article from Dion Hinchcliffe of ZDNet. "As some expected, the move to incorporate social media into the way enterprises get work their done has been a difficult one, yet traction increasingly appears to be at hand. Along the way, new software products continue to emerge in the Enterprise 2.0 space, continuing the variety and innovation needed to keep lift going as the industry matures into a major component of the software business...." Nice stats, trends and quotes data t support Dion's argument.
July 1, 2012
A really useful and extremely insightful whitepaper from Forrester Research. We suggest you read this as describing the need for Aviarc as the exact platform to deliver on ALL the needs described (including the deep architecture needed to surface the right agility/outcomes) BUT not just mobile – across all platforms/channels. Once you do this, you've got a pretty good description of much of what Aviarc does!
July 1, 2012
A really useful and extremely insightful whitepaper from Forrester Research. We suggest you read this as describing the need for Aviarc as the exact platform to deliver on ALL the needs described (including the deep architecture needed to surface the right agility/outcomes) BUT not just mobile – across all platforms/channels. Once you do this, you've got a pretty good description of much of what Aviarc does!
July 1, 2012
A concise and insightful article on what drives change and innovation and the economic impact of it. There are three key lessons if you want to survive: 1) Give innovation space, 2) Be ruthlessly agile, 3) Move from managing by command and control to inspire and support. If you're wondering how the heck you can get IT and especially software applications to enable these three things - look no further; that's exactly why Aviarc exists.
June 25, 2012
We met lots of interesting folks and enjoyed some great discussions, Shane won a laptop (thanks Intel) and we'd recommend this conference to anyone wanting to cut through the noise and see how cloud is starting to shape as mainstream
June 25, 2012
At last week's Cloud Leadership Forum, which was sponsored by IDC Research and IDG Enterprise, officials from IBM, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com came together to discuss their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. PaaS is a way to develop and deliver applications in the Cloud, but it's the least mature of the three major cloud delivery models compared to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). And pretty much one of the only things all four companies agree on is that PaaS is still in its early days. We particularly like the pragmatic comments by Mac Devine of IBM, later on in the article.
June 5, 2012
Engagement matters. According to the Gallup Organization, organizations that have optimized customer engagement outperformed their competitors by 26 percent in gross margin and 85 percent in sales growth. The percentage of engaged employees in world class organizations is double that of average organizations. In the U.S. alone, Gallup estimates that the cost of disengaged employees in lost productivity is $370 billion per year.
April 27, 2012
"Summary: Cloud thinking is everywhere this spring with diminishing fear factor and business advantages being seriously considered. As this new era of enterprise technology gains momentum, fluffy conceptualizing needs to be replaced with more pragmatic thinking if challenger momentum is to gain weight and heft"
April 27, 2012
"These strategies will help organizations make the transition to a new type of IT, one that is more open, innovative, decentralized, agile, and sustainable." We really like Dion's Blogs in general as he seems to think through how IT with business will emerge from the enormous upheaval and changes that confront them.