Archive for the 'Useful Metaphors' Category

Why are we still talking about The Stack?

May 9, 2007

I have been an attendee of MR Rangaswami’s enterprise software conferences since their inception five years ago, and yesterday’s sessions of Software 2007 (see www.sandhill.com) deserve some response.
Hasso Plattner is a smart guy, to be sure, and his keynote address acknowledged the massive transformation we are witnessing in the software industry.  Pundits have commented on his [...]

Content/Container

April 28, 2007

With thanks to Dave Snowden’s latest commentary in our Value Networks online dialogues (see www.cognitive-edge.com)…
Dave, your latest observations about HTML lead me to relate an anecdote from my book’s research.  (I will leave the semantic and psychological variations to those better qualified, with one note: it has been my observation that we must change our [...]

Teaching “…the Mirror” to CIOs

March 16, 2007

During today’s presentation to the San Jose CIO Community of Practice, several underlying themes (of the book, of these blog commentaries) were discussed; as promised, I will note them here, so that the attendees of the session have an opportunity to “extend the discussion…”
As with last week’s presentation at the Naval Postgraduate School, though with [...]