Todays message was delivered in spite of having the flu, what timing? Maybe my sweat and shivering was mistakenly taken as a sign of nervousness. The topics included SOA Architectures, Security, Web Portals, and migration experiences. Excellent ...

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Why is it that SOA implementations focuses so much time on SOAP. WSDL, UDDI and not about governance, enterprise application integration, and metadata management? The basic question I asked the attendees at this weeks SOA conference was what are ...

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13,000 Jobs will vanish with another attempt to gain a competitive advantage by bonding two distinct corporations, cultures, customer bases, and business models. I am speaking of the SBS and AT&T Merger. Jim Collins mentioned that not a single c...

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One of the presentations that I want to put together in the coming months is how do you create a personal brand online. After much thought, I decided that these items should be the first three steps. First, update your resume with content and st...

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According to Ed Batista, I have been promoted to an obscure blogger. Excellent!, I love it. Bloggers will take over the world and I am late to the game. How about you? And, I will repeat my rant from last month. Where the heck are all of the Da...

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Ok, I want to read Tom Peters latest rant on OutSourcing. How should I go about that in the physical world. Only Assumption: He wrote about it in his latest book.

1. Locate a Bookstore in the Yellow Pages and obtain the address. (check a...

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Taking a page from Tom Peters, I am going to provide access to all of my speaking materials online. There is no longer a member’s area, but open access in order to expand the body of knowledge before it’s too late. You can find the materials on h...

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In the past, corporations built their Information Technology organization around two primary skill categories: technical and professional. Technical skills included the specific skills required to design, develop, or operate systems which include...

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Not sure why this thought emerged today but perhaps its because we are entering into the 2004 review and 2005 objectives period of time. If you draw a timeline, beginning with your first job and ending the line today, you will see your career as ...

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Have you read much about Folksonomies? The idea is simple yet profound. Allow users to classify content based on their own classification system. Dont build extended top-down ontologies or taxonomies; allow them to emerge from the ground up. T...

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Excellent!!
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/Press/xml%20standards.pdf#search='Key%20XML%20Specifications%20post...

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After pondering and reading a ton of material on this concept, I have come to one conclusion; Folksonomies are one of the first Consumer taxonomies. Yes, I know that a single term classification system does not a taxonomy make. However, think ab...

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At a recent presentation, the speaker brought up the dramatic drop in the cost of storage. In 1988, a gigabyte of storage cost around $10,000 while today that same storage runs about 0.54 cents. This simple statistic reiterates that we are in an...

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This month’s article focuses on the entire Metadata environment which includes: The Asset Portal, The Traditional Repository, Business Processes, Application Processes, and Customer Support Environment. The repository environment is a complex col...

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Pondering today why we enjoy the simple web based applications in our personal life but complexity rules the day in the business world. For example, three technologies are emerging from the Internet environment: wiki, weblog (blog), and folksonom...

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This week I will head to Orlando to present the future of business intelligence to a group that already leads the way in most technology environments. The message will surround the impact of Service Oriented Architecture to the world of BI. Whil...

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Practice, Practice, PracticeThere is no substitute for this. Every professional speaker spends an enormous amount of time working out the session. “It takes me three weeks to put together a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain. ...

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Last week, I read an interesting story about a college professor that gave a final exam to his soon-to-be graduating seniors. The test questions were divided into three categories and the students were instructed to choose questions from only one...

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Implementing Metadata is simple when you take a simple view of the effort. Four activities can be borrowed from Tom Peters ReImagine and applied to our world. First, take every repository, business process, and librarian function and turn it int...

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