The Blockchain in Brief

The BlockChain: Why does it matter? This is a Blockchain discussion designed to move the conversation back to the business view… seeking to enable readers to better understand the return on that investment to their business. In this case: just what is the blockchain; why and how does the blockchain matter to business; and to […]

Compete or Collaborate .. or Both?

Compete or Collaborate… or Both? “Get used to the concept of co-existence” “… Disrupt things with a Consortium model” “Reach up into the growth space to take back your market from big players” The progressive views about your marketing, your customers and your competition as espoused by Seth Godin are seldom things with which I […]

Beware the Cloudists

Beware the Cloud-ists Let’s start by saying that I like cloud and have done since well before it was called cloud. Clouds have featured in pretty much every solution I’ve designed in the last decade. These days, however, we have the processing power, capacity and bandwidth to enable smart, utility delivery of the commodity aspects […]

DeRisk the Cloud: Business Risk & Cloud Computing

Introduction Risk fits clearly into the ‘eye of the beholder’ category across the average enterprise and so any conversation discussing Risk in the context of Cloud Computing should start with some definition of just what we mean by the words themselves: like Cloud, there are different definitions, perspectives and requirements which, if not managed, can […]