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These days it seems like everyone is an Apple aficionado. Apple is praised by many because they hang on to their strategy of building superior products. That has not always worked out as it does now. They may have had smarter and better products but they were unable to take advantage of it. In fact, […] Read more »
We can learn from the past. We can act in the present. We can speculate about the future. With the 20th anniversary of the world wide web only just behind us, the mainframe’s 45th anniversary two years ago, and the iPhone’s 5th anniversary coming up next year, a brief discussion on the past, present, and […] Read more »
A couple of months ago we wondered if Europe would be ready for the digital age. We got a bit worried after the Sony hack which caused a lot of credit card info to be stolen. Such events can potentially hurt citizen and business confidence in cloud computing and may lead to distrust regarding government’s […] 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 »
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 »
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 »