Web site security is a very important issue to me. I find it frustrating sometimes dealing with people who operate based more on superstition and urban legends than on solid principles. Part 4 is about some strange behavior I have seen in security groups and other insanity.
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A quick review of a second article in Harvard Business Review this month on Complexity. This one is “Learning to Live with Complexity” by Gökçe Sargut and Rita Gunther McGrath. Continue reading
Web site security is a very important issue to me. I find it frustrating sometimes dealing with the “security experts” in IT who operate based more on superstition and urban legends than on solid principles. Part 2 is in response to my meeting with such a “security expert”. Continue reading
Web site security is a very important issue to me. Every application, every information resource, must be built strong enough to put in the Internet, to reliably deliver information to those allowed access, and prevent delivery to those who are not. I find it frustrating sometimes dealing with the “security experts” in IT who operate based more on superstition and urban legends than on solid principles. Part 1 lays down the requirements for a secure web application. Today’s post is prompted by my meeting with such a security expert. Continue reading
For the record, I am not a big fan of the buzz term “Social BPM” but there is no denying that is capturing a lot of mind-share in recent weeks. Still, I am looking forward to the Social BPM TweetJam in tomorrow, on July 21, 11:45 Eastern time, and here is a refresher on recent posts on the topic. Continue reading
Fujitsu Labs has been in recent years putting on technical symposia on various topics, and this week they held one on the subject of Healthcare Technology Convergence Smart Consumers Meet Care Delivery of the Future. Held at the Computer history Museum in Mountain View, it was completely sold out. Continue reading
In working with organizations on their processes, I consistently find that most people are truly surprised to find out how their process are necessarily complicated. Turning the question around, I started wondering “Why is it that we have the feeling that processes should be simple?” This belief is at the center of a key problem people have in process management. It represents a kind of blindness that keeps some from being successful in process management. For now, let me blame it all on Issac Newton. Continue reading
Peter Schooff asked another excellent question today: “Does Strategy always Trump Technology” when it comes to deploying and using a content management system / Enterprise 2.0 system? This is a very good point, but it should be “culture,” not strategy, that does the trumping. Continue reading
Who wants to go to Italy in June? There is a great opportunity to attend the Social Business Forum 2011 which is being held June 8 in Milan, Italy, where a number of thought leaders will be convening to discuss the latest in social business trends. Continue reading
Andrew McAfee spoke today at the IDC Directions 11 event in San Jose as the closing keynote. It is the first time I have seen him speak live, and came away quite impressed. Below are my notes on his talk titled “The State of an Art.” Continue reading
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