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Par davidjf le 17/01/07 - 15:40

IT ROI, again, a nice contribution with 3 categories of funding for IT applications

Stimulating article from McKinsey, on the old problem of relation of IT department with silos.

This split inside IT between "IT demand" and "IT supply" is a (non perfect!) solution. That clarifies too the business owner location, treats better alignment challenges...

En France, les notions de Maître d'ouvrage (dans les silos), de Maître d'ouvrage délégué (souvent dans les fonctions informatiques), de Maître d'oeuvre (SI) permettent ce jeu...

Predictions 2007 again:

On Data Management: I like the last paragraph about the difficulties to make the bridge between ERPs and old applications, in an SOA view...

Nice survey on IT spendings, with an emphasis on "worker-friendly" tools (PDA's, Wifi, ...)

Another view of CIO 2007 priorities:

with this significant hit-parade: ITIL, VOIP, CRM, Storage, Web services, BI

Hi Tech by MIT

Evolution of bandwith on optical fiber

Personal technology: from social networks by telephone to advanced uses of Google map

Intéressant article sur la nécessité de "vendeurs consultants" pour toute vente technologique; Ce glissement n'est pas récent, mais touche désormais tout le monde...

News from KM...

Good news: Knowledge Management still alive.

In spite of vendors appropriation of KM log ( just type "Knowledge Management" on Google and you will find 90% of the connected sites are selling something, products, tools, consulting, ....), fundamentals of KM are surviving.

Recent contributions:

- Relation of KM with semantic web and web2 (with this permanent problem of the balance between "coding the world" and creativity freedom!). See too that nice reaction on this topic

- Thoughts about economy of Knowledge, stimulating contributions and co

- and, and, and, and, and ....

If you want to follow periodically the trends in KM (or anything else!), a good way is to use Google alert , to receive information in your mailbox...

Try too, through Google labs, to see that KM queries are nowadays

- less "fashion" than 3 years before (because we know enough about fundamentals?)

- that queries are mainly asked now by far east and emerging countries (does that mean that they discover now the concepts, or that innovation by knowledge will come more and more from this part of the world?)

BPM, again and again

a recent contribution with some good references...