Source to Success
Sometimes you look at a company and think: they seem to be doing all the right things but why doesn’t it work? During the Colt Influencer Event 2011 in London it seemed indeed that Colt has come a long way from its telecom days, transforming into a state of the art ICT network solution provider. […] Read more »
Most people have never seen a mainframe. They think of them as a huge iron cabinet filling up a large clean room with attached to it green screen terminals pouring out ASCII code: a remnant of the past. Yet they have been around since the 1960s and are alive and kicking today. While many predicted […] Read more »
Pim Bilderbeek, METISfiles principal analyst for the Elastic Enterprise, was recently interviewed by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR). The IIAR is a not-for-profit organisation established to raise awareness of analyst relations and the value of industry analysts, promote best practice amongst analyst relations professionals, enhance communication between analyst firms and vendors, and offer […] Read more »
Whenever I read about the ‘Flexible Workforce’ or ’The Future of Work’ (‘Het Nieuwe Werken, HNW’) I wonder whether the concept is a means to an end, an objective or a result. Governments and ICT vendors are telling us this concept can help us to overcome the problems an aging population will bring about and, […] Read more »
Somewhere in the mid nineties Intel announced that they were entering a new market: the market of videoconferencing. They were convinced that their timing was right and that the rapidly growing cost of business travel could be pushed back by organizations through adoption of teleconferencing technology. During conferences they showed the audience how it worked […] Read more »
An estimated fifty thousand e-readers were shipped last year in the Netherlands. A disappointing result. The e-reader market seems to vanish before it even got started. The success of Apple’s iPad seems nothing less than a death warrant for the e-reader. Having shipped over a quarter of a million iPad devices in less than six […] Read more »