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12.16.102010: The Year the Cloud Rolled InIt's pretty commonly understood that corporate computing has gone through three principal phases: centralized computing first, then the PC Era, then the age of the network. We could easily fit Enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, and lots of other recent developments into the network phase, but I think we'd be missing something if we did so. It became clear to me as I watched the digital economy in 2010 that we had passed a tipping point and moved into a new age of technology use. For lack of a better term, let's call this the Cloud Era. But this age is ...
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10.27.10Ray Ozzie's Message to All IndustriesMicrosoft recently announced that Ray Ozzie, its Chief Software Architect and a sage of the high tech world, is leaving the company. On his way out the door, he wrote a public memo titled "Dawn of a New Day". I believe the scenario he presents in the memo is important enough to place it alongside other famous, game-changing documents, such as Bill Gates' "The Internet Tidal Wave" memo from 1995, which set the direction for Microsoft for the next 15 years. In Ozzie's memo, he argues that the computer industries are at another of their periodic major inflection points. A ...
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10.27.10Ray Ozzie's Message to All IndustriesMicrosoft recently announced that Ray Ozzie, its Chief Software Architect and a sage of the high tech world, is leaving the company. On his way out the door, he wrote a public memo titled "Dawn of a New Day". I believe the scenario he presents in the memo is important enough to place it alongside other famous, game-changing documents, such as Bill Gates' "The Internet Tidal Wave" memo from 1995, which set the direction for Microsoft for the next 15 years. In Ozzie's memo, he argues that the computer industries are at another of their periodic major inflection points. A ...
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08.20.10How Your Smartphone Will Transform Your Elevator PitchListening to good entrepreneurs make their pitch is great fun. How well, or poorly, they align their passion and persuasiveness to the product details reveals a lot. Are they pushing an idea or telling a story? Is it all about their own charisma or is the innovative idea the real hero? Are we having a conversation or am I being sold? How will they get me to "get it"? All these entrepreneurial issues resurfaced during the recent Fortune technology conference in Aspen. There was no shortage of either articulate entrepreneurs or provocative ideas. So as Osman Rashid, who co-founded Chegg.com, described ...
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08.13.10No, Google Is Not Making You StupidNick Carr is right — or is he? Of course, Google and the Web have changed our reading habits and affected our attention spans. The changing nature of technology is driving us to consume a greater number of ideas today in less depth. Throughout history, societies have evolved around new technologies — the plow, the printing press, the telephone. And as our societies have changed, so have we. We adapt to our surroundings. We evolve to fit the world just as we endeavor to keep changing it. That's the virtuous circle of human evolution. My 11-year-old daughter spends half her ...
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12.24.09How You Lowered Your Information StandardsIn my last blog, I argued that people don't care enough about their information environments to prevent overload. This week I am focusing on a related behavioral change that has important implications for companies that produce information products and services: As information grows in quantity, consumers of it are willing to accept lower quality. I call this willingness satisficing — being satisfied with sacrificing quality. I am supported in this contention by one of The New York Times's "The Year in Ideas" items that appeared last Sunday. Called "Good Enough Is the New Great," it describes our society's increasing willingness ...
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12.09.09Why We Don’t Care About Information OverloadI gave a presentation this week on decision-making, and someone in the audience asked me if I thought information overload was an impediment to effective decision-making. "Information overload...yes, I remember that concept. But no one cares about it anymore," I replied. In fact, nobody ever did. But why not? We've been reading articles in the press about information overload being the bane of productivity for almost twenty years. (Here's a link to a fairly recent article in Harvard Business Review on the topic called "Death by Information Overload" and a related blog.) And there is no doubt that the information load ...
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10.01.09How Much is Information Overload Costing Your Company?A blog post I wrote a year ago posed a question: "What's so bad about information overload?" An article I wrote for the September issue of Harvard Business Review answered that question: A lot. The article, "Death by Information Overload," describes some of the ways information overload may be causing you harm: increased stress, impaired cognition, "information addiction." (One study found that 11% of email users had tried to hide, from a spouse or family member, the fact that they were checking their BlackBerries.) The article clearly struck a chord, and people responded with their own personal tales of overload woe. But ...
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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