Source to Success
The METISfiles presented at the DatacenterWorks BICSI Conference in The Open, Tiel, on April 15. Pim Bilderbeek, Principal Analyst, wrapped up the event with a presentation on how Data Centers are changing under influence of the Cloud. The METISfiles argues that data centers are changing from vertical application oriented infrastructure pipes to horizontally connected layers. […] Read more »
Innovation is the process whereby organizations transform ideas into improved products, service or processes, in order to advance, compete and differentiate themselves successfully in their marketplace. Alliances can have a defining role in this process. Cooperation between vendors, suppliers, consumers and competitors provide complementary know-how and skills. However, not every alliance type supports innovation. For […] 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 »
Scenario planning is used by business strategists to prepare their companies for different futures. Why is this necessary? Simply because predicting the future is not an exact science. If the future cannot be known it is only prudent to be prepared for several permutations of possible futures. A popular way of scenario planning is sketching […] Read more »
Toen koning Shirham van Sissa een prachtig schaakspel had gekregen vroeg de koning hoe hij hem hiervoor kon belonen. Sissa antwoordde dat hij graag op het eerste vlak van het schaakbord één graankorrel zag, en op elk daarna volgende vlak de dubbele hoeveelheid graankorrels van het voorgaande vlak. De berg graan waarmee Sissa naar huis […] Read more »
KPN gaat stoppen met de exploitatie van openbare telefooncellen. Omdat ik in het tijdperk van de bakelieten telefoons ben opgegroeid, treft zo’n bericht mij als een mokerslag. Toch was het me al opgevallen dat de laatste jaren er heel wat cellen letterlijk en figuurlijk waren gesneuveld. Niet alleen in Nederland, België en Duitsland, maar zelfs […] Read more »