Name: Doug Mow
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Posts by Doug Mow:
- 1951 – 1976: Mainframe computing
- 1976 – 1992: PC computing
- 1992 – 2008: Network computing
- 2008 – 2016: Accelerated innovation
Enterprise Mobility – Key Things to Consider When Pursuing Mobility Implementation
June 9th, 2011Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with Jeffrey Hammond, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Rohit Sharma, Global Head of Mobility at Virtusa. The topic was “Overcoming Challenges in Early Stage Enterprise Mobility Programs”. This post is a short synopsis of the webinar. For those who were not able to attend the session, you can view it here.
The webinar started with Jeffrey Hammond reflecting back to the early 1980’s with the introduction of the personal computer. He offered his observation that many IT organizations are reacting to mobile devices and smartphones today in the same way IT organizations greeted the PC; with skepticism and doubt. Today, the personal computer is a dominant platform for computing power, a major productivity tool and a huge segment of the technical market. Hammond predicted that mobile computing will exceed the personal computer many times over. Read the rest of this entry “
Accelerated Innovation – Going beyond Conventional Wisdom
May 31st, 2011Depending on who you read, we are in the fourth or fifth wave of computer technology development. In 2005, Om Malik and Michael Copeland published The Fifth Wave in Business 2.0 Magazine. They defined their waves as the eras of mainframe, mid-range, PC, Internet and networked computing. Written six years ago, their premonition preceded smartphones by many years.
In 2009, Forrester Research VP Andrew Bartels cited US Department of Commerce data showing that we are in the fourth wave of technology investment. Specifically, the four waves are:
Each of the waves experiences two phases – innovation and growth followed by refinement and digestion. The current phase of accelerated innovation is in the innovation and growth phase, coinciding with the global economic recovery cycle. Bartels substantiates his position by analyzing the US IT investment to GDP ratio CAGR for each phase. The average ratio for the growth eras is 4% while the average for the refinement eras is -1.13%. Read the rest of this entry “
Optimizing Your Business with Pervasive Business Intelligence
March 30th, 2011Recently, I was accompanied by Boris Evelson of Forrester Research and Ajoy Kumar, leader of Virtusa’s data warehousing and business intelligence practice for a webinar on Pervasive Business Intelligence. In the webinar, with attendees from industry and blogging community, Boris and Ajoy discussed the issues associated with pervasive business intelligence as well as best practices and benefits organizations can expect to derive from BI.
Before Boris (@bevelson) began his session, I asked him “what is your definition of pervasive BI?” His answer was a company in which BI is everywhere, data and information are readily available, and an organization which is poised to compete not only on the basis of its goods or services but on the quality of its decisions as well. That definition places a culture of “informed decision making” at a premium and views BI as a vehicle to deliver the information upon which critical decisions are based.
Are You Primed for BPM Success?
February 22nd, 2011Recently, I was joined by Clay Richardson of Forrester Research and Virtusa’s own Vinaykumar Mummigatti for a webinar that examined the challenges associated with BPM projects. In the fall of 2008, Elise Olding of Gartner speculated that “over 50% of BPM projects will fail by 2011”. Two months into 2011, we have observed that her estimate, as controversial as it was at the time, was actually low. Virtusa has observed the failure rate to be somewhat higher due to a variety of reasons.
2011: Advantage Enterprise 2.0
December 30th, 2010This post marks Virtusa’s fiftieth blog posting. Starting in April of 2010, Virtusan’s have offered their insights into a wide variety of technology issues, trends and business challenges. It seems fitting that our half century mark should come at the end of calendar year 2010.
The year 2010 saw the arrival of the mobile app as an indisputable force to be reckoned with. With iPhone and Android app stores carrying hundreds of thousands of applications each, there is no denying that apps have arrived. As we watch new mobile devices, new social sites, and slick new apps being released with blinding speed we are quite possibly witnessing an inflection point in human history. Consider this time the dawn of the true technology era. Like the Italian Renaissance, we have our artists and visionaries. Instead of Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Galileo in Italy we have Gates, Jobs, Berners-Lee, Metcalf, Joy, Torvalds, AT&T Bell Labs, Xerox PARC and Silicon Valley. One hundred years from now historians may look back at this time and declare this period of time the start of the technology revolution. Star Wars and Matrix are our Mona Lisa and statue of David? Scary.
The 20th Century Application is Dead
November 23rd, 2010Last week’s ITxpo Symposium in Cannes drew more than three thousand attendees, over half of which were senior level IT executives. The conference agenda offered insights into future trends in typical Gartner fashion – high impact, broad sweeping trends combined with business imperatives. There were three themes that were repeated many times – application retirement, a new era of enterprise application and innovation.. Read the rest of this entry “
BPM and Enterprise 2.0: Seize your Destiny
November 9th, 2010Now that the US mid term elections are over, it is time to get back to work. This week is Gartner’s ITxpo in Cannes, France. Two weeks ago, they held the sister event in Orlando, Florida. The Florida event was heavily attended, with some veterans comparing it to 1999 or 2000. Any conference or event that can compare its attendance to any time pre 9/11 would be considered wildly successful. Does that performance provide insight into IT pressures in the coming months? Are these conferences accurate predictors of business climate? And, if they are indicators of coming trends, what should IT personnel be looking for? Read the rest of this entry “
