7 Speeds of Fast
I once read that John “Pieface” McKenzie, a Boston Bruin in the Bobby Orr era, described Orr as having “7 speeds of Fast”. I don’t have the actual quote but I recall the context of his comment being that he was skating up the ice one game, thinking he was going pretty fast, when Bobby glided past him, going much faster, but appearing to be barely exerting himself. The world we live in almost always puts a premium on speed. Business wants to bring products to market...
Read MoreCollaboration and Enterprise IT
In a keynote speech earlier this year at a Big Data conference in California, Geoffrey Moore talk about how the consumerisation of IT will affect the enterprise. Here are some of this thoughts and implications from my perspective. He suggested that since the 1970’s, enterprise IT has focused on building / deploying large systems of record. These would be the admin systems, billing systems, finance and HR systems with the requisite building blocks like database management systems...
Read MoreArchitecture – A Definition I Like
My father was a draftsman by trade. His old school skills were beautiful to behold. “Lettering” was the name given to the printing of labels on drawings done on those old drafting boards with sliding arms that allowed lines to be drawn anywhere. He could letter clearer than a typewriter could type. He took his trade to the classroom in later years and I would often practice drawing stuff out of books that he provided – funny shapes, blocks, etc. It was this stuff that...
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