The X2X World
Ever since my car got heated seats, every winter I wish that it would start to warm the seat 60 seconds before I got in […]
Proverbs & Strategy
Over the past New Year holidays, I came across a Japanese proverb that made me reflect on strategy (yet again) in the world of business: […]
Anatomy of the Virtual Social Network
In previous posts on utilities, I talked about the evolution of common utilities like water, gas, electricity, and lately computers (Part I), and utilities that connect […]
Utilities: Roads & Networks
In Part I of this series on utilities, I talked about consumable resources such as water, gas, electricity, and computing. We looked at their evolution […]
Utilities: Water & Computers
A few years ago we were traveling in Portugal and passed through a beautiful town called Óbidos in central Portugal. Óbidos, an old Roman settlement, […]
Prefab IT and Outsourcing
Recently I wondered about how enterprise IT stacks are morphing from a product stack to a services stack and that we are on a path […]
Business Models: Service vs Technology
In Part III of this series on business models (See Part I, Part II here), let’s look at how technology, hardware or software, and services […]
Prefabricated IT Stack
Lately I have been reflecting on how consumption of technology is shifting from products to services, enabled by a utility business model. I referred to […]
Business Models: Cloud & Consumption
In Part I of this series of posts on business models, on whether we have new business models in the Information Technology sector, we looked at […]
Utility Computing: Point of Arrival
How has Utility Computing evolved over the last few decades? Where do we trace its immediate heritage back to? In a previous post I discussed […]