Five keys to a modern operating model
Ask a dozen consultants what the term “digital transformation” means and you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. The term has become so overused and so lac...
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Is there a ‘can’ in your future?
In the economics of computing the most expensive resource is still the network. In scenarios where large data-sets are being processed it is almost always cheap...
The Service Dilemma [eBook]
I’m delighted to make available our new publication “The Services Dilemma” as a free eBook download. The Services Transformation and the algor...
Cloud Computing and Complexity
The business of Information Technology (IT) has a complexity problem. As a domain IT requires deeply specialized skills, the language of IT is arcane and busine...
Why There’s No Future in Cloud Futures
An interesting debate took place at last week’s Cloud2020 gathering regarding the viability of futures markets for cloud computing capacity. I’m fir...
The Composable Enterprise
We have witnessed a major shift over recent decades towards a digital services based economy[1]. Exponential growth in the power of information technology enhan...
The Laws of Platform Economics
The economic evolution of computing platforms appears to be guided by a number of ‘Laws’ that are independent of any specific underlying technology....
Cloud Computing: A Short Guide For The Perplexed
Over the last couple of years the term cloud computing has become become public relations shorthand for “Look, look, we’re also cool.” The exp...
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Economics and Platform Architecture (Part 3)
Part 2 of this series of articles looked at how transitioning from scarcity to an abundance of fundamental computing resources enabled the historic one-to-one r...
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Economics and Platform Architecture (Part 2)
Part I in this series of articles outlined the impact that the economics of scarcity has had on both software architectures and the structure of the computer in...